Beaches is a novel written by Iris Rainer Dart about two friends, struggling actress Cee Cee Bloom and the conventional Bertie White (changed to Hilary Whitney in the film).
 The story follows them through their life as young girls until their mid-to-late 30s.
The Ben Yehuda Street bombings refer to a series of attacks by Palestinian Arabs and suicide bombers on civilians in downtown Jerusalem, Israel in 1948 and later on.
 The attacks were carried out on Ben Yehuda Street, a major thoroughfare, later a pedestrian mall, named for the founder of modern Hebrew, Eliezer Ben Yehuda.
Yehuda Julio Glantz (Hebrew: יהודה חוליו גלאנץ‎ ‎ ; born March 19, 1958 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a musician composer, singer, songwriter and producer living in Jerusalem Israel.
 Glantz is a multi-instrumentalist playing on the Charango, piano, accordion, siku, pinkillu, guitar, flute, cuatro and is also a percussionist.
 Yehuda has twice received the first place award in the klezmer Safed festival for his performance and compositions.
 In 2008, Yehuda founded the Regalim Festival in the City Center of Jerusalem.
 The festival takes place during both Sukkoth and Passover holidays and attracts thousands of visitors from around the world.
Yehuda Amichai (Hebrew: יהודה עמיחי‎ ‎ ; ‎ 3 May 1924 – 22 September 2000) was an Israeli poet.
 Amichai is considered by many, both in Israel and internationally, as Israel's greatest modern poet.
 He was also one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew.
The People in the Picture is a musical with book and lyrics by Iris Rainer Dart and music by Mike Stoller and Artie Butler.
 The musical is about a grandmother recalling her life in the Yiddish theater and the Holocaust.
Jaffa Road (Hebrew: רחוב יפו‎ ‎ , "Rehov Yaffo", Arabic: شارع يافا‎ ‎ ) is one of the longest and oldest major streets in Jerusalem, Israel.
 It crosses the city from east to west, from the Old City walls to downtown Jerusalem, the western portal of Jerusalem and the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway.
 It is lined with shops, businesses, and restaurants.
 It joins with Ben Yehuda Street and King George Street to form the Downtown Triangle central business district.
 Major landmarks along Jaffa Road are Tzahal Square (IDF square), Safra Square (city hall), Zion Square, Davidka Square, the "Triple" intersection ("Hameshulash") at King George V Street and Straus Street, the Ben Yehuda Street pedestrian mall, the Mahane Yehuda market, and the Jerusalem Central Bus Station.
 Jaffa Road has been redeveloped as a car-free pedestrian mall served by the Jerusalem Light Rail.
Beaches (also known as Forever Friends) is a 1988 American comedy-drama film adapted by Mary Agnes Donoghue from the Iris Rainer Dart novel of the same name.
 It was directed by Garry Marshall, and stars Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, Mayim Bialik, John Heard, James Read, Spalding Gray, and Lainie Kazan.
Iris Rainer Dart (born March 3, 1944) is an American author and playwright for television and the stage.
 Her most notable novel is "Beaches", which was made into a 1988 film of the same name.
 She has also written several stage musicals as well as for television shows, such as "The Sonny and Cher Show".
 She also voiced Donna, Peter Cottontail's love interest, in the stop-motion Easter classic, Here Comes Peter Cottontail.
Struga Poetry Evenings (SPE) (Macedonian: Струшки вечери на поезијата , СВП; tr.
 "Struški večeri na poezijata", "SVP") is an international poetry festival held annually in Struga, Macedonia.
 During the several decades of its existence, the Festival has awarded its most prestigious award, the Golden Wreath, to some of the most notable international poets, including: Mahmoud Darwish, Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan Agyey, W. H. Auden, Joseph Brodsky, Allen Ginsberg, Bulat Okudzhava, Pablo Neruda, Eugenio Montale, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Artur Lundkvist, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Nichita Stănescu, Ted Hughes, Ko Un, Adunis, Makoto Ooka, Miroslav Krleža, Yehuda Amichai, Seamus Heaney, Tomas Gösta Tranströmer, Bei Dao, and domestic authors such as Blaže Koneski, Mateja Matevski.
Nora Nadjarian is an Armenian–Cypriot poet and short story writer.
 She writes in English and Armenian, as well as Greek.
 Her writing mostly centres on the island of Cyprus, especially the partition of Cyprus into North and South, though there are numerous works of universal themes.
 A frequent participant in international competitions, poetry festivals, literary conferences and other projects, her poems and short stories have also appeared in numerous anthologies around the world including Cyprus, United Kingdom, United States of America, Germany, India, New Zealand and Israel.
 The writer has said that her work is inspired by Sylvia Plath and Yehuda Amichai.
 Paul Celan, Pablo Neruda and Sharon Olds are a few other idols that she has mentioned.

Question: Which author is from Israel, Yehuda Amichai or Iris Rainer Dart?
Answer: Yehuda Amichai