Shifra Shifman Shmuelevitch died in 2012, at the age of 80, and was buried at the Yarkon Cemetery alongside her husband.
In 1964 she married the ex- Lehi member Matityahu Shmuelevitch. She taught creative writing for high school students, and Ancient Near East literature at the Tel Aviv University and the Levinsky College of Education Shifra was on the management board of the defunct voluntary association "Amanut La’am" she established "The Center for Arab Children's Literature" in collaboration with The Arab Academic College for Education in Israel – Haifa, under the leadership of Naim Araidi. In addition, she studied Kabbalah, Jewish philosophy, Hebrew literature, Sumerian and Akkadian. She studied at the Talpiot high school gymnasium for girls in Tel Aviv, and graduated from the Levinsky Seminar for Teachers in Jaffa.
Her father was among the first new age Jewish teachers in The Land of Israel. Shin Shifra, the fifth of eight children, was born in Tel Aviv and raised in Bnei Brak, in a veteran Jerusalemite family. שפרה) is the pen name of Shifra Shifman Shmuelevitch (1931 – 9 February 2012), a poet, translator, writer, editor and literary academic.
Tchernichovsky Prize, Zeev Prize for Children's Literature, The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture, Brenner Prize, President's Prize for Literature (Israel), Yehuda Amichai Poetry Prize, Hans Christian Andersen Award The Epic of Gilgamesh (adaptation for children)
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