Haim Gouri

Haim Gouri studied at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Arts of Paris and Kadoorie Agricultural High School. The recorded working language is Hebrew. Distinctions recorded are Israel Prize, Bialik Prize, Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works and Sokolov Award.

• Name — Haim Gouri • Native Name — חיים גורי • Birth Name — Haim Gurfinkel • Born — 9 October 1923 • Birthplace — Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine • Died — 31 January 2018 • Place of death — Jerusalem • Citizenship — Israel • Education — The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; the Sorbonne • Occupation — Poet, novelist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker • Awards — *1961 Sokolow Award for Israeli Journalism • 1975 Bialik Prize for literature • 1988 Israel Prize for Hebrew poetry • 1998 Uri Zvi Greenberg Award

• Illustration — Haim Gouri Haim Gurfinkel (later Gouri) was born in Tel Aviv to Gila and the politician Yisrael. After studying at the Kadoorie Agricultural High School, he joined the Palmach and completed a commander's course. He participated in the bombing of a British radar station being used to track Aliyah Bet ships carrying illegal Jewish immigrants to Palestine. In 1947 he was sent to Hungary to bring Holocaust survivor to Mandate Palestine. During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War he was a deputy company commander in the Palmach's Negev Brigade. Gouri studied literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Sorbonne in Paris. As a journalist he worked for LaMerhav and later, Davar. He achieved fame with his coverage of the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann.

Gouri's first published poem, Day Voyage, appeared in Mishmar, edited by Abraham Shlonsky, in 1945. His first complete volume of poetry, Flowers of Fire, was published in 1949 following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Some poems that Gouri wrote became an inseparable part of the Israeli ethos. One of his most famous poems, "Behold, here our bodies lie", was written in the time of Israel's war for independence (1948–1949) to commemorate the 35 soldiers who were killed on their way to the besieged Gush Etzion settlements. Gouri also wrote a few famous popular songs such as "The Comradeship" (הרעות) that became representative of Israel's war for independence.

Gouri lived with his wife, Aliza, in Jerusalem. Gouri died on 31 January 2018, at the age of 94.

• Flowers of Fire, Hakibbutz Hameuchad (1949) • Till Dawn, Hakibbutz Hameuchad (1950) • Poems of the Seal, Hakibbutz Hameuchad (1954) • Compass Rose, Hakibbutz Hameuchad (1960) • Gehazi Visions, Hakibbutz Hameuchad (1967) • Movement to Touch, Hakibbutz Hameuchad (1968) • The Eagle Line, Hakibbutz Hameuchad (1975) • Summer's End, Hakibbutz Hameuchad (1985) • The One Who Came After Me, Hakibbutz Hameuchad (1993) • Words in My Love-Sick Blood (selected poems in English translation). Detroit: Wayne State University, 1996,. • The Poems, in two volumes, Bialik Institute (1998) • Late Poems, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, (2002) • I Am a Civil War, Daniella De-Nur, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, (2004). • Eyval, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, (2009) • Though I Wished for More of More, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, Daniella De-Nur, (2015)

• The Chocolate Deal, Hakibbutz Hameuchad (1965). English translations: New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968,. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999,. • The Crazy Book. Am Oved Publishers, (1971) • The Interrogation, The Story of Reuel. Am Oved Publishers, (1980) • Who Knows Joseph G?, Hakibbutz Hameuchad (1980)

• Pages of Jerusalem Hakibbutz Hameuchad, notes (1968) • Facing the Glass Booth: the Jerusalem Trial of Adolf Eichmann (1962). English translation: Detroit: Wayne State University, 2004,. • The Imprint of Memory, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, Bialik Institute, (2015).