"Benarroch tells us that the homeland is always somehwere else, not on
maps, it is the smell of an orange tree in Granada on an evening that
never existed." Jose Luis Garcia Martin, El Mundo, Spain. "One the best
Israeli poets writing today." Natan Zach, haaretz, Israel. "The raging
bull of Israeli literature." Yaron abituv, Kol Hazman, march 2001.
"Benarroch opens a world of emotions, where there is a place for the
stupidity of people and their decisions against minorities, and allis
done with good poetry." Antonio Luis Gines, Cuadernos Del Sur, Spain
"Benarroch transforms permanent exile, the impossibility to adapt and
the eternal escape, into his vital poetics." Xulio Valcarcel, El ideal
gallego, Spain "Benarroch seems to hold in his hands not only the world,
but also the memory of the world as well." Julia Uceda. 2000.
Introduction to "Esquina En Tetuan". Benarroch was awarded the prime
minister literary prize in 2008, and the Yehuda Amichai poetry prize in
2012.