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The main purpose of the article is to present the reception of the writings by Czeslaw Milosz in Israel. While in the West Milosz was for a long time perceived as a “political writer”, the author of The Captive Mind and The Seizure of Power, in Israel, as early as in the 70s, the critics regarded him as a distinguished poet. They appreciated Milosz both as the author of the poems on the extermination of the Warsaw Ghetto: Campo di Fiori and Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto, and the co-creator of the neoclassical style in modern poetry. The style of Milosz`s poetry, its realism, self-restraint and clarity, especially in splendid translations by David Weinfeld, have significantly influenced modern Israeli poetry.