Zev Birger, the longtime director of the Jerusalem International Book Fair, died yesterday of injuries when he was hit by a motorcycle after a concert at the Jerusalem Theater on Saturday, May 28.
Before heading the book fair, Birger held several positions in the Israeli government and was head of the Paris office of ICM/Film Marketing. His memoir, No Time for Patience: My Road from Kaunas to Jerusalem: A Memoir of a Holocaust Survivor, was published here by Newmarket Press.