The poet, writer, screenwriter and creator Lehi Hanoch passed away today (Monday) at the age of 73 following a battle with a serious illness. Hanoch, Shalom Hanoch’s ex-wife left behind a daughter, Maya (screenwriter and poet herself) and two grandchildren. At her request, there will be no funeral. Throughout the years of her career, Hanoch produced films including “Big Children”, “A Girl Looking for an Address”, “The Big Dreams of the Upper Street”, “Manana”, “A Young Woman’s Monologue” and “Adam Circus”. With her ex-husband she also created the film “A True Romance” which deals with Hanoch’s concert tour in the first days of the intifada.
Lehi Hanoch, screenwriter-director and poet, was born in Moshava Rosh-Pina in 1951 as the eldest daughter of the Efron family. Her grandfather (on her mother’s side), Prof. Gideon Merr, was the inventor of the medicine for malaria who ran a laboratory for researching the disease in the colony. After the death of her grandfather, the family moved to Petah Tikva. Four years later, she began working on Israeli television: first as an investigator, then as an assistant director, and finally as a director on Channel One. The film she produced for the channel, “Adam Circus”, is based on the adaptation process of the book “Adam Ben Caleb” by Yoram Kaniuk. During her life Hanoch also lived in London and New York and following returning to Israel she settled in Tel Aviv.
Lehi Hanoch with Meir Ariel, photo: Moshe Shay
Hanoch also wrote books such as “In the Height of the Wheat”, “Of the Terms”, “Poems”, “Cello Section”, “A Novel in Full Nude” and even had time to write another book regarding a year before her death called “Like a wild animal, like a animal”. The sources of inspiration for her poetry are the poetry of Avot Yeshuron and Yona Wallach.
Knesset member Merav Michaeli eulogized: “A person walks with the tone of his story. All day long he holds it / on his hands. Outside, the seasons of the year and the seasons of life change, / creatures and walls and schedules hit him from all sides, and he / holds the tone of his story on his hands and covers him with his body/ so that he will not be harmed.” Lehi Hanoch was a poet writer and photographer and screenwriter and star and bohemian and very very very stunning. A great loss to Israeli culture, and to those who loved it so much. R.I.P”.
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