She may have been a 23-year old poet but she was tough as nails. Hannah Szenes met her end before a firing squad in Nazi-occupied Budapest after she parachuted in to save Jews on their way to Auschwitz.

The Founder of Hebrew Spanish Poetry, Dunash ben Labrat, also made your ulpan studies possible. He was the first to distinguish between transitive and intransitive verbs in Hebrew, and to catalog verbs by the 3-letter roots.

Lea Goldberg is the best-selling poet in the history of Israel. Many of her poems express both a love of the land of Israel, as well as nostalgia for her abandoned home in the diaspora.

Moshe Ben-Ezra wasn’t only a Jew and a poet – he was also the commander of the Granada police.

“I was deceived by the stars. / There was a dream; it passed. / I have nothing at all in the world, / nothing but a vast waste.”

Who was Ibn Gavirol, after whom the main north-south street of Tel Aviv is named?