"Israelis are the total Jews." — A. B. Yehoshua

Our synagogues are spread all over the world, and we want people to respect them and look after them. And we have to respect the places of prayer of others.

For 50 years - that is, for most of my adult life - I worked tirelessly for the two-state solution in the face of countless frustrations, both on the part of the Israeli governments and the Palestinian Authority.

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

World War II was a trauma that paralysed writers. It was something metaphysical, diabolical.

I was proud my father spoke Arabic fluently - his father sent him to learn Arabic from a sheikh - and we had Arab friends. His task of understanding the Arabs - not only politics but poetry - was very important; he took it as a vocation.

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

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Israelis are the total Jews.