December 9, 1936 - June 14, 2022
Israeli novelist, essayist and playwright
Author of "Five Seasons" (for which he won the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction in 1990), "Mr. Mani" (for which he won the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction in 1993) and "A Woman in Jerusalem" (for which he won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction in 2006)