I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, on….

Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right..

No human being really begins on the day which appears in the passport as their date of birth. We all begin much much much earlier..

The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death..

The reconciliation is not based on the fact that one of the characters opens his eyes and says, "O brother! O sister! How terrible I was! How right a….

Things can be translated, but they become different..

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….

In fact, every one of us - every nation, every individual begins hundreds, perhaps thousands of years prior to the date that appears in the passport..

Almost every modern literary form existed in Hebrew two thousand years ago. And, yes, it existed even during the middle ages..

The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole idea of the State of Israel versus ….

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..

But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition an….

Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by Latin, ….

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….

What is likely to happen? Either an escalation of violence or an entire change in the whole Middle East theater. It may well happen, and I say this t….

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….

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words..

We all begin much much much earlier. In fact, every one of us - every nation, every individual begins hundreds, perhaps thousands of years prior to t….

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 say compromise I do not mean capitulation. When I say compromise I definitely do not mean what Jesus Christ meant when he offered us to turn o….

Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings?.