“The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.”

—  Amos Oz

"Between Oz and Ayalon" (interview), the Supplement to Shabbat, 21 November 2008, Yedioth Ahronoth, p. 2.

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Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual 1939–2018

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