{{Short description|Israeli poet}} thumb|Funeral of the poet Yona Wallach. Photo shows: Yair Hurvitz participating the funeral. '''Yair Hurvitz''' ({{langx|he|יאיר הורביץ}}; 1941–1988<ref>{{cite web | work=Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature | title=Yair Hurvitz | url=http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=125 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080309153333/http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=125 | archive-date=March 9, 2008 | url-status=dead }}</ref>), also known as '''Yair Horowitz''',<ref>{{cite book | author = Esther Raizen | date = 1995 | title = No Rattling of Sabers: An Anthology of Israeli War Poetry | publisher = University of Texas Press | pages = 170– | isbn = 978-0-292-77071-3 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=iHwPEUYBzpsC&pg=PA170}}</ref> was an Israeli poet who began publishing poetry in the 1960s, he was a member of the "Tel Aviv Poets" group.<ref>{{cite book | author = Fred S. Moramarco | date = 2004 | title = The Poetry of Men's Lives: An International Anthology | publisher = University of Georgia Press | pages = 31– | isbn = 978-0-8203-2351-0 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=qDbvWyMUeKYC&pg=PA31}}</ref> His poems mark a return to the tradition of Haim Nachman Bialik. According to literary critic, Ariel Hirschfeld, a poem by Hurvitz comes close "to an invocation, to the creation of a visionary world by means of the word."<ref>{{cite book | author =Ariel Hirschfeld | date = 2003 | title = The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself | publisher = Wayne State University Press | pages = 345– | isbn = 978-0-8143-2485-1 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=gDG6K8lPphIC&pg=PA345}}</ref>
He died in 1988 at the age of 47 from the heart disease that had plagued him since childhood.<ref>{{cite web | title=Poetry International Web - Yair Hurvitz | website=israel.poetryinternationalweb.org | date= | url=http://israel.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=18672 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720150005/http://israel.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=18672 | archive-date=July 20, 2011 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
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