Our tiny country was the playground for his immense talent. A field on which the late Yoram Taharlev astonished us with his words, and his words were essentially the story of us all. He saw the country as a tiny bit of heaven, and that's exactly how we experienced it in his poems and songs, and how we wanted – just like he did – for it to have 40 years of quiet.
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Together, we discovered the land whose roots were already deep within ourselves, together we prayed silently for the Land of Israel, and together we believed with all our hearts that with all due respect to what was and what would be, what really mattered was today.
For decades, Taharlev pursued the love of his life – his love for the country and its people. For him, it was a beautiful bride, and it did open its gates to him and sing to him.
These gates were also the gates to our hearts, which filled with excitement every time another line of his sparked longing, or made us smile at another of his witty phrases.
Now, sadly, his journey is over. The youth of the man who was eternally young, the man who with such enormous talent wrote down what all of us felt, is over.
Nothing can wash away the love he brought into our lives, and tears of sadness cannot close the gate that opened, the gate of Yoram Taharlev's life and work. We will continue to pass his songs and work that are on our lips down through the generations.
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