Yehuda Amichai

Grapevine July 5, 2024: Getting the green light

Movers and shakers in Israeli Society.

 AT HEBREW Book Week, poet Yehuda Amichai (pictured in 1986) was meant to be the focus.
 ISRAEL’S GREAT modern poet, 1986.

A century of poetry: Lauded poet Yehuda Amichai gets a posthumous centenary salute or two

 Jonathan Pollard attends the funeral of his wife Esther in Jerusalem. Esther died of COVID complications at the age of 68, January 31, 2022.

Grapevine: Giving Pollard a voice

 ISRAEL’S GREAT modern poet, 1986.

Remembering Yehuda Amichai, Israel's great acclaimed poet


What is it about the beauty of Jerusalem?

When I came to Jerusalem 50 years ago, I was afraid to be an immigrant in a new city. It took many, many years before I felt part of the landscape, one of the passing parade.

Jewish worshipers celebrate Jerusalem Day at the Western Wall in 2019.

Jerusalem: City of prayers and dreams

Nothing here is trivial. Everything one does is significant. We feel the full weight of history as we tread stones once trodden by kings and martyrs and warriors.

Jewish worshipers celebrate Jerusalem Day at the Western Wall in 2019.

JLM events will commemorate 20-year anniversary of Yehuda Amichai's death

On September 25 at 10 a.m., there will be a tour of places in Jerusalem that were important to Amichai’s work.

Yehuda Amichai in 1962.