Literatureיורם טהרלב

Yoram Taharlev

Yoram Taharlev was an Israeli poet, lyricist and author who wrote the words to hundreds of Hebrew songs.

1938 to 2022The song Ammunition HillLyrics for hundreds of Hebrew songsThe 1982 Eurovision song Hora

Born: 24 January 1938, Yagur
Died: 6 January 2022, Tel Aviv
Occupation: songwriter, poet, lyricist, writer

Yoram Taharlev was born in 1938 in Yagur

Yoram Taharlev was born in 1938 on Kibbutz Yagur. His parents were Yaffa and the author and poet Haim Taharlev. Many of his later songs drew on his childhood in Yagur, near Mount Carmel.

In the army he worked as a reporter for the military papers Bamahane Gadna and Bamahane Nahal. He later studied philosophy at Tel Aviv University, where he met the poet Nurit Zarchi. They married in 1963 and had 2 daughters before separating.

Nachum Heiman was the first composer to set his words to music, with the song recorded by The Parvarim in 1964. He wrote love songs, patriotic songs, nature songs and humorous songs, many for song festivals and the Eurovision Song Contest. He worked for many years as an editor at the Ministry of Defense publishing house.

He married Linda in 1978, and they had a son and a daughter. Linda died in 2011, and in 2014 he married Batia Keinan. He died in 2022 and was buried at Kibbutz Yagur.