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Celebrated poet, writer and film-maker, Haim Gouri, dies aged 94

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Published: 1 February 2018

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Prolific writer, journalist, and documentary filmmaker, the dean of Palmach-era Hebrew verse, Gouri gave a voice to Israel's pain and pride

Haim Gouri, veteran Israeli war poet, dies at 94 (Times of Israel)
Haim Gouri, the veteran Israeli poet, novelist, journalist, and filmmaker who over a 70-year career gave voice to some of the country’s most emblematic and tumultuous moments, died Wednesday at 94.

Born in Tel Aviv in 1923, Gouri joined the pre-state Palmach paramilitary group in 1941, participating in a number of operations against British Mandate forces stations in then-Palestine and becoming one of the first recruits to complete the elite forces’ commanders course.

Israel Prize laureate Haim Gouri dies at 94 (Jerusalem Post)
It was ironic that cultural icon and Israel Prize laureate Haim Gouri, a celebrated poet, journalist, author and filmmaker, should die in the week of International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Bab el Wad: A newly published translation from the late, great Israeli poet (Haaretz)

Photo: Haim Gouri at his home in Jerusalem in 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
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