Robert Whitehill (poet)

Upon his return, Whitehill enrolled at University of Texas at Austin, where he received a Juris Doctor as well as a master's degree in English literature.

Although Hadoar rejected his later poems, Megged helped Whitehill to get his work published in the Israeli daily newspapers Ha’aretz and Davar.

In 1976, Whitehill translated his first book, the collection Rustic Sunset and Other Stories by Israeli screenplay writer and journalist Yitzhak Ben Ner.

In the D.C. area, Whitehill worked for the Federal Communications Commission, in the low-power broadcasting regulation division.

In a March 2006 article in Commentary Magazine, Michael Weingrad discussed Whitehill's growing poetry collection and the Texan's anomalous maturation into a Hebrew poet.