These Jewish icons leave outsized legacies in politics, the arts, sports, and everything in between

Influential author, the recipient of the Israel Prize and dozens of other awards was also known as a sharp-tongued polemicist and staunch Zionist

A journalist, screenwriter, thinker and translator of some of Israel's greatest writers, Schoffman was known for his words and warmth; colleague recalls a 'genius and a mensch'

In conversation with ToI to mark release of new book, 'The Tunnel,' the writer says, 'We have to integrate the Palestinians into Israel, by the right or the left'