Deletion of Shmuel Yerushalmi

Comment: Shmuel is not unpublished. I have seen his works in translation in Al Ittihad. His poems were certainly notable enough to gain the attention of the Israeli Internal Security authorities. The references at on the article are sufficient to demonstrate . Protest poets are rare in Israeli society, and I do not know any other case of a poet who has made the transition from right wing Zionism to anti-Zionist communism. He is a contravertial individual and you may not approve of his political ideas. But Wikipedia:Deletion_policy#Abuse_of_deletion_process|the deletion policy clearly states "XfD (deletion) processes are not a way to complain or remove material that is personally disliked, whose perspective is against ones beliefs, or which is not yet presented neutrally
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)

Comment: per .  The poet is "the subject of multiple, non-trivial, reliable published works, whose sources are independent of the subject itself."  He has numerous news articles about himself, about his initiatives, interviews, etc
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)

Comment: Could people please avoid  and discuss whether this man is notable under the criteria of  or not
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:AADD||WP:BIO)

Comment: sorry, but just not notable; not a single |reliable source to be found about this article's subject, just passing mentions in a year-old French news agency article. Should he gain prominence and have actual, |verifiable published material '''about''' him, not merely self-published, then he might have an article. |Wikipedia is not a soap box; inclusion of articles about individuals to promote particular ideologies, without any significance/importance, is just not appropriate
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS||WP:V||WP:NOT)