Poetry

U2 releases EP featuring poem by Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai

Israel Prize winner Yehuda Amichai, who died in 2000, is considered by many to have been the greatest modern Israeli poet.

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.
BRITISH AUTHOR and conservative political commentator Douglas Murray gestures as he speaks on stage during an evening against the rise of anti-semitism in Europe, at the Theatre Antoine, in Paris on June 3, 2024.

Conservative British pro-Israel commentator Douglas Murray joins Yeshiva University

Kaynar-Kissinger and his fellow actor brother, Doron, (L) put on a Holocaust-related stage production in Germany.

Writing for love’s sake: The poetic world of Gad Kaynar-Kissinger - interview

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks with US Vice President JD Vance (not pictured) during the inaugural Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) summit in Washington, DC, US, November 12, 2025.

Jilted lover releases erotic poetry allegedly written by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.


The legacy of Zelda: Israel's legendary poet - opinion

Zelda was a devout Jewess, a cousin of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe. Her full name was Zelda Shneerson Mishkowsky, but she only ever went by Zelda.

 ZELDA IN her youth.

Jerusalem highlights June 23-29

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 POET YONA WALACH

NASA is sending a probe to Europa – and you can send your name with it

This is thanks to NASA's new Message in a Bottle initiative, the public can have their name engraved on a microchip in its Europa Clipper spacecraft as it heads to Jupiter's moon.

 The puzzling, fascinating surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa looms large in this newly-reprocessed color view, made from images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s.

US poet laureate dedicates ode to Europa for NASA mission to Jupiter's icy moon

Limon's "Poem for Europa" is less a meditation on science - though its first line seems to allude to a rocket launch - as it is an ode to nature and the awe it can inspire in humankind.

Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet, is seen alongside its moons (illustrative).

Israeli murals in Ukraine send a message of hope and identity


Florida mom behind poem restriction says sorry for promoting 'Elders of Zion'

The Florida mom stated that she has not read the entirety of the books and poems she has asked to remove from the school library.

 The title pages of a Nazi-published version of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," an antisemitic text, circa 1935.

Ode to Family Dee - a poem

A poem written for the Dee family, who lost mother Lucy and daughters Maia and Rina to a terrorist attack.

 A memorial image made for Lucy, Rina and Maia Dee.

Israeli artists open poetry slam in Cyprus

 Muhammad Aguani and Yonatan Kunda

Israeli poet, songwriter and cultural icon Yehonatan Geffen laid to rest

The funeral was attended by Geffen's family, including his son Aviv, and friends such as opposition head Yair Lapid.

Friends and family members mourn during the funeral ceremony of Israeli author Yehonatan Geffen in Nahalal cemetery, northern Israel, April 21, 2023

‘Israel grew up on his songs’: Yehonatan Geffen dies at 76

Known as an inseparable soundtrack of the Israel experience, he wrote both for adults and children.

YEHONATAN GEFFEN