There’s No Place Like Israel

Yehonatan Geffen

1981

Sometimes, when I return from a trip abroad, I try to imagine that I am a new immigrant. You know, the first time that I arrived in Israel from the Diaspora, with all the pekelech 1 and hopes, and thinking that now everything would be different. It is hard for me because this truly is my country, but I imagine that in many ways it is like stepping…

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Yehonatan Geffen

1947–2023

Yehonatan Geffen was born in Moshav Nahalal in pre-State Israel. In the early 1970s, he was a foreign correspondent for the Israeli daily Maariv, and spent several years in London and New York. Geffen has also written prose, poetry, plays, and satiric musical shows. He lives in Tel Aviv and Los Angeles.

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