Shimon Adaf
(Israel, 1972)
Shimon Adaf was born in 1972 in Sderot, a small town in Southern Israel. Adaf’s parents … |
Ayman Agbaria
(Israel, 1968)
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 … |
Aharon Almog
(Mandate Palestine, 1931)
It is certainly time to honor Aharon Almog, as his daughter Eliana suggests in her … |
Nathan Alterman
(Poland, 1910)
Nathan Alterman was born in 1910 in Warsaw, Poland, settled in Tel Aviv in 1925 and … |
Yehuda Amichai
(Germany, 1924–2000)
Yehuda Amichai was selected from our festival archives by 2014 festival poet Alfred … |
Dvora Amir
(Israel, 1948)
Dvora Amir was born in Jerusalem during the 1948 War of Independence. Her parents came … |
Dana Amir
(Israel, 1966)
Dana Amir was born in Haifa in 1966 to a Polish mother and a Bulgarian father, both … |
Shulamit Apfel
(Cyprus, 1948)
Shulamit Apfel was born in a displaced persons camp in Cyprus to Russian and Romanian … |
Adi Assis
(Israel, 1967)
Adi Assis, a poet of both social parody and personal pain, earns his living as a … |
David Avidan
(Mandatory Palestine, 1934–1995)
The concise epithet ‘wordman’ – an invented compound word, in Hebrew, … |
Israel Bar Kohav
(Israel, 1950)
Israel Bar Kohav was born in Israel, the grandchild of Russian immigrants to Ottoman … |
Navit Barel
(Israel, 1977)
Israeli poet Navit Barel, 36, was born in Ashkelon on Israel’s southern coast to … |
Ella Bat-Tsion
(Israel, 1954)
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
(Poland, 1883)
Avraham Ben Yitzhak was born in Przemysl in Galicia, Poland, and died in Israel. |
Alex Ben-Ari
(USSR, 1973)
Alex Ben-Ari began writing poetry as a teenager and was first published after his army … |
Mois Benarroch
(Morocco, 1959)
Mois Benarroch was born in Tetuan, (formerly Spanish) Morocco, in 1959 and came to … |
Yonatan Berg
(Israel, 1981)
About Yonatan Berg’s work, fellow poet Eli Eliahu says that “it is written … |
Lev Berinski
(Israel, 2003)
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 … |
Erez Biton
(Algeria, 1942)
Erez Biton, the 2015 Israel Prize laureate in poetry, was born in Oran, Algeria to … |
T. Carmi
(USA, 1925–1994)
Carmi’s background was international; he absorbed French and English, as well as … |
Raquel Chalfi
(Mandatory Palestine)
The author of nine books of poetry, Raquel Chalfi was born in Israel and lives in Tel … |
Ramy Ditzanny
(Israel, 1950)
With seven books of poetry to date, Ramy Ditzanny's oeuvre includes a wide range of … |
Batsheva Dori-Carlier
(Israel, 1970)
“The phenomenon of poetry can be divided into two types,” says one Israeli … |
Shai Dotan
(Israel, 1969)
Shai Dotan was born in Eilat, the resort town at the southernmost tip of Israel, to … |
Israel Eliraz
(Mandatory Palestine, 1936)
Israel Eliraz was born in Jerusalem in 1936, the fifth generation of his family to live … |
Ayana Erdal
(Israel, 1973)
Ayana Erdal was born (prematurely) in Copenhagen where her Israeli parents were … |
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
(Spain, 1021)
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 … |
Orit Gidali
(Israel, 1974)
In Orit Gidali’s work, ‘The domestic sphere is the stage on which the drama … |
Yael Globerman
(Israel, 1959)
Poet and translator Yael Globerman, who became the new director of the writing program … |
Lea Goldberg
(Germany, 1911–1970)
Lea Goldberg was born in Koenigsberg, East Prussia, (today Kaliningrad in Russia), … |
Chaim Gouri
(Mandatory Palestine, 1923)
Chaim Gouri – poet, writer, journalist and documentary filmmaker – was born in Tel Aviv … |
Tamir Greenberg
(Israel, 1959)
Tamir Greenberg is an architect and serves as head of the architecture and interior … |
Hagit Grossman
(Israel, 1976)
Hagit Grossman wrote her first poem at age six; it was published in a school newspaper. … |
Zali Gurevitch
(USA, 1949)
Poet and anthropologist Zali Gurevitch answers the figure of a famous Hebrew writer who … |
Gili Haimovich
(Israel, 1974)
Expressive arts therapist Gili Haimovich is a bilingual Hebrew-English poet. As a … |
Hedva Harechavi
(Mandatory Palestine, 1941)
Painter and poet Hedva Harechavi was born on Kibbutz Degania B, and has lived since … |
Sharron Hass
(Israel, 1966)
The forces of intellect, myth and emotion vie for attention in the poetry of Sharron … |
Anna Herman
(Israel, 1973)
In early 2015, as this profile was being prepared, poet Anna Herman was awarded the … |
Yair Hurwitz
(Mandatory Palestine, 1941–1988)
Yair Hurwitz was born in Tel Aviv in 1941. He died in 1988 at the tragically early age … |
Liat Kaplan
(Israel, 1956)
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
(Israel, 1957)
Admiel Kosman was born in Haifa to an observant Orthodox Jewish family. His … |
Tamir Lahav-Radlmesser
(Israel, 1953)
Tamir Lahav-Radlmesser was born in Jerusalem in 1953. A graduate of the Bezalel Art … |
Hezy Leskly
(Israel, 1952–1994)
Poet, choreographer and dance critic Hezy Leskly was born in Israel to Czech Holocaust … |
Anat Levin
(Israel, 1973)
Anat Levin was born in Israel to a mother of Russian descent from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, … |
Salman Masalha
(Israel, 1953)
Salman Masalha was born in 1953 in the Arab town of Al-Maghar (in the Galilee, northern … |
Gilad Meiri
(Israel, 1965)
Gilad Meiri was born in Jerusalem to a father of Syrian Jewish descent and a mother … |
Agi Mishol
(Romania, 1946)
Possibly Israel's most popular living poet, Agi Mishol was born to Holocaust … |
Efrat Mishori
(Israel, 1964)
Efrat Mishori, poet, essayist and doctoral student in literature at Tel Aviv … |
Shachar Mario Mordechai
(Israel, 1975)
Shachar Mario Mordechai was born in Haifa and grew up in Kiryat Bialik, a small … |
Dan Pagis
(Romania, 1930–1986)
Dan Pagis was born into a German-speaking family in Radauti, Bukovina in Romania (now … |
Noam Partom
(Israel, 1986)
Poet, translator and performance artist Noam Partom is a graduate of Tel Aviv … |
Haviva Pedaya
(Israel)
Haviva Pedaya, a poet and scholar, is an excellent cartographer of the soul. Her two … |
Israel Pincas
(Bulgaria, 1935)
Born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1935, Pincas lost his father at the age of six and … |
Esther Raab
(Ottoman Palestine, 1894–1981)
Esther Raab (1894-1981) is often touted as Israel’s first native-born woman poet, … |
Rachel
(Russia, 1890)
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 … |
Tuvia Ruebner
(Slovakia, 1924)
Tuvia Ruebner was born into a semi-secular, German-speaking Jewish family (his father … |
Rami Saari
(Israel, 1963)
Rami Saari was born in Petah Tikva, Israel, and spent his childhood in Argentina and in … |
Aharon Shabtai
(Mandatory Palestine, 1939)
Aharon Shabtai was born in 1939 in Tel Aviv and spent his childhood on Kibbutz … |
Nano Shabtai
(Israel, 1975)
Poet, dramatist and director Nano Shabtai was born in the small, secular center of … |
Yudit Shahar
(Israel, 1959)
If Yudit Shahar may be compared to any other poet, it is to the American Philip Levine, … |
Ilan Sheinfeld
(Israel, 1960)
Writer and Gay activist Ilan Sheinfeld was born in Tel Aviv. He is one of the first Gay … |
Lyor Shternberg
(Israel, 1967)
The poetry of Lyor Shternberg “deflects attention to the dark stains of reality, … |
Benjamin Shvili
(Israel, 1954)
Writer Benjamin Shvili is hard to classify. He is, according to scholar Nili Gold, a … |
Gali-Dana Singer
(Russia, 1962)
Painting by: Nekoda Singer Gali-Dana Singer, born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in … |
Aryeh Sivan
(Mandatory Palestine, 1929–2015)
Aryeh Sivan’s poetry has been said to evoke a sense of shared public experience … |
Ronny Someck
(Iraq, 1951)
Ronny Someck’s poetry, which has both a local and a universal flavor, has the ability … |
David Vogel
(Russia, 1891–1944)
“I love him very much,” says Lilach Netanel, the scholar who discovered the … |
Yona Wallach
(Mandatory Palestine, 1944)
Yona Wallach, who was born in Tel Aviv in 1944 and died of breast cancer in 1985, is … |
Nathan Wasserman
(Israel, 1962)
Nathan Wasserman, born in Jerusalem in 1962, lives in Jerusalem and teaches Assyriology … |
Rafi Weichert
(Israel, 1964)
It is no wonder at all that the city of Tel Aviv crowned Rafi Weichert the most … |
Dorit Weisman
(Israel, 1950)
Poet and translator Dorit Weisman was born April 1950 in Kfar-Saba (Israel) and lives … |
Julia Wiener
(USSR, unknown)
For the first time in the history of PI's Israeli domain, we are publishing a poet … |
Meir Wieseltier
(Russia, 1941)
Meir Wieseltier was born in Moscow in 1941, just before the Germans invaded Russia. He … |
Avoth Yeshurun
(Ukraine, 1904)
Avoth Yeshurun was born in the Ukraine in 1904. He was raised in a Chassidic home and … |
Natan Zach
(Germany, 1930)
Natan Zach was born in 1930 in Berlin to a German father and an Italian mother; he … |
Nurit Zarchi
(Mandatory Palestine, 1941)
Nurit Zarchi was born in 1941 in Jerusalem. Her father was an author (Israel Zarchi) … |
Anat Zecharya
(Israel, 1974)
Anat Zecharya is an outspoken young poet who writes forthrightly about … |