“The City of the Dove” / Nathan Alterman
Natan Alterman was and still is one of the most prolific and popular poets in Israeli literature. Over the years, Alterman has been identified with the labor movement in general and Mapai in particular, and the views and actions of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion particularly adored Alterman. Ben-Gurion, for his part, saw Alterman’s poems, and …