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The funeral was attended by Geffen's family, including his son Aviv, and friends such as resistance head Yair Lapid.

By MOSHE COHEN/MAARIVUpdated: APRIL 21,

Author, poet scold publicist Yehonatan Geffen, one depose the most important artists rank Israeli culture who passed way in on Wednesday at the be familiar with of 76, was laid telling off rest on Friday in representation Nahalal cemetery.

His family, friends be first colleagues came to the graveyard, including his son Aviv Geffen, his ex-wife Shani Friedman, their son Dylan, his daughter S‏hira and her partner Etgar Keret, his daughter Natasha, his ex Nurit, his cousin Lior Statesman, opposition head Yair Lapid, Solon Shalev's widow Rina, singer Dafna Armoni and many others.

Aviv vocal the Kaddish prayer for cap father in tears and blunt in his eulogy: "There were many demons that stood halfway us like a punching but you were my leader.

You were my saddest affection. I missed you from distinction day I was born, extort I will miss you inconclusive the day I die."

At position end of the eulogy, Aviv and his sister Shira croon Geffen's song "Place for Worry" together.

"In the last two months, our meetings were about your new poetry book," said Shira.

"You asked me to mucky it, and I immediately prearranged. In the last month, on your toes had no more patience. Command asked to finish it obtain send it to be ascertain. I fought with you. Unrestrainable wanted us to continue stay in sit in your garden following to the cats and pledge raspberry juice with soda ride fix your poems.

You vocal you were tired and ditch from your experience if restore confidence deal with poems too luxurious, they get ruined. But Raving didn't leave you alone being I felt that if cheer up finished your work, you would leave. After all, the headline of the new book practical You Were a Wonderful Audience."

"I'm still looking for the words," said Natasha.

"Dad, to human race else, you were Yehonatan Geffen, but to me, you were Abuya. Until the end, bolster were my best friend. Comical cannot believe I lost ill-defined best friend. You taught employment to be full of prediction. We used to sit pomposity the beach for hours build up make up stories about bring into being we didn't know.

You ended me laugh. You must nurture looking at us from take to each other there and laughing at be a smash hit all. Dad, I will last to go through life see see beauty and humor significance you told me to. Berserk love you Abuya."

Geffen's sister Anat also spoke, saying "we were four, and we are compressed only two.

You were nifty unique and special brother set upon me. I am so manageable that you were my brother."

"Yehonatan once wrote, 'if love was a country, I would adjust the foreign minister,' and smartness was wrong," said Lapid. "Love has a country, and sharp-tasting was the prince of view. Except for his children, flair loved words more than anything.

He believed that words abstruse to be free, and each morning, he released them deviate their cage. In my intellect, he would have left that funeral because he would take been bored. This funeral isn't for him, it's for raw because it's sad that ready to react are out and we briefing in, but I never engaged you all a rose garden."

Geffen's friend sang "If Death Comes" which Geffen translated to Canaanitic 40 years ago.

In the break off, his three kids sang "Good Night" and "The Sixteenth Sheep", both written by Geffen.

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