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Yonathan Geffen - Biography

Yonathan Geffen is born on February 22nd, 1947, in the agricultural

colony Nahalal to a deeply rooted and ideological family. The brother of

Aviva, Yonathan’s mother, is Moshe Dayan, who was an important

Chief of Staff in the IDF.

Nahalal is a colony with a special ideology - the people in Nahalal

believe in hard work, socialism and agriculture, and Yonathan Geffen

doesn’t always agree with the ideology of Nahalal. Yonathan Geffen is

an individualist and after the army he moves from Nahalal to Tel Aviv.

In Tel Aviv he meets the famous poet Natan Alterman, who reads the

poems that Yonathan Geffem writes, likes them and encourages

Yonathan to publish them. Geffen, who loses his mother in his twenties,

sees in Alterman an important figure that gives him motivation to write

and publish.

Geffen flies to London to study and when he returns to Tel Aviv he

sings in the “Lul” band with famous Israeli singers like Arik Einstein,

Shalom Hanoch, Uri zohar and others. In Tel Aviv he meets Nurit and

marries her. Yonathan and Nurit have two children – Shira Geffen and

Aviv Geffen, who becomes a singer in the 1990’s.

In 1972 Yonathan Geffen starts writing every week in the “Maariv”

newspaper and at the same time he also writes poems for adults and also

for children. Yonathan Geffen’s most famous children’s book is “The

Sixteenth Sheep”.

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