In 1949, he published the novella Khirbet Khizeh, in which he described the expulsion of Palestinian Arabs from their village by the IDF during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
The actors who played the soldiers who expelled the villagers in the TV drama "Khirbet Hiz'ah". From left to right: Amos Tal Shir | Khirbet Sharta | Khirbet Khizeh |