Israel Eliraz

He attended Alliance Israélite Universelle and Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he specialized in Jewish literature and philosophy, received his master’s degree from Tel Aviv University where he specialized in comparative literary studies, started writing poetry in 1980, studied theatre at University of Paris between 1995 and 1996 on a stipend from the French government, and worked for a living as a teacher and principal at Gymnasia Rehavia and as an instructor at Kerem Institute for Teacher Training [he].

Occasionally he would also lecture in France, Belgium, and the United States: for example he was visiting professor of drama at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1980 and was invited to Biennale Internationale des Poètes en Val-de-Marne [fr] in 1999 and to Centre communautaire laïc juif [fr] in 1998.

His resting place is in Kiryat Anavim, Mateh Yehuda Regional Council, Jerusalem District, Israel.

[2] Haaretz critic Prof. Dr. Miron Chaim Izakson [he] wrote about this book that upon reading it he felt as if he “received endless letters from the poet regarding existential wonders"[3] while Iton 77 critic Amos Levitan [he] said that it changed his life.

[4] Haaretz critic Ouzi Zur praised this book's “wonderful poetic introspection regarding the quintessence of seeing.”[5]