Diagnosed with cancer in November1997, Friend died in Jerusalem on January 12 of the following year.

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In 1999, a posthumous volume of Friend's translations, edited by Gabriel Levin, was published as Found in Translation: A Hundred Years of Modern Hebrew Poetry; and in 2003 a volume of his poetry, edited by Edward Field, was published as Dancing with a Tiger: Poems 1941-1998.

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