>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Obit-Yonatan.html > >Israeli Poet Natan Yonatan Dies at 81 >By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS > >Published: March 12, 2004 > >Filed at 5:42 p.m. ET > >JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli poet Natan Yonatan, who won several Israeli >literary awards with works that weaved together themes of >nature and war, died Friday near Tel Aviv. He was 81. > >Yonatan won the Newman Prize for Hebrew Literature in 2001. His 20 books >of poetry have been translated into several languages, >including English, Russian and Spanish. His death was widely reported by >Israeli media. > >In one of his best-known poems, ``That Man,'' Yonatan eulogized Prime >Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated by an >ultranationalist Jew in 1995. The poem was set to music, and was widely >played. > >Yonatan was born in 1923 in Kiev, Ukraine, and immigrated to Israel at age >two with his parents. After receiving a graduate degree >in Hebrew and general literature from Tel Aviv University, he served for >27 years as the chief editor of the Sifriyat Poalim >publishing house. > >Recently, he appeared in the documentary ``Living in Conflict: Voices from >Israel and Palestine'' in which he spoke about the loss >of his son Lior in the 1973 Middle East war. > >Yonatan was to be buried Sunday. He is survived by a son and his wife, Nili.
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