David Avidan was an Israeli "poet, painter, filmmaker, publicist, and playwright". He wrote 20 published books of Hebrew poetry.
Haim Gouri was an Israeli poet, novelist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker. Widely regarded as one of the country's greatest poets, he was awarded the Israel Prize for poetry in 1988, as well as being the recipient of several other prizes of national distinction.
Jacob Fichman, also transliterated as Yakov Fichman, was an acclaimed Hebrew poet, essayist and literary critic.
Simon Halkin was a Jewish poet, novelist, teacher, and translator. He died in 1987.
Yocheved Bat-Miriam was an Israeli poet. Bat-Miriam was Born in Belorussia to a Hasidic family. She studied pedagogy in Kharkov and at the universities of Odessa and Moscow. During this period, she participated in the revolutionary literary activities of the “Hebrew Octoberists”, a Communist literary group, and one of her earliest poem-cycles, a paean to revolutionary Russia entitled Erez (Land) was published in the group's anthology in 1926. She is unusual among Hebrew poets in expressing nostalgia for the landscapes of the country of her birth. Yocheved migrated to British Palestine, later to be called Israel, in 1928. Her first book of poetry, Merahok was published in 1929. In 1948, her son Nahum (Zuzik) Hazaz from the writer Haim Hazaz died in the 1947–1949 Palestine war. Since then she never wrote a poem again.
Amir Gilboa was an Israeli poet. Gilboa was awarded the Israel Prize for literature in 1982.
Meir Wieseltier was an Israeli poet and translator. Wieseltier was awarded the 2000 Israel Prize.
Nurit Zarchi is an Israeli poet and author for adults and children.
Haim Be'er, born on 9 February 1945, is an Israeli novelist.
Nissim Aloni was an Israeli playwright and translator.
Raquel Chalfi is an Israeli poet, filmmaker, and professor. In her career, she has published 21 volumes of poetry and book of prose. She worked at the Israeli Broadcasting Authority for much of her career. She is known for her experimental filmmaking style.
Ephraim Sidon is an Israeli author, playwright, and satirist, noted for both his satirical work and his children's books.
Dov Sadan was an Israeli literary critic and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment between 1965 and 1968.
Ya'akov Cahan or Kahan was an Israeli poet, playwright, translator, writer and Hebrew linguist.
David Shimoni was an Israeli poet, writer and translator.
Zalman Shneour was a prolific Yiddish and Hebrew poet and writer. In 1955, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Gershon Shofman was an Israeli writer and painter.
Yitzhak Baer was a German-Israeli historian and an expert on medieval Spanish Jewish history.
Eliezer Steinman was a Russian-born Israeli writer, journalist and editor.
Moshe Zilberg (1900–1975) was a leading Israeli jurist.
