Israel - Poetry International

Shimon Adaf was born in 1972 in Sderot, a small town in Southern Israel. Adaf’s parents …

Palestinian-Israeli poet and playwriter Ayman Agbaria was born in Umm Al-Fahm (Israel) …

Taha Muhammad Ali

(Mandatory Palestine, 1931–2011)

Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in a village in Galilee [then Saffuriya in Mandatory …

(Mandate Palestine, 1931)

It is certainly time to honor Aharon Almog, as his daughter Eliana suggests in her …

Nathan Alterman

Nathan Alterman was born in 1910 in Warsaw, Poland, settled in Tel Aviv in 1925 and …

(Germany, 1924–2000)

Yehuda Amichai was selected from our festival archives by 2014 festival poet Alfred …

Dvora Amir was born in Jerusalem during the 1948 War of Independence. Her parents came …

Dana Amir was born in Haifa in 1966 to a Polish mother and a Bulgarian father, both …

Shulamit Apfel was born in a displaced persons camp in Cyprus to Russian and Romanian …

Adi Assis, a poet of both social parody and personal pain, earns his living as a …

(Mandatory Palestine, 1934–1995)

The concise epithet ‘wordman’ – an invented compound word, in Hebrew, …

Israel Bar Kohav

Israel Bar Kohav was born in Israel, the grandchild of Russian immigrants to Ottoman …

Israeli poet Navit Barel, 36, was born in Ashkelon on Israel’s southern coast to …

Ella Bat-Tsion began to publish her poetry, under the name Gabriella Elisha, at the …

Miri Ben Simhon

(France, 1950–1996)

Miri Ben Simhon’s poetry faces Mizrahi women’s lives in Israel straight …

Avraham Ben Yitzhak

Avraham Ben Yitzhak was born in Przemysl in Galicia, Poland, and died in Israel.

Alex Ben-Ari began writing poetry as a teenager and was first published after his army …

(Morocco, 1959)

Mois Benarroch was born in Tetuan, (formerly Spanish) Morocco, in 1959 and came to …

Lev Berinski was born in Romania. His family fled east during the war and in 1945 …

Chaim Nachman Bialik

(Ukraine, 1873)

Israel’s national poet, Chaim Nachman Bialik, combined in a unique way his own wish for …

(Algeria, 1942)

Erez Biton, the 2015 Israel Prize laureate in poetry, was born in Oran, Algeria to …

(USA, 1925–1994)

Carmi’s background was international; he absorbed French and English, as well as …

(Mandatory Palestine)

The author of nine books of poetry, Raquel Chalfi was born in Israel and lives in Tel …

With seven books of poetry to date, Ramy Ditzanny's oeuvre includes a wide range of …

Shai Dotan was born in Eilat, the resort town at the southernmost tip of Israel, to …

‘I guess I’m obsessed with words’, poet Eli Eliahu told American …

(Mandatory Palestine, 1936)

Israel Eliraz was born in Jerusalem in 1936, the fifth generation of his family to live …

Ayana Erdal was born (prematurely) in Copenhagen where her Israeli parents were …

Esther Ettinger

(Mandatory Palestine, 1941)

Esther Ettinger’s work, an editor has remarked, “is infused with her own …

Tahel Frosh has achieved local media notoriety by writing poems about all too common …

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Solomon Ibn Gabirol, one of the greatest liturgical poets of the Middle Ages, was a …

Mordechai Geldman

(Germany, 1946)

Mordechai Geldman was born in a displaced persons camp in Munich in 1946 …

In Orit Gidali’s work, ‘The domestic sphere is the stage on which the drama …

“Hadas Gilad’s book is filled with kisses”, writes her contemporary, …

Poet and translator Yael Globerman, who became the new director of the writing program …

(Germany, 1911–1970)

Lea Goldberg was born in Koenigsberg, East Prussia, (today Kaliningrad in Russia), …

(Mandatory Palestine, 1923)

Chaim Gouri – poet, writer, journalist and documentary filmmaker – was born in Tel Aviv …

Tamir Greenberg

Tamir Greenberg is an architect and serves as head of the architecture and interior …

Hagit Grossman wrote her first poem at age six; it was published in a school newspaper. …

Poet and anthropologist Zali Gurevitch answers the figure of a famous Hebrew writer who …

Expressive arts therapist Gili Haimovich is a bilingual Hebrew-English poet. As a …

Israel Har was born in 1932, in the city of Chelm in Poland.

Hedva Harechavi

(Mandatory Palestine, 1941)

Painter and poet Hedva Harechavi was born on Kibbutz Degania B, and has lived since …

The forces of intellect, myth and emotion vie for attention in the poetry of Sharron …

In early 2015, as this profile was being prepared, poet Anna Herman was awarded the …

(Mandatory Palestine, 1941–1988)

Yair Hurwitz was born in Tel Aviv in 1941. He died in 1988 at the tragically early age …

Liat Kaplan, born on a kibbutz and today a resident of Tel Aviv, is a poet, creative …

Yonadav Kaploun

(Australia, 1963)

Yonadav Kaploun was born in Melbourne and moved to Israel as a child with his parents, …

Admiel Kosman was born in Haifa to an observant Orthodox Jewish family. His …

Tamir Lahav-Radlmesser

Tamir Lahav-Radlmesser was born in Jerusalem in 1953. A graduate of the Bezalel Art …

(Israel, 1952–1994)

Poet, choreographer and dance critic Hezy Leskly was born in Israel to Czech Holocaust …

Anat Levin was born in Israel to a mother of Russian descent from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, …

Salman Masalha was born in 1953 in the Arab town of Al-Maghar (in the Galilee, northern …

Gilad Meiri was born in Jerusalem to a father of Syrian Jewish descent and a mother …

The titles of Oreet Meital’s volumes of verse – Problems of Balance …

When Rivka Miriam’s two-volume Collected Poems was issued in 2011, …

(Romania, 1946)

Possibly Israel's most popular living poet, Agi Mishol was born to Holocaust …

Efrat Mishori, poet, essayist and doctoral student in literature at Tel Aviv …

Shachar Mario Mordechai

Shachar Mario Mordechai was born in Haifa and grew up in Kiryat Bialik, a small …

Writer and artist Nawal Naffaa' was born in the northern Israeli village of Beit …

Tal Nitzán is an award-winning poet, editor and a major Israeli translator of …

A poet who combines the mysteries of the spirit with the joys of the flesh, curious …

Poet and musician “Daniel Oz has a charming awkwardness about him”, …

(Romania, 1930–1986)

Dan Pagis was born into a German-speaking family in Radauti, Bukovina in Romania (now …

Poet, translator and performance artist Noam Partom is a graduate of Tel Aviv …

Haviva Pedaya, a poet and scholar, is an excellent cartographer of the soul. Her two …

(Bulgaria, 1935)

Born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1935, Pincas lost his father at the age of six and …

(Ottoman Palestine, 1894–1981)

Esther Raab (1894-1981) is often touted as Israel’s first native-born woman poet, …

The poet Rachel`s life has taken on mythic proportions for Israel`s reading public.

Dahlia Ravikovitch

(Mandatory Palestine, 1936)

Dahlia Ravikovitch was born in Ramat Gan, Israel in 1936. Her language, rich inner life …

(Slovakia, 1924)

Tuvia Ruebner was born into a semi-secular, German-speaking Jewish family (his father …

Rami Saari was born in Petah Tikva, Israel, and spent his childhood in Argentina and in …

(Mandatory Palestine, 1939)

Aharon Shabtai was born in 1939 in Tel Aviv and spent his childhood on Kibbutz …

Poet, dramatist and director Nano Shabtai was born in the small, secular center of …

If Yudit Shahar may be compared to any other poet, it is to the American Philip Levine, …

Writer and Gay activist Ilan Sheinfeld was born in Tel Aviv. He is one of the first Gay …

Lyor Shternberg

The poetry of Lyor Shternberg “deflects attention to the dark stains of reality, …

Benjamin Shvili

Writer Benjamin Shvili is hard to classify. He is, according to scholar Nili Gold, a …

Gali-Dana Singer

Painting by: Nekoda Singer Gali-Dana Singer, born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in …

(Mandatory Palestine, 1929–2015)

Aryeh Sivan’s poetry has been said to evoke a sense of shared public experience …

Ronny Someck’s poetry, which has both a local and a universal flavor, has the ability …

(Russia, 1891–1944)

“I love him very much,” says Lilach Netanel, the scholar who discovered the …

(Mandatory Palestine, 1944)

Yona Wallach, who was born in Tel Aviv in 1944 and died of breast cancer in 1985, is …

Nathan Wasserman

Nathan Wasserman, born in Jerusalem in 1962, lives in Jerusalem and teaches Assyriology …

It is no wonder at all that the city of Tel Aviv crowned Rafi Weichert the most …

Poet and translator Dorit Weisman was born April 1950 in Kfar-Saba (Israel) and lives …

(USSR, unknown)

For the first time in the history of PI's Israeli domain, we are publishing a poet …

Meir Wieseltier

Meir Wieseltier was born in Moscow in 1941, just before the Germans invaded Russia. He …

(Ukraine, 1904)

Avoth Yeshurun was born in the Ukraine in 1904. He was raised in a Chassidic home and …

(Germany, 1930)

Natan Zach was born in 1930 in Berlin to a German father and an Italian mother; he …

(Mandatory Palestine, 1941)

Nurit Zarchi was born in 1941 in Jerusalem. Her father was an author (Israel Zarchi) …

Anat Zecharya is an outspoken young poet who writes forthrightly about …

(Ukraine, 1914)

A spiritual poet who attracted secular readers too, Zelda was born in 1914 in …

Ariel Zinder was born in 1973 in Berkeley, California, where his Israeli father was …

New Poet Laureate of the Netherlands

‘Her sharp mind, creative personality and linguistic sensitivity make her the …

Poetry International review on 2016

Poetry International opened 2017 with the exciting work of Belgian writer and …

Hannah van Binsbergen

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Israel - Poetry International

Shimon Adaf was born in 1972 in Sderot, a small town in Southern Israel. Adaf’s parents …

Palestinian-Israeli poet and playwriter Ayman Agbaria was born in Umm Al-Fahm (Israel) …

Taha Muhammad Ali

(Mandatory Palestine, 1931–2011)

Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in a village in Galilee [then Saffuriya in Mandatory …

(Mandate Palestine, 1931)

It is certainly time to honor Aharon Almog, as his daughter Eliana suggests in her …

Nathan Alterman

Nathan Alterman was born in 1910 in Warsaw, Poland, settled in Tel Aviv in 1925 and …

(Germany, 1924–2000)

Yehuda Amichai was selected from our festival archives by 2014 festival poet Alfred …

Dvora Amir was born in Jerusalem during the 1948 War of Independence. Her parents came …

Dana Amir was born in Haifa in 1966 to a Polish mother and a Bulgarian father, both …

Shulamit Apfel was born in a displaced persons camp in Cyprus to Russian and Romanian …

Adi Assis, a poet of both social parody and personal pain, earns his living as a …

(Mandatory Palestine, 1934–1995)

The concise epithet ‘wordman’ – an invented compound word, in Hebrew, …

Israel Bar Kohav

Israel Bar Kohav was born in Israel, the grandchild of Russian immigrants to Ottoman …

Israeli poet Navit Barel, 36, was born in Ashkelon on Israel’s southern coast to …

Ella Bat-Tsion began to publish her poetry, under the name Gabriella Elisha, at the …

Miri Ben Simhon

(France, 1950–1996)

Miri Ben Simhon’s poetry faces Mizrahi women’s lives in Israel straight …

Avraham Ben Yitzhak

Avraham Ben Yitzhak was born in Przemysl in Galicia, Poland, and died in Israel.

Alex Ben-Ari began writing poetry as a teenager and was first published after his army …

(Morocco, 1959)

Mois Benarroch was born in Tetuan, (formerly Spanish) Morocco, in 1959 and came to …

Lev Berinski was born in Romania. His family fled east during the war and in 1945 …

Chaim Nachman Bialik

(Ukraine, 1873)

Israel’s national poet, Chaim Nachman Bialik, combined in a unique way his own wish for …

(Algeria, 1942)

Erez Biton, the 2015 Israel Prize laureate in poetry, was born in Oran, Algeria to …

(USA, 1925–1994)

Carmi’s background was international; he absorbed French and English, as well as …

(Mandatory Palestine)

The author of nine books of poetry, Raquel Chalfi was born in Israel and lives in Tel …

With seven books of poetry to date, Ramy Ditzanny's oeuvre includes a wide range of …

Shai Dotan was born in Eilat, the resort town at the southernmost tip of Israel, to …

‘I guess I’m obsessed with words’, poet Eli Eliahu told American …

(Mandatory Palestine, 1936)

Israel Eliraz was born in Jerusalem in 1936, the fifth generation of his family to live …

Ayana Erdal was born (prematurely) in Copenhagen where her Israeli parents were …

Esther Ettinger

(Mandatory Palestine, 1941)

Esther Ettinger’s work, an editor has remarked, “is infused with her own …

Tahel Frosh has achieved local media notoriety by writing poems about all too common …

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Solomon Ibn Gabirol, one of the greatest liturgical poets of the Middle Ages, was a …

Mordechai Geldman

(Germany, 1946)

Mordechai Geldman was born in a displaced persons camp in Munich in 1946 …

In Orit Gidali’s work, ‘The domestic sphere is the stage on which the drama …

“Hadas Gilad’s book is filled with kisses”, writes her contemporary, …

Poet and translator Yael Globerman, who became the new director of the writing program …

(Germany, 1911–1970)

Lea Goldberg was born in Koenigsberg, East Prussia, (today Kaliningrad in Russia), …

(Mandatory Palestine, 1923)

Chaim Gouri – poet, writer, journalist and documentary filmmaker – was born in Tel Aviv …

Tamir Greenberg

Tamir Greenberg is an architect and serves as head of the architecture and interior …

Hagit Grossman wrote her first poem at age six; it was published in a school newspaper. …

Poet and anthropologist Zali Gurevitch answers the figure of a famous Hebrew writer who …

Expressive arts therapist Gili Haimovich is a bilingual Hebrew-English poet. As a …

Israel Har was born in 1932, in the city of Chelm in Poland.

Hedva Harechavi

(Mandatory Palestine, 1941)

Painter and poet Hedva Harechavi was born on Kibbutz Degania B, and has lived since …

The forces of intellect, myth and emotion vie for attention in the poetry of Sharron …

In early 2015, as this profile was being prepared, poet Anna Herman was awarded the …

(Mandatory Palestine, 1941–1988)

Yair Hurwitz was born in Tel Aviv in 1941. He died in 1988 at the tragically early age …

Liat Kaplan, born on a kibbutz and today a resident of Tel Aviv, is a poet, creative …

Yonadav Kaploun

(Australia, 1963)

Yonadav Kaploun was born in Melbourne and moved to Israel as a child with his parents, …

Admiel Kosman was born in Haifa to an observant Orthodox Jewish family. His …

Tamir Lahav-Radlmesser

Tamir Lahav-Radlmesser was born in Jerusalem in 1953. A graduate of the Bezalel Art …

(Israel, 1952–1994)

Poet, choreographer and dance critic Hezy Leskly was born in Israel to Czech Holocaust …

Anat Levin was born in Israel to a mother of Russian descent from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, …

Salman Masalha was born in 1953 in the Arab town of Al-Maghar (in the Galilee, northern …

Gilad Meiri was born in Jerusalem to a father of Syrian Jewish descent and a mother …

The titles of Oreet Meital’s volumes of verse – Problems of Balance …

When Rivka Miriam’s two-volume Collected Poems was issued in 2011, …

(Romania, 1946)

Possibly Israel's most popular living poet, Agi Mishol was born to Holocaust …

Efrat Mishori, poet, essayist and doctoral student in literature at Tel Aviv …

Shachar Mario Mordechai

Shachar Mario Mordechai was born in Haifa and grew up in Kiryat Bialik, a small …

Writer and artist Nawal Naffaa' was born in the northern Israeli village of Beit …

Tal Nitzán is an award-winning poet, editor and a major Israeli translator of …

A poet who combines the mysteries of the spirit with the joys of the flesh, curious …

Poet and musician “Daniel Oz has a charming awkwardness about him”, …

(Romania, 1930–1986)

Dan Pagis was born into a German-speaking family in Radauti, Bukovina in Romania (now …

Poet, translator and performance artist Noam Partom is a graduate of Tel Aviv …

Haviva Pedaya, a poet and scholar, is an excellent cartographer of the soul. Her two …

(Bulgaria, 1935)

Born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1935, Pincas lost his father at the age of six and …

(Ottoman Palestine, 1894–1981)

Esther Raab (1894-1981) is often touted as Israel’s first native-born woman poet, …

The poet Rachel`s life has taken on mythic proportions for Israel`s reading public.

Dahlia Ravikovitch

(Mandatory Palestine, 1936)

Dahlia Ravikovitch was born in Ramat Gan, Israel in 1936. Her language, rich inner life …

(Slovakia, 1924)

Tuvia Ruebner was born into a semi-secular, German-speaking Jewish family (his father …

Rami Saari was born in Petah Tikva, Israel, and spent his childhood in Argentina and in …

(Mandatory Palestine, 1939)

Aharon Shabtai was born in 1939 in Tel Aviv and spent his childhood on Kibbutz …

Poet, dramatist and director Nano Shabtai was born in the small, secular center of …

If Yudit Shahar may be compared to any other poet, it is to the American Philip Levine, …

Writer and Gay activist Ilan Sheinfeld was born in Tel Aviv. He is one of the first Gay …

Lyor Shternberg

The poetry of Lyor Shternberg “deflects attention to the dark stains of reality, …

Benjamin Shvili

Writer Benjamin Shvili is hard to classify. He is, according to scholar Nili Gold, a …

Gali-Dana Singer

Painting by: Nekoda Singer Gali-Dana Singer, born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in …

(Mandatory Palestine, 1929–2015)

Aryeh Sivan’s poetry has been said to evoke a sense of shared public experience …

Ronny Someck’s poetry, which has both a local and a universal flavor, has the ability …

(Russia, 1891–1944)

“I love him very much,” says Lilach Netanel, the scholar who discovered the …

(Mandatory Palestine, 1944)

Yona Wallach, who was born in Tel Aviv in 1944 and died of breast cancer in 1985, is …

Nathan Wasserman

Nathan Wasserman, born in Jerusalem in 1962, lives in Jerusalem and teaches Assyriology …

It is no wonder at all that the city of Tel Aviv crowned Rafi Weichert the most …

Poet and translator Dorit Weisman was born April 1950 in Kfar-Saba (Israel) and lives …

(USSR, unknown)

For the first time in the history of PI's Israeli domain, we are publishing a poet …

Meir Wieseltier

Meir Wieseltier was born in Moscow in 1941, just before the Germans invaded Russia. He …

(Ukraine, 1904)

Avoth Yeshurun was born in the Ukraine in 1904. He was raised in a Chassidic home and …

(Germany, 1930)

Natan Zach was born in 1930 in Berlin to a German father and an Italian mother; he …

(Mandatory Palestine, 1941)

Nurit Zarchi was born in 1941 in Jerusalem. Her father was an author (Israel Zarchi) …

Anat Zecharya is an outspoken young poet who writes forthrightly about …

(Ukraine, 1914)

A spiritual poet who attracted secular readers too, Zelda was born in 1914 in …

Ariel Zinder was born in 1973 in Berkeley, California, where his Israeli father was …

New Poet Laureate of the Netherlands

‘Her sharp mind, creative personality and linguistic sensitivity make her the …

Poetry International review on 2016

Poetry International opened 2017 with the exciting work of Belgian writer and …

Hannah van Binsbergen

Poetry International

• Editors & Translators (Israel)

• Lisa Katz (Current editor)

Subscribe to the newsletter

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