59 Hebrew language poets

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.

Ada Aharoni is an Egyptian-born Israeli poet, writer, lecturer, sociologist and peace researcher. Since her first poetry book, Poems from Israel, was launched in 1972 she has published 34 books, including peace poetry, historical novels, sociology and history books, biographies, drama, film-scripts, literary criticism, and books for children. The uprooting of the Jews from Egypt, including herself, following the establishment of Israel in 1948 is one of the main topics in many of her novels. Her research on this "Second Exodus" has been a major focus in her career.

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.

Ronen Elimelech Altman Kaydar is an Israeli writer and poet.

Yehuda Amichai was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered, both in Israel and internationally, as Israel's greatest modern poet, and one of the leading poets worldwide. He also wrote two novels and several short stories. He was one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew.

Aharon Appelfeld was an Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor.

David Avidan was an Israeli "poet, painter, filmmaker, publicist, and playwright". He wrote 20 published books of Hebrew poetry.

Maya Bejerano is an Israeli poet.

Itamar Ben-Avi was the first native speaker of Hebrew in modern times. He was a journalist and Zionist activist.

Judah Leib Ben-Ze'ev was a Galician Jewish philologist, lexicographer, and Biblical scholar. He was a member of the Me'assefim group of Hebrew writers, and a "forceful proponent of revitalizing the Hebrew language".

Hayim Nahman Bialik, also Chaim or Haim, was a Jewish poet who wrote primarily in Hebrew but also in Yiddish. Bialik was one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew poetry. He was part of the vanguard of Jewish thinkers who gave voice to the breath of new life in Jewish life. Although he died before Israel became a state, Bialik ultimately came to be recognized as Israel's national poet.

Rachel Bluwstein Sela was a Hebrew-language poet who immigrated to Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire, in 1909. She is known by her first name, Rachel, or as Rachel the Poetess.

Sami Shalom Chetrit is a Moroccan-born Hebrew poet an inter-disciplinary scholar and teacher, and Israeli social and peace activist.

Abraham Cohen was a Jewish physician, rabbi, religious philosopher and poet on Zante (Zakynthos), an Ionian Island, and an overseas colony of the Venetian Republic.

Jacob Eichenbaum, born Jacob Gelber, was a Galician-Jewish maskil, educator, poet and mathematician.

Eleazar ben Kalir, also known as Eleazar HaKalir, Eleazar ben Killir or Eleazar Kalir was a Byzantine Jew and a Hebrew poet whose classical liturgical verses, known as piyut, have continued to be sung through the centuries during significant religious services, including those on Tisha B'Av and on the sabbath after a wedding. He was one of Judaism's earliest and most prolific of the paytanim. He wrote piyutim for all the main Jewish festivals, for special Sabbaths, for weekdays of festive character, and for the fasts. Many of his hymns have found their way into festive prayers of the Ashkenazi Jews' synagogal rite.

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

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

David ben Saul Frischmann was a Hebrew and Yiddish modernist writer, poet, and translator. He edited several important Hebrew periodicals, and wrote fiction, poetry, essays, feuilletons, literary criticisms, and translations.

Solomon ibn Gabirol was an 11th-century Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher in the Neo-Platonic tradition. He published over a hundred poems, as well as works of biblical exegesis, philosophy, ethics and satire. One source credits ibn Gabirol with creating a golem, possibly female, for household chores.

Mordechai Geldman is an Israeli poet, artist, and psychologist

Judah Leib Gordon, also known as Leon Gordon, was among the most important Hebrew poets of the Jewish Enlightenment.

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

Judah Halevi was a Spanish Jewish physician, poet and philosopher. He was born in Spain, either in Toledo or Tudela, in 1075 or 1086, and died shortly after arriving in the Holy Land in 1141, at that point the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Yehuda Alharizi, also Judah ben Solomon Harizi or al-Harizi, was a rabbi, translator, poet and traveller active in Spain in the Middle Ages. He was supported by wealthy patrons, to whom he wrote poems and dedicated compositions.

Benjamin Harshav, born Hrushovski ; June 26 1928 – April 23 2015 was a literary theorist specialising in comparative literature, a Yiddish and Hebrew poet, and an Israeli translator and editor. He served as professor of literature at the University of Tel Aviv and as a professor of comparative literature, Hebrew language and literature, and Slavic languages and literature at Yale University. He was the founding editor of the Duke University Press publication Poetics Today. He received the EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture in 2005 and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Roy Hasan is an Israeli contemporary Hebrew poet. He is a principal member of the Ars poetica literary movement. In 2015 Hasan was awarded the 2015 Bernstein Prize.

Yehudit Kafri Meiri is a 20th–21st century Israeli poet and a writer, as well as editor and translator. She was born in 1935 and lived as a child in Kibbutz Ein HaHoresh, where her parents were founding members. Yehudit belonged to the first group of children born in this kibbutz.

Isaac ben Abraham Kaminer was a Jewish-Ukrainian Hebrew-language poet, satirist, and physician.

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.

Dunash ha-Levi ben Labrat was a medieval Jewish commentator, poet, and grammarian of the Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain.

Abraham Dov Ber Lebensohn, also known by the pen names Abraham Dov-Ber Michailishker and Adam ha-Kohen, was a Lithuanian Jewish Hebraist, poet and educator.

Micah Joseph Lebensohn was a Lithuanian-Jewish poet who wrote in Hebrew.

Haim Lensky, also Hayyim Lensky, was a Russian poet who wrote in Hebrew. He wrote the bulk of his verse while imprisoned in several Soviet labor camps from 1934 onward.

Max Letteris was an Austrian Jewish scholar and the foremost poet of the Galician Haskala.

Yehudah Leib ha-Levi Levin, also known by the acronyms Yehalel and Yehalal, was a Hebrew socialist maskilic Hebrew poet, writer, and publicist. His poems were the first to introduce socialist themes into Hebrew literature.

Samuel David Luzzatto was an Italian Jewish scholar, poet, and a member of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement. He is also known by his Hebrew acronym, Shadal.

Mordechai Tzvi Maneh, also known by the pen name Ha-Metzayer, was a Russian Hebrew lyric poet, translator, and artist.

Dory Manor is an Israeli poet, translator, literary editor, essayist, and educator, writing in Hebrew. His work has garnered several prizes and honors, including the Tchernichovski Prize for Translation (2008) and the French Chevalier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2018). As of 2020, Manor published five books of poetry, dozens of literary translations – especially from French – and is the founding editor of the Hebrew literary journal Ho!. He also edits books of poetry by other Hebrew poets.

Joseph Massel, born in Wjasin near Vilna, Russia, 1850; d. Manchester, 1912) was a Zionist activist, writer, Hebrew poet and translator.

Yonit Naaman is an Israeli poet, essayist, editor, and literary and cultural researcher.

Samuel ibn Naghrillah, also known as Samuel HaNagid, was a medieval Spanish Talmudic scholar, grammarian, philologist, soldier, merchant, politician, and an influential poet who lived in Iberia at the time of the Moorish rule. His poetry was one area through which he was well known. He was perhaps the most politically influential Jew in Muslim Spain.

Amir Or, is an Israeli poet, novelist and essayist whose works have been published in 45 languages.

Alexander Penn was an Israeli poet.

Gabriel Preil was a modern Hebrew poet active in the United States, who wrote in Hebrew and Yiddish. He was the last of the Haskala poets. Preil translated Robert Frost and Walt Whitman into Hebrew.

Esther Raab was a Hebrew author of prose and poetry, known as "the first Sabra poet", due to her eminence as the first Israeli woman poet and for the prominence of her native landscape in her imagery.

Isaac ben Mordechai Rabinowitz, also known by the pen name Ish Kovno was a Russian-born Jewish poet and translator.

Yonatan Ratosh was the literary pseudonym of Uriel Shelach, a Polish-born Israeli poet and journalist who founded the Canaanite movement.

Dahlia Ravikovitch was an Israeli poet, translator, and peace activist.

Janice Rebibo was an American-born Israeli poet who began writing in Hebrew in the mid-1980s.

Amir Akiva Segal is a poet, literary critic, employment consultant and the CEO of Ovdim.

Rabbi Shalom ben Yosef ben Avigad Shabazi of the family of Mashtā, also Abba Sholem Shabazi or Saalem al-Shabazi, was a Jewish poet who lived in 17th century Yemen. He is now considered the 'Poet of Yemen'.

Constantin Aleksandrovich Shapiro, born Asher ben Eliyahu Shapiro and known by the pen name Abba Shapiro, was a Hebrew lyric poet and photographer. Though he converted to Russian Orthodoxy at an early age, Shapiro nonetheless retained lifelong ties to Judaism, Zionism, and his mitnagedic roots, themes of which featured prominently in his poetry. He was described by Yeshurun Keshet as "a poet of the national legend, the first author of the ballad in Hebrew literature."

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

Gershon Shofman was an Israeli writer and painter.

Shaul Gutmanovich Tchernichovsky was a Russian-born Hebrew poet. He is considered one of the great Hebrew poets, identified with nature poetry, and as a poet greatly influenced by the culture of ancient Greece.

David Vogel was a Ukrainian-born Jewish poet, novelist, and diarist.

Robert Whitehill is an American Hebrew poet.

Amalia Ziv is an Israeli academic and researcher. Her research areas are pornography and sexual representations, queer culture, queer activism, and queer kinship. Because of her activism and research, Ziv is considered a prominent member of the LGBTQ and feminist communities in Israel.