Shmuel Yosef AgnonW
Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Shmuel Yosef Agnon was a Nobel Prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon. In English, his works are published under the name S. Y. Agnon.

Nathan AltermanW
Nathan Alterman

Nathan Alterman was an Israeli poet, playwright, journalist, and translator. Though never holding any elected office, Alterman was highly influential in Socialist Zionist politics, both before and after the establishment of the State of Israel.

Aharon AmirW
Aharon Amir

Aharon Amir was an Israeli Hebrew poet, a literary translator and a writer.

Aharon AppelfeldW
Aharon Appelfeld

Aharon Appelfeld was an Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor.

Hanoch BartovW
Hanoch Bartov

Hanoch Bartov was an Israeli author and journalist.

Yocheved Bat-MiriamW
Yocheved Bat-Miriam

Yocheved Bat-Miriam was an Israeli poet. She is unusual among Hebrew poets in expressing nostalgia for the landscapes of the country of her birth. Yocheved migrated to British Palestine, later to be called Israel, in 1928. Her first book of poetry, Merahok was published in 1929. In 1948, her son Nahum (Zuzik) Hazaz from the writer Haim Hazaz died in the 1947–1949 Palestine war. Since then she never wrote a poem again.

Isaac Dov BerkowitzW
Isaac Dov Berkowitz

Isaac Dov Berkowitz, was an Israeli author and Yiddish-Hebrew translator.

Yehuda BurlaW
Yehuda Burla

Yehuda Burla was an Israeli author.

Ya'akov CahanW
Ya'akov Cahan

Ya'akov Cahan or Kahan was an Israeli poet, playwright, translator, writer and Hebrew linguist.

Jacob FichmanW
Jacob Fichman

Jacob Fichman also transliterated as Yakov Fichman, was an acclaimed Hebrew poet, essayist and literary critic.

Ida FinkW
Ida Fink

Ida Fink was a Polish-Israeli author who wrote about the Holocaust in Polish.

Ezra FleischerW
Ezra Fleischer

Ezra Fleischer was a Romanian-Israeli Hebrew-language poet and philologist.

Leah GoldbergW
Leah Goldberg

Leah Goldberg or Lea Goldberg was a prolific Hebrew-language poet, author, playwright, literary translator, and comparative literary researcher.

Uri Zvi GreenbergW
Uri Zvi Greenberg

Uri Zvi Greenberg was an acclaimed Israeli poet and journalist who wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew.

Emile HabibiW
Emile Habibi

Emile Shukri Habibi was an Israeli Arab writer of Arabic literature and a politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the communist parties Maki and Rakah.

Avigdor HameiriW
Avigdor Hameiri

Avigdor Hameiri was an Israeli author.

Yehudit HendelW
Yehudit Hendel

Yehudit Hendel was an award-winning Israeli author. She wrote novels, short stories, and non-fiction.

Abba KovnerW
Abba Kovner

Abba Kovner was a Jewish Hebrew and Yiddish poet, writer and partisan leader. In the Vilna Ghetto, his manifesto was the first time that a target of the Holocaust identified the German plan to murder all Jews. His attempt to organize a ghetto uprising failed, but he fled into the forest, became a Soviet partisan, and survived the war. After the war, Kovner led a secretive organization that aimed to take revenge for the Holocaust by killing six million Germans, but he was arrested by the British before he could carry out his plan. He made aliyah in 1947. Considered one of the greatest poets of modern Israel, he received the Israel Prize in 1970.

Amos OzW
Amos Oz

Amos Oz was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onwards, Oz was a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

David ShimoniW
David Shimoni

David Shimoni was an Israeli poet, writer and translator.

Avraham ShlonskyW
Avraham Shlonsky

Avraham Shlonsky was a significant and dynamic Israeli poet and editor born in the Russian Empire.

Zalman ShneurW
Zalman Shneur

Zalman Shneur was a prolific Yiddish and Hebrew poet and writer. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Gershon ShofmanW
Gershon Shofman

Gershon Shofman was an Israeli writer and painter.

Abraham SutzkeverW
Abraham Sutzkever

Abraham Sutzkever was an acclaimed Yiddish poet. The New York Times wrote that Sutzkever was "the greatest poet of the Holocaust."

Reuven TsurW
Reuven Tsur

Reuven Tsur is professor emeritus of Hebrew literature and literary theory at Tel Aviv University. He was born in Oradea (Nagyvárad), Romania and his mother tongue is Hungarian.

A. B. YehoshuaW
A. B. Yehoshua

Abraham B. Yehoshua is an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright, published as A. B. Yehoshua. The New York Times called him the "Israeli Faulkner".

S. YizharW
S. Yizhar

Yizhar Smilansky, known by his pen name S. Yizhar, was an Israeli writer and politician.

Shlomo ZemachW
Shlomo Zemach

Shlomo Zemach was an Israeli author, agriculturalist and early Zionist pioneer.