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1966 Nobel laureate, S.Y. Agnon spent most of his life in Israel.

Born in Buczacz, Galicia, in Summer 1887 he arrived in Jaffa in Spring 1908. Between 1912-1924 he "sojourned" in Germany. In 1924 he returned to Jerusalem where he resided until his death in 1970.

His house in Jerusalem's Talpiot neighborhood is a museum and study center dedicated to the greatest modern Hebrew author.

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