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.

A. B. Yehoshua is an Israeli novelist, playwright, and essayist. He is one of the most influential writers of modern Hebrew literature and has been described as "the most important Israeli novelist alive today." His works have been translated into over 25 languages. He is best known for his novels The Lover, Five Seasons, A Late Divorce, Mr. Mani, and The Retroactive Man. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the Israel Prize for literature in 1985, the Bialik Prize in 1989, and the Emet Prize in 2009. He is also a professor emeritus of literature at the University of Haifa.