- Yehonatan Geffen
Yehonatan Geffen, (Heb: יהונתן גפן) also known as Yonatan Gefen, is an Israeli
author ,poet ,songwriter ,journalist , andplaywright .Biography
Yehonatan Geffen was born on
February 22 ,1947 , inmoshav Nahalal . He is the father ofAviv Geffen andShira Geffen , as well as beingMoshe Dayan 's nephew. He has two grandsons.In 1965, he served as a
paratrooper underMatan Vilnai , and became an officer. In 1967, his mother overdosed on her medication and died. Geffen considers it to have been suicide.After leaving the army in 1969 and moving to
Tel-Aviv , he took up poetry, but while studying inLondon , his sister Nurit shot herself. He returned to Tel-Aviv and joined the enterntainment troupe "Lul" withUri Zohar ,Arik Einstein andShalom Hanoch . The latter introduced Geffen to his future wife, Nurit Makober.Geffen began his career as a journalist in 1972, for the weekend supplement of the newspaper "
Ma'ariv ".He was often criticised for his strong
left-wing leanings, which bordered on provocation, and was even sent some death threats.Much of his success came from his works for children, like the song "HaYalda Hachi Yafa BaGan" ("The Prettiest Girl in Kindergarten") and the book "HaKeves HaShisha Asar" (the 16th sheep), 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.External links
* [http://jonathan_geffen.tripod.com/english.html An unofficial site]
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