Poetry

Wait until life touches you, and the poems appear like bruises - opinion

A poem is a spontaneous burst of emotion; the words come unbidden, and break through all your controlled inhibitions.

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Late poet Amir Gilboa’s rich oeuvre is celebrated at the festival.

Metula's Israeli Poets’ Festival returns to Jerusalem with all disciplinary guns blazing

Typewriter.

Voices Israel anthology 2025: Celebrating English poetry shaped by war, love, and memory

Portrait of the Israeli Writer and poet Tsruya Lahav in Jerusalem. July 31, 2008.

Israeli lyricist Tzruya Lahav dies at 74 after cancer battle


Placing poets among ‘ushpizin’ this Sukkot with Jerusalem poetry festival

The three-night Ushpizin’s Poetry festival in Jerusalem will reintroduce works by Dickinson, Vysotsky, Pessoa and Gouri under the baton of artistic director Benyamin Shvili.

 VICTORIA SEROYA

Jerusalem highlights September 23-29

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 MATAN SACOFSKY presents 50 shades of gold at a new exhibition.

What is special about Elul, other than approaching Rosh Hashanah?

What is special about the month of Elul, other than the fact that it is leading us towards the Days of Awe of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur?

 SERVICE OF the heart: Engaging in prayer in Elijah’s Cave, Haifa.

Famed Israeli poet Gili Haimovich gives poetry reading in Chile

The poet visited Chile in late April and early May of this year. This was Israel’s first cultural visit to Chile since the pandemic and provided an opportunity for face-to-face meetings.

 Poet Gili Haimovich

Amir Akiva Segal: Protest Poetry in Israel

Segal’s new book, Protest Poetry in Israel (due to be published in Hebrew), examines the developments that led to what he calls “the crystallization of Israeli political poetry.”

 Amir Akiva Segal

Israeli memory master Eran Katz dazzles audiences in Thailand


Israeli Poet Ronny Someck’s latest work 'Cristal Blues' translated into French

Pascal Gueta and Ronny Someck in maison de la poesie

On This Day: 70 years since 13 Jews are killed in Night of Murdered Poets

The killing of Soviet Jewish poets was seen as a crackdown against the Jewish Anti-fascist Committee and part of Stalin's increasingly antisemitic policies before his death.

 Albert Einstein (Middle) is seen standing between Yiddish poet Itzik Feffer and Russian Jewish actor Solomon Mikhoels in 1943. Feffer would be killed in the Night of the Murdered Poets, while Mikhoels was killed in what may have been an assassination ordered by Joseph Stalin.

Helen Bar-Lev: 50 years of adventure in Israel

Artist and poet Helen Bar-Lev has reinvented herself in Jerusalem, Safed and the Upper Galilee.

ART BY Helen Bar-Lev: Salant Street as seen from the Ethiopian compound, brown watercolor with brush and pen.

Maybe the real angels are the friends we've made along the way - opinion

How often in our lives have we said: “You’re an angel!” and meant it, to friends who have been there for us when we most needed them?

 YOU CAN meet angels at the supermarket or beauty salon.