Hedva Harekhavi, Israeli poet and artist, was born in 1941 in Kibbutz Degania Bet,[1] one of the oldest kibbutzim in Israel.

Goldberg later selected and prepared for publication Harekhavi's first book of Hebrew poetry, Ki Hu Melech (Because He Is A King), 1974, which received the Rachel Newman Poetry Prize.

Her poems have been translated into many languages including English, Arabic, Russian and German[3] and have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies.

Her major collection of poetry, A Bird that is Inside Stands Outside: Poems, 1962-2008 was published in 2009 by the Kibbutz Ha Meuchad[4] and the Bialik Institute in Jerusalem - two of Israel's major publishers of Hebrew poetry.

[5] She is known for writing poems that are heavy in repetition, which implies that the reader is not listening, further exacerbating her emotions.