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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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