Yoram's bench remained orphaned yesterday.
Yoram's bench was Tel Aviv's most pleasant bench, especially on Saturdays.
Religious and secular, traditional and ultra-Orthodox, who would pass by Yoram's bench in Tel Aviv State Square, always received a pleasant and polite smile from this charming man.
The same good look was aimed at everyone.
By the way, even the cigar in his mouth was as modest as he was.
We met, Yoram and I.
We collaborated on a special, charming and witty supplement, as only Yoram knew how to offer readers.
But we were also neighbors.
A great right for a newspaper editor, but also a great right for a Tel Aviv resident.
The poet and writer Yoram Taharlev was laid to rest in Kibbutz Yagur // Photo: Moshe Ben Simhon
Yesterday was the first Saturday where my children did not meet the man sitting on the bench in the denim shirt and with the white beard, who would contribute to David and Naomi his biblical, lyrical and wise interpretation of this week's Torah portion. The magic between Judaism and Zionism, asked us to forget.
In general, some houses in Israel, religious houses, traveled and traveled in Israel thanks to Yoram.
"Get up and walk in the land," wrote Yoram, and they did so thanks to his songs, without violating Shabbat.
Here is Yoram's great contribution to Shabbat, to the land and to the people.
On days like these, when we unfortunately enjoy not agreeing on our identity, I already miss my dear poet, my neighbor, who was secular but breathed Judaism, like many of our founding fathers.
"There is no way back," sang Yoram.
But for me, for David and Naomi and in general for the people who loved you so much and loved you so much - you never went, you will never go.
I passed your bench, and in the middle of the Sabbath I engraved the bench in my heart.
In the evening I remembered the picture and saw you sitting there still, because as we said - there is no way back because you can not walk.
Yoram, thank you.
The late Yoram Trahlev, Photo: Kfir Ziv
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