Amos Oz, Israeli writer, dies at 79 years old | Pop and Art

"For those who love you, thank you," wrote Fania Oz-Salzberger on the social network.

י האהוב לעולמו ממחלת הסר, ר הידרדרות ירה, ו ובשלווה, וקף והביו.
כבדו את פר טרטיותנ. אוכל להגיב לפניות. ודה למי שאהב אותו.

December 28, 2018

Owner of an extensive literary work, the author has produced novels, essays and reviews since the 1960s. As a writer and political activist he is one of the most recognized intellectuals of his country.

His best-known book is the autobiographical novel "Rhymes of Life and Death" (2003), recognized as a masterpiece of world literature.

Among his works are "My Michael" (1973), "The Black Box" (1988), "Meet a Woman" (1991), Panther in the Basement (1997) and "The Same Sea" (2002). 19659007] Amos was born in Jerusalem on May 4, 1939 to a family of Russian and Polish origin, changing his family name in 1954 from Klausner to Oz, a Hebrew word for "strength, courage". left his hometown to work in kibbutz Hulda.

He published his first news in his local periodical in the late twenties, where for 25 years he divided his time between writing and writing.

As a reserve soldier, Amos fought at Sinai during the Six Day War of 1967 and on the Golan Heights during the Yom Kippur War in October 1973. [19659010] During this period, the author has published several articles and essays on the Arab-Israeli conflict, in which he extols an Israeli-Palestinian compromise based on on mutual recognition and coexistence between Israel and a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. His work on the subject has been translated worldwide.

In the 1960s, the writer was also active in the social-democratic group Min Hayesod, who opposed the personality cult that surrounded the then Israeli prime minister, David Ben Gurion.