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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 568

Haim Gouri

President Reuven Rivlin speaks in front of Haim Gouri's coffin outside the Jerusalem Theatre on February 1, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 1, 2018, 4:01 pm
Israelis pay final respects to war veteran, poet Haim Gouri
President Rivlin calls him ‘national poet of our time’; funeral procession travels through Jerusalem streets precedes burial
By ToI Staff
Veteran Israeli poet, novelist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker Haim Gouri at his home in Jerusalem, July 6, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 1, 2018, 3:54 pm
Remembering a warrior poet who embodied the Israeli experience
Haim Gouri is eulogized as the last of a generation, a fighter and writer who was able to speak to the nation but was also tarnished by his right-wing politics
By Joshua Davidovich
An Israeli delegation seen visiting the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, April 8, 2013. (Photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/FLASH90)
February 1, 2018, 1:44 pm
Defiant Education Ministry vows to tell students ‘the truth’ during Poland trips
But Israel will not halt heritage trips to country after passage of controversial Holocaust complicity law
By ToI Staff
Varda Spiegel
January 31, 2018, 3:01 pm
Varda Spiegel
The Zionism of the singers and the dreamers
I mourn the loss of poet Haim Gouri, as well as the Israel his songs made worth the effort
Veteran Israeli poet, novelist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker Haim Gouri at his home in Jerusalem, July 6, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 31, 2018, 9:47 am
Haim Gouri, veteran Israeli war poet, dies at 94
Prolific writer, journalist, and documentary filmmaker, the dean of Palmach-era Hebrew verse, gave a voice to Israel’s pain and pride
By Raoul Wootliff
IDF Chief Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot leads a military delegation to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland on April 23, 2017, ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
April 23, 2017, 10:58 pm
IDF chief visits Auschwitz ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day
Gadi Eisenkot, together with parents of captured IDF soldier and Holocaust survivor, tour death camp as part of ‘Witnesses in Uniform’ program
By Judah Ari Gross
The newsroom of Army Radio, which contains both conscripted soldiers and civilians who work on its programming. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90/File)
August 8, 2014, 5:18 am
Music woven out of conflict and sorrow
Local composers and singers turn their Hamas war angst and worry into the ballads that listeners want to hear right now
By Jessica Steinberg
A wrecked Israeli tank during the early days of the Yom Kippur War (Wikimedia Commons)
October 6, 2013, 7:31 pm
40 years on, Yom Kippur War intel chiefs trade barbs
Eli Zeira and Zvi Zamir, respective heads of Military Intelligence and the Mossad in 1973, argue at Tel Aviv conference about Mideast war’s outbreak
By Mitch Ginsburg
Israeli soldiers tour Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem (photo credit:Orel Cohen/Flash90)
July 5, 2012, 2:25 pm
On Ammunition Hill, almost half a century later, fighters from both banks of the Jordan find a kind of peace
Flowers replace rifles at a unique encounter between Israeli and Jordanian veterans of the Six Day War
By Elhanan Miller
Naftali Moses
May 4, 2012, 3:12 pm
Naftali Moses
Anglos, angst and aliya
For those of us who have taken our fate in our own hands and moved out of choice half-way around the world, not having an answer to that big ‘why?’ can be devastating
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