1956, due to the Suez Canal crisis, the Arab-Israeli war broke out again, known as the second Middle East war in history, and Amihai once again joined the army to the front.
His poems in this period showed obvious patriotism and recognition of the new state of Israel. There are many allusions in his poems, including biblical vocabulary and covering the history of the Jews. However, his subsequent works became more concise and colloquial, which critics pointed out was obviously influenced by English poetry style.
1958, Amihai's second collection of poems, Two Hopes apart, was published, which has since established his position in Israeli poetry circles and is also a representative figure of "Palmachi generation" (referring to writers with military experience during Israel's War of Independence). At this time, Amihai's revolutionary attitude in poetry art became more obvious, and the description of daily life scenes became the main body of his poems. Words that are traditionally considered unsuitable for writing poetry, such as tanks, airplanes, gasoline and some technical terms, all appear in his poems, mixed with biblical sentence patterns or the tone of prayer books, as well as the lyrical style of German and the modernism of English poetry. On the one hand, he revived ancient Hebrew; On the other hand, it dismembered and reconstructed ancient Hebrew idioms in its own way. His poems are completely modern.
Amihai firmly believes that modern poetry must not avoid modern themes, but it cannot be completely divorced from tradition. With full personalization and colloquialism, he broke with the collective voice of Hebrew poetry in the face of thousands of years of national suffering. He sang a song with strong personal color in Hebrew for the first time.
Amihai is very prolific. He wrote more than 1000 poems and published 25 poems, two novels and a collection of short stories. He is not only a poet, but also a novelist, playwright, essayist and even a children's literature writer.
1962, Amihai published the play A Journey to Nineveh, and successively published several novels, including 1963' s "Not at this time, not here", which tells the story of a Jewish immigrant seeking identity in Israel with a complex narrative structure. Since then, he has published his poetry collection Jerusalem (1967) and Poetry Collection (1969), which have been highly praised by critics.
The 1970s and 1980s were the peaks of his poetry art and publication. 197 1 to 1976, he went to the United States and became a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. During this period, the Arab-Israeli war resumed in 1973, known as the Yom Kippur War, and he returned to China to join the army again.
197 1 published his second novel, The Hotel in the Wilderness, and successively published Poems of Jerusalem, My own Poems (1973), Amen (1977) and Time (1977).
1982, Ami Hein won the highest honor "Israel Prize" for his "revolutionary change in poetic language".
In his later years, his works became more loose in form, and the theme was no longer so precise, even giving up the theme. 1998, he published the last book of poetry, Open and Close. On September 22nd, 2000, yehuda Amichai died of cancer.
In April, 2007, Open, Close and Open was published in China, which was the third time that China published a collection of Amihai poems.