Poetry

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

War, love and memory intertwine in Voices Israel’s 2025 anthology, a powerful collection of global poetry shaped by Oct. 7 and beyond.

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

Israeli lyricist Tzruya Lahav dies at 74 after cancer battle

The Writer's wedding invitation from 1955, to take place in Melbourne’s St. Kilda  Synagogue.

Wedding invitation from 1955: A stroll through cherished memories - opinion

Irish singer of U2 Bono poses during a photocall for the film "Bono: Stories of Surrender" at the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 17, 2025.

U2 releases EP featuring poem by Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai


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.

Palestinian org.: Israeli poem read by Pelosi 'romanticizes Israeli settlement'

American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) called the Israeli poet a romanticizer of an "illegal Israeli settlement" on an "ethnically cleansed Palestinian village." The song is a war anthem from the 80s.

 US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reacts to the overturning of Roe v Wade during her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, June 24, 2022.

Nancy Pelosi reads Israeli poem in response to Roe v. Wade reversal

This is not the first time that the US Speaker has quoted Ehud Manor's poem.

 Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi at the Knesset, February 16, 2022