Occupation: Writer Birth: May 4, 1939
All you can see, if you look through the window - everything you see is a fulfillment of dreams, different dreams..
In some of the Israeli media, but not all, they read about very nasty things done by Israeli settlers and soldiers to Palestinian Arabs. This is a pa….
I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies. I write about rec….
Recently with IS and Islamist fanaticism, it has become easy for the Israeli government to simply push the Palestinian struggle for self-determinatio….
"The State of the Jews" was not a title of a country. It was a title of a futuristic novel..
Literature may make the reader reexamine some of his or her own conventions, look at himself or herself in a different way, look at others in a diffe….
The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out..
Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by Latin, ….
The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. All of them take place in Israel - in Jerusalem, in the desert, in the kibbutz, in small ….
D.H. Lawrence, I think, defined the difference between writing an article and writing a novel very well. He said, in writing a novel, the writer must….
The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic..
Think about Elizabethan English, where the entire English language behaved pretty much like molten lava, like a volcano in mid-eruption. Modern Hebre….
In writing a novel, the writer must be able to identify emotionally and intellectually with two or three or four contradicting perspectives and give ….
Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words..
I have been saying again and again that the case of Israel and Palestine, the case of Israel and the Arab world, and indeed the case of Israel and Eu….
Different musical instruments provide for different music..
Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the r….
When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that, you should do this." They don't listen to ….
Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings?.
Sometimes, recently Israeli-Palestinian conflict is indeed a clash between wrong and wrong. It is not as simple as fascism was. Every decent man had ….
The whole Zionist project was based on a whole spectrum of different and even conflicting dreams and visions..