In his later years, after the death of his first wife, he married the Israeli literary scholar and a translator Dorothea Krook-Gilead, who translated many of his poems into English.
Po smrti manželky se v roce 1968 oženil s izraelskou literátkou a překladatelkou Dorotheou Krook-Gilead, která přeložila řadu jeho básní do angličtiny.