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Going to his room one night,
he locked his door and by lamp-light
counted his money, counted his foes.
Then from the table of his heart
he struck off every name but one,
which would be there till…
Contributor:
Nathan Alterman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1965
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Come next year we shall sit on the porch
Count the birds flying north.
Children on holiday will play catch
Between the house and the meadow.
You will see, you will yet see
How good it will be
In…
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Ehud Manor
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1968
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God creates the universe in seven days. Soon after the job’s done, he throws Adam and Eve out of their place for disobeying orders. The couple…
Contributor:
Zoo Eretz Zoo
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1975
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No, we will not have children. Sometimes, with the passing of generations, a generation arises that takes for itself all the wellsprings of life that eternity prepared for an eternity without leaving…
Contributor:
Rachel Katznelson-Shazar
Places:
Tel Aviv, Ottoman Palestine
(Israel, Israel)
Date:
1918
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Eagle! Eagle on your hilltops, eagle flying o’er your hills!
Slow and buoyant—it seems a moment—only floating as it wills;
Floating, sailing through blue seas, hearing notes of sung delight
Filling…
Contributor:
Saul Tschernikovsky
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(Israel, Israel)
Date:
1936
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A gush of joy in the pipe,
The pipes, the arteries of the Negev,
This is the course of the song,
From the faucet to the clod
The water of the depths ascends.
A pump means bread!
Negev, Negev, what’s…
Contributor:
Yehiel Mohar
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1954
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Oh prairie, endless prairie,
The eyes of the herdsmen look out:
Not a bush, not a thistle, not a tree,
A new wind comes to the desert.
Over forlorn expanses the song of the herdsmen
Will sound and…
Contributor:
Yaakov Orland
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1955
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Shepherds had dug a well in the field
but herds of others encircled it.
They left, roaming the mountain trails,
the shepherds who had dug it.
Oh, oh, oh! Desert oases . . .
the lanes of the herd…
Contributor:
Emanuel Zamir
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1956
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One moment of silence, please. If you please. I
would like to say something. He walked
right past me. I could have touched the hem
of his mantle. I did not touch it. Who could have
known what I did…
Contributor:
Natan Zach
Places:
Haifa, Israel
Date:
1960
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Even after the crowd had dispersed, I couldn’t bring myself to leave the Tsirkin farm. The longer I stood watching, the more stagnant the clear water grew, forming a green nightmare of slime before my…
Contributor:
Meir Shalev
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1988