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| '''Yehonatan Geffen''' (Heb: '''יהונתן גפן'''; born February 22, 1947) also known as '''Yonatan Gefen''', is an Israeli author, poet, songwriter, ], and playwright.<ref name="MooreGertz2012">{{cite book|last1=Moore|first1=Deborah Dash|last2=Gertz|first2=Nurith|title=The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 10: 1973-2005|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qZKzAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA375|access-date=9 September 2016|year=2012|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=9780300135534|page=375}}</ref> | '''Yehonatan Geffen''' (Heb: '''יהונתן גפן'''; born February 22, 1947) also known as '''Yonatan Gefen''', is an Israeli author, poet, songwriter, ], and playwright.<ref name="MooreGertz2012">{{cite book|last1=Moore|first1=Deborah Dash|last2=Gertz|first2=Nurith|title=The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 10: 1973-2005|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qZKzAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA375|access-date=9 September 2016|year=2012|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=9780300135534|page=375}}</ref> | ||
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| Yehonatan Geffen | |
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| Born | (1947-02-22) February 22, 1947 (age 77) Nahalal, Mandatory Palestine |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Occupation(s) | Author, poet, songwriter, journalist, and playwright |
| Spouse | Nurit |
| Children | Aviv Geffen, Shira Geffen, and Natasha Geffen |
| Relatives | nephew of Moshe Dayan |
Yehonatan Geffen (Heb: יהונתן גפן; born February 22, 1947) also known as Yonatan Gefen, is an Israeli author, poet, songwriter, journalist, and playwright.
Biography
Geffen was born in moshav Nahalal. He is the father of Aviv Geffen, Shira Geffen and Natasha Geffen, as well as nephew of Moshe Dayan. He has two grandsons.
In 1965, he served as a paratrooper under Matan Vilnai, and became an officer.
In 1967, his mother overdosed on her medication and died. Geffen considers it to have been suicide.
After his discharge from the IDF in 1969 and moving to Tel Aviv, he took up poetry.
In 1972, while Geffen was studying in London, his sister Nurit committed suicide, causing him to return to Tel Aviv.
During this period he began writing a column for the weekend supplement of Ma'ariv, and he joined the entertainment troupe "Lul" with Uri Zohar, Arik Einstein, and Shalom Hanoch. The latter introduced Geffen to his future wife, Nurit Makober.
Geffen was often criticized for his strong left-wing leanings, which bordered on provocation, and even received death threats. He was one of a group of journalists (including Uri Dan, Yeshayahu Ben Porat, Eitan Haber, Hezi Carmel, Eli Landau, and Eli Tavor) who in 1973 published the book The Failure, the first book to document the Yom Kippur War. It criticized the performance of the government and military and also contained first-hand descriptions of battles, casualties, injuries, and the losses and failures of military hardware. The book aroused considerable public interest.
Much of Geffen's success came from his works for children, like the song "HaYalda Hachi Yafa BaGan" and the book "HaKeves HaShisha Asar" , but he has also written many popular songs, poems, plays, and stories for adults. He frequently collaborated with David Broza, rendering Spanish songs into Hebrew.
In February 2018, Geffen published a poem on his Instagram feed that ended with the following lines:
את , אהד תמימי, אדומת השיער , כמו דוד שסטר לגולית , תהיי באותה שורה עם ז'אן דארק , חנה סנש ואנה פרנק. |
You, Ahed Tamimi,
The red-haired, Like David who slapped Goliath, Will be counted among the likes of |
Reacting to this, defense minister Avigdor Lieberman demanded that Israel’s popular Army Radio ban Geffen’s work, and culture minister Miri Regev said Geffen was "crossing a red line by someone seeking to rewrite history." Geffen published an apology but didn't remove the poem from his Instagram feed.
References
- Moore, Deborah Dash; Gertz, Nurith (2012). The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 10: 1973-2005. Yale University Press. p. 375. ISBN 9780300135534. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
- את , אהד תמימי ... (Instagram)
- Louis, Fishman (2018-02-07). "Once, Israeli pop culture icons publicly criticized the occupation. What silenced them?". haaretz.com. Retrieved 2018-02-18.