1. Avraham Shlonsky (1900)

Israeli Poet

Russian-born Israeli poet, children's author, editor, and translator known for Rough Stones, Me and Tali in Lhama Country, and other works. He was a recipient of the Bialik Prize, the...

2. Nathan Alterman (1910)

Israeli Poet

Israeli poet and translator best known for a 1941 poetic masterpiece entitled Joy of the Poor. His other works include Plague Poems and City of the Dove.

3. Leah Goldberg (1911)

Israeli Poet

Hebrew-language poet, dramatist, children's author, translator, and recipient of the 1970 Israel Prize for Literature. A member of the Yakhdav literary group, she is known for such works as Al...

4. Yehuda Amichai (1924)

Israeli Poet

German-born Israeli poet, author, and literary prize recipient whose works include Open Closed Open (poems) and Not of This Time, Not of This Place (novel). His literary honors include the...

5. Anda Pinkerfeld Amir (1902)

Israeli Poet

Anda Pinkerfeld Amir was an Israeli poet and author. She is best remembered in Israel as a children's writer.

6. Tuvya Ruebner (1924)

Israeli Poet

Tuvya Ruebner also Rübner is an Israeli poet editor translator and photographer.

7. Galit Hasan-Rokem (1945)

Israeli Poet

Galit Hassan Rokem is a full professor in the Hebrew Literature department in the Hebrew University. Hassan Rokem completed her doctorate at Hebrew University under Prof. Noy is a specialist...

8. Janice Rebibo (Unknow)

Israeli Poet

Janice Silverman Rebibo is an Israeli poet who began writing in Hebrew in the mid-1980s. Rebibo’s poems have been admired for having “a new strength and the kind of courage...

9. Giora Leshem (Unknow)

Israeli Poet

Giora Leshem was an award-winning Israeli poet and translator and one of the founders of the Keshev poetry publishing house. At the time of his death Keshev was the largest...

10. Maya Bejerano (Unknow)

Israeli Poet

Maya Bejerano is an Israeli poet. She graduated from Bar-Ilan University with a B. A. in Literature and Philosophy and from Hebrew University with an M. A. in Library Sciences....

11. Abraham Sutzkever (1913)

Israeli Poet

Abraham Sutzkever was an acclaimed Yiddish poet. The New York Times wrote that Sutzkever was the greatest poet of the Holocaust.

12. Fania Bergstein (1908)

Israeli Poet

Bergstein was a Hebrew poet born in 1908 in Szczuczyn Congress Poland Russian Empire. Fania Bergstein participated in the Zionist youth movement He-Halutz Hatzair. In 1930 she immigrated to British...

13. Amasai Levin (1936)

Israeli Poet

Amasai Levin was an Israeli poet and translator.

14. Aharon Amir (1923)

Israeli Poet

Aharon Amir was an Israeli Hebrew poet a literary translator and a writer.

15. Daliyah Herts (Unknow)

Israeli Poet

Daliyah Herts is an Israeli poet. Daliyah Herts received an MA in Philosophy from Tel Aviv University. She taught Philosophy for several years. She edited and presented literary programs on...

16. Robert Friend (1913)

Israeli Poet

Robert Friend was an American-born poet and translator. After moving to Israel he became a professor of English literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

17. Alexander Penn (1906)

Israeli Poet

Alexander Penn was an Israeli poet.

18. Aharon Shabtai (1939)

Israeli Poet

Aharon Shabtai is one of the Hebrew language's leading poets as well as a translator of Greek drama into Hebrew.

19. Agi Mishol (Unknow)

Israeli Poet

Agi Mishol is an Israeli poet.

20. Reuven Ben-Yosef (1937)

Israeli Poet

Reuven Ben-Yosef was an Israeli poet

21. Amir Gilboa (1917)

Israeli Poet

Amir Gilboa was a Ukraine-born Israeli poet. Gilboa was awarded the Israel Prize for literature in 1982.

22. Admiel Kosman (Unknow)

Israeli Poet

Admiel Kosman is an Israeli poet and professor of Talmud.

23. Ezra Fleischer (1928)

Israeli Poet

Ezra Fleischer was a Romanian-Israeli Hebrew-language poet and philologist.

24. David Shimoni (1891)

Israeli Poet

David Shimoni was an Israeli poet writer and translator. Shimonovitch was born in Babruysk in Belarus to Nissim Shimonovitch and Malka Fridland Although he lived in Ottoman Palestine for...

25. T. Carmi (1925)

Israeli Poet

T. Carmi was an Israeli poet.

26. Natan Yonatan (1923)

Israeli Poet

Natan Yonatan was an Israeli poet. His poems have been translated from Hebrew and published in more than a dozen languages among them: Arabic Bulgarian Chinese Dutch English French German...

27. Pinchas Hacohen Peli (Unknow)

Israeli Poet

Pinchas Hacohen Peli was an Israeli modern Orthodox rabbi essayist poet and scholar of Judaism and Jewish philosophy.

28. Nathan Zach (1930)

Israeli Poet

Nathan Zach is an Israeli poet.

29. Meir Wieseltier (Unknow)

Israeli Poet

Meir Wieseltier is a prize-winning Israeli poet and translator.

30. Dan Armon (Unknow)

Israeli Poet

Dan Armon Israeli poet was born in Jerusalem in 1948 the year Israel gained independence. He studied literature and theater at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has published four...

31. Abba Kovner (1918)

Israeli Poet

Abba Kovner was a Lithuanian Jewish Hebrew poet writer terrorist and partisan leader. He became one of the great poets of modern Israel. He was a cousin of the...

32. Yakir Ben Moshe (1973)

Israeli Poet

Yakir Ben Moshe is an Israeli poet and since 2000 editor of Beit Bialik Tel Aviv. His first book Every Morning at Least One Blond Guy Becomes Bald was published...

33. Margalit Matitiahu (Unknow)

Israeli Poet

Margalit Matitiahu is a poet in Ladino and Hebrew from Israel. After the Holocaust her parents moved to Israel from Thessaloniki Greece where they were Sephardi Jews who were descendants...

34. Yitzhak Lamdan (1899)

Israeli Poet

Yitzhak Lamdan was a Russian-born Israeli poet translator editor and Hebrew columnist.

35. Ya'qub Bilbul (Unknow)

Israeli Poet

Ya'qub Bilbul לב‎; also transliterated Jacob Bilbul and Ya'coub Balbul) was an Iraqi Jewish writer. His literary works were published in Arabic and he achieved recognition as early as 1936...

36. Yair Hurvitz (Unknow)

Israeli Poet

Yair Hurvitz was an Israeli poet who began publishing poetry in the 1960s. His poems mark a return to the tradition of Haim Nachman Bialik. According to literary critic Ariel...

37. Zalman Shneur (1887)

Israeli Poet

Zalman Shneur was a prolific bilingual Yiddish and Hebrew poet and writer.

38. Avoth Yeshurun (Unknow)

Israeli Poet

Avoth Yeshurun also Avot Yeshurun was the pen name of Yehiel Perlmutter an acclaimed modern Hebrew poet.

39. Ayin Hillel (1926)

Israeli Poet

Ayin Hillel was the pen name of Hillel Omer an Israeli poet and children's author.

40. Jacob Fichman (1881)

Israeli Poet

Jacob Fichman also transliterated as Yakov Fichman was an acclaimed Hebrew poet essayist and literary critic.

41. Avraham Ben-Yitzhak (1883)

Israeli Poet

Avraham Ben-Yitzhak was an Israeli Hebrew poet. He was born Avraham Sonne on September 13 1883 in Przemyśl Galicia a region of Eastern Europe which has changed hands throughout history...

42. Olga Kirsch (Unknow)

Israeli Poet

Olga Kirsch was a South African and Israeli poet.

43. Yonatan Ratosh (1908)

Israeli Poet

Uriel Shelach better known by his pen name Yonatan Ratosh was an Israeli poet and the founder of the Canaanite movement.

44. Itzik Manger (1901)

Israeli Poet

Itzik Manger was a prominent Yiddish poet and playwright a self-proclaimed folk bard visionary and 'master tailor' of the written word. A Jew from Bucovina Manger lived in Romania...

45. Simon Halkin (1899)

Israeli Poet

Simon Halkin was an Israeli poet novelist teacher and translator.

46. Yocheved Bat-Miriam (Unknow)

Israeli Poet

Yocheved Bat-Miriam was an Israeli poet. She is unusual among Hebrew poets in expressing nostalgia for the landscapes of the country of her birth. Yocheved migrated to British Palestine...

47. Shulamith Hareven (Unknow)

Israeli Poet

Shulamith Hareven was an Israeli author and essayist. She was born in Warsaw Poland to a Zionist family. She immigrated to the Land of Israel with her parents in 1940....

48. Rachel Boymvol (1914)

Israeli Poet

Rachel Boymvol sometimes spelled Baumvoll or Baumwoll was a poet and translator who wrote in both Yiddish and Russian. Rachel Boymvol was the daughter of Judah-Leib Boimvol a theater...

49. Israel Pincas (1935)

Israeli Poet

Israel Pincas is an Israeli poet.

50. Elisha Porat (1938)

Israeli Poet

Elisha Porat is a Hebrew poet and writer. He has published 19 volumes of fiction and poetry in Hebrew since 1973 and won the 1996 Israel's Prime Minister's Prize for...