the original phrase, meaning 'by the way'; in Shlonsky's version, it means 'the way of longing'): flirt. someone who goes around with a transistor radio glued to one ear: radiot. being cheated on by a woman for the first time: keren hayesod. The phrase, literally "The Foundation Fund", is the Hebrew name of the United Israel Appeal. But the word keren (fund) can also mean "horn" as in cuckoldry—or as in the horned Moses of art history. being cheated on by a woman habitually: keren kayemet (the Jewish National Fund, where kayemet means "enduring"). the Ararat (אררט) café in early Tel Aviv, where penniless writers gathered: It's an acronym for "Ani Rotze Rak Te (אני רוצה רק תה, I only want tea)." (Misspelled) the eagerness of literary folk for prizes: prize-titution (prastitutzia). See also List of Israel Prize recipients List of Bialik Prize recipients References Further reading The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself, (2003) External links "Avraham Shlonsky", capsule biography and bibliography at Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature – a photo Israeli poets Israel Prize in literature recipients Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium alumni Translators from Russian Translators from Georgian Translators to Hebrew Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Ukrainian Jews Israeli Ashkenazi Jews 1900 births 1973 deaths Translators of Alexander Pushkin Translators of William Shakespeare 20th-century translators 20th-century English poets 20th-century novelists Burials at Kiryat Shaul Cemetery