to promote tolerance, friendship, and cooperation in Israeli society and serves as SPO at a non-profit for the advancement of Hebrew language teaching and learning in North America. Published works The first of her four poetry collections, Zara (a stranger-woman, referring to the figure in Proverbs), was published in 1997. She later served as chief translator for Natan Yonatan, completing Within the Song to Live, his bilingual volume of selected work, following that popular poet’s death in 2004.Zara Betzion: shirim 1984-2006, a blend of two literary traditions, received a President of Israel Award and other prizes. Her poems have been set to music by composer, Gidi Koren. In addition to the English libretto for composer Matti Kovler's The Escape of Jonah, Rebibo also collaborated with Kovler to write the libretto for Here Comes Messiah!, performed at Carnegie Hall in 2009 and at Boston's Jordan Hall in 2010. Literary style Rebibo's poetry has been described as having “a new strength and the kind of courage that comprises a strategic breakthrough, a stance of both audacity and humor that adds something new to the war of independence of Israel's consciousness – a revolution of language, spirit and mind”, according to critic Menahem Ben. Awards and recognitionZara Betzion'' ("A Stranger in Zion") by Janice Rebibo received awards from the Office of the President of Israel and the Mifal HaPayis Cultural Committee, as well as Hebrew College's Steiner Prize in Hebrew Literature, one of several academic and literary prizes awarded to Rebibo over her many years of association with that College. See also Hebrew literature References External links Open Library - Hebrew books by Janice Rebibo Listing including translations to English Book in English: My Beautiful Ballooning Heart, poems by Janice Silverman Rebibo, 2013 "Janice ג'ניס" - English and Hebrew poetry and events blog Janice Rebibo in Ohio State University's Modern Hebrew Literature Lexicon Rebibo's Jerusalem Post piece dedicated to Natan Yonatan on the first anniversary of his passing Zara Betzion booklaunch, Tel Aviv, December 1, 2007 Hebrew poems by Janice Rebibo online More Hebrew poems by Janice Rebibo online My Beautiful Ballooning Heart, Muddy River Poetry Review 1950 births 2015 deaths Hebrew-language poets Writers from Boston Israeli women poets Israeli poets Israeli people of American-Jewish descent American people of Israeli descent Deaths from cancer in Israel Place of death missing 20th-century poets 20th-century American women writers American women poets Israeli translators 20th-century American