Shamir one of the last of the old Hebron Jewish community, reads from "Keeper of the Last Mosque" by his father, Yitzhaq Shami. 1888 births 1949 deaths 21st-century Palestinian poets Israeli Arab Jews Israeli Arab writers Israeli male short story writers Israeli people of Spanish-Jewish descent Israeli people of Syrian-Jewish descent Israeli short story writers Sephardi Jews in Mandatory Palestine Jewish writers Judeo-Arabic writers Palestinian male poets Palestinian short story writers People from Hebron Sephardi Jews in Ottoman Palestine