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

According to the National Library of Israel's 2021 report, women wrote 52% of Israeli Hebrew literature, a rise of 10 percentage points compared to 2017

Polish Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk and her novel 'The Books of Jacob,' which tells the story of 18th-century Jewish mystical cult leader Jacob Frank, also on prize longlist

Berlin-born writer who helped shape Israeli poetry was a lightning rod for controversy in his later years over a number of political, racial statements

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'

In the first in a series of articles aimed to widen cultural horizons within our virus-narrowed constraints, Mitch Ginsburg extols Meir Shalev's new memoir as a breath of fresh air