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Rest in Peace Haim Gouri
Haim Gouri passed away at the age of ninety four. The poet of the Tashach
(1948) generation, Israel Prize laureate and Palmach fighter. His work
accompanied Israeli society through key moments over decades. He was a
Sabra who bonded with Holocaust survivors, an educator who was an
inspiration to soldiers, Tel-Avivian at birth who lived his whole life in
Jerusalem, and everywhere he put national states of minds and memories
into unforgettable words. “His most famous poems are war songs, and he
hated war in all fibers of his being, a distinct man of peace.” In January
forty eight, when he was sent abroad for the Palmach, he was told of the
death of thirty five of his friends at the Convoy of Thirty Five. The next
day, he wrote ‘Here Our Bodies Lay’ in their memory, a poem that was
later considered to be a founding work in Israeli culture. “He both loved
the land of Israel a strong, turbulent love, and hurt for it. And he taught us
that it isn’t either-or, and I think that this is an incredibly important
message these days.”
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