I'm a great believer in compromises. I do not believe in capitulation..

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 ….

Israel is imperfect, of course it is - a far cry from the monumental dreams of the founding fathers. One of the reasons is that their dreams were unr….

The far right is saying to us: Forget about the two-state solution, it is going to be a Jewish state from the coast to Jordan. The left wing says you….

Literature is about telling stories..

In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather..

You know, gynecology has a role; sex is a gift. And literature is not about sending messages..

I know that a translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano. You can do this. You can do this very successfully ….

The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic..

I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists. Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young peo….

This bloody conflict has been going on for much too long. It is doing terrible things to Israelis, to Palestinians. One of the terrible things it is ….

I don't think a novel's main donation, main gift, is the document. The document is there, but a novel goes beyond documentation. It goes into opening….

I recommend the art of slow reading..

I think there are one or two things similar in Elizabethan English and contemporary Hebrew. This is not to say that every one of us Israeli writers i….

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 ….

I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists..

When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But no….

All you can see, if you look through the window - everything you see is a fulfillment of dreams, different dreams..

The whole Zionist project was based on a whole spectrum of different and even conflicting dreams and visions..

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 ….

I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment..