Speak to Me with Flowers

Poet, composer, and playwright Uri Assaf was born on Kibbutz Kefar Menaḥem. He began writing poems in his youth. Assaf served in the IDF as an intelligence officer and fought in the Sinai campaign in 1956. After his army service, he studied education. When working as a teacher, he began writing plays that were performed by the kibbutz children. He left the kibbutz at the age of forty.