Dahlia Ravikovitch (Hebrew: דליה רביקוביץ'; November 17, 1936 – August 21, 2005) was an Israeli poet, translator and recipient of the Israel Prize for Poetry in 1998.

[2] It was in those formative years in Haifa that she wrote her very first poem, "Painting", which contrasted the blue of the seaside landscape to the yellow and grey of her inner world.

She translated works of W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Edgar Allan Poe, and the book Mary Poppins into Hebrew.

From her home in central Tel Aviv she collaborated with artists, musicians and public figures seeking peace, equality and social justice.

Her first book of poetry, The Love of an Orange, published in 1959, established her as one of Israel's leading young native-born poets.

[5] Her earlier poetry shows her command of formal technique without sacrificing the sensitivity of her always distinct voice.

Like many of Ravikovitch's poems, it may strike the reader as, at once, poignant, metaphysical, disturbing, and even political: "If a man falls from a plane in the middle of the night / only God can lift him up...".