Moshe Dor, who died last year, was born in Tel Aviv under British Mandatory rule.  He was the author of scores of books - dozens of his own poetry, and most of the rest translations ranging from contemporary American poets Charles Simic, Robert Hass and Rita Dove to British writers as iconic as Arthur Conan Doyle, Chesterton and Robert Graves.

Recipient of the Bialik Prize, Israel’s top litera...