Limor Schreibman-Sharir


Limor Shreibman-Sharir is an Israeli writer and physician. She was Miss Israel in 1973 and placed fifth in the Miss Universe pageant.

Biography

Limor Schreibman was born and grew up in Tel Aviv, the daughter of Eliezer Schreibman, a school principal.
In 1972, after graduating from Tichon Ironi Alef high school, Schreibman was drafted into the Israeli army. In 1973, she won Israel's beauty queen contest. She was sent as a contestant to the Miss Universe contest held in Greece in 1973, where she placed fifth. When the competition was over, she returned to the IDF as a clerk for General Shmuel Gonen who had been promoted to Southern Command of the Israel Defense Forces.

Medical career

After completion of her military service, she began to study medicine at Sapienza University of Rome in Italy. Later, she transferred to the Sackler Faculty of medicine of Tel Aviv University and graduated with a medical degree. Her dissertation was presented to an international conference in New York and subsequently published in The Journal of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery.
Schreibman did her internship at Sheba Medical Center, where she worked for several years. Today she is a member of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel.
Since 2010–2011, she has been the coordinator of a special course at Tel Aviv University's School of Medicine on "literature and medicine." Schreibman is a member in the Israeli Organization for Medical Education.

Literary career

Sharir was a prose advisor for Carmel publishing house. She also sits on the Israeli Council for Culture and Arts in Ministry of Culture and Sport. She is a member of the editing board of "Moznayim" – the monthly Magazine of Hebrew Writers Association in Israel and the editor of culture and medicine section of the "Reshet Refua" website.
Schreibman-Sharir's book "God and Elvira" published in 2005 in Hebrew, was translated into Italian and published in Italy in 2012.

Published works