The author and winner of the Israel Prize AB Yehoshua passed away at the age of 85

The author Avraham Gabriel Yehoshua, one of the greatest Israeli writers of the last generation, passed away at the age of 85 after several years during which he struggled with cancer.

He has written classics such as "The Mission of the Human Resources Commissioner", "The Lover", "The Return from India" and "Mr. Money"

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Excerpt from an interview with the writer A.B.

Joshua in the "Cultural Agent" program presented by Kobi Meidan here 11, February 2021 (here 11)

Writer Avraham Gabriel Yehoshua passed away at the age of 85, after several years of battling cancer.

Joshua, one of the greatest Israeli writers of the last generation, has written classics such as "Late Divorce", "The Mission of the Human Resources Commissioner", "The Lover", "Return from India" and "Mr. Money".

He continued to publish books in his last years as well - since 2018, "The Tunnel", the only daughter "and" The Third Temple "have been published

. With him in 2020. After treatments and surgery it seemed from the tests he overcame but then the cancer reappeared.This led to him stopping writing.

Joshua was born on December 19, 1936 in Jerusalem.

Among his other books: "The Death of the Old Man", "In Front of the Forests", "Molcho", "Journey to the End of the Millennium", "The Liberating Bride", "Spanish Grace" and "Friendly Fire".

Joshua's work has gained widespread recognition in Israel and around the world.

Joshua has won many literary awards including the Israel Prize for Literature, the Bialik Prize, the Brenner Prize and the Medis Prize for a foreign writer (for "Spanish Grace").

His book "The Woman from Jerusalem" in the English translation of "The Woman from Jerusalem" was included in the list of the 100 best books of the year by the New York Times and the "Publishers Weekly" for 2006. In April 2007 he won the Los Angeles Times Award for his book "His Mission Of the Commissioner for Human Resources "and in 2010 the book is working on a film directed by Eran Riklis.

Other books by Joshua that were adapted into films were "Three Days and a Child", "The Lover",

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Stopped writing when she got sick.

AB Yehoshua (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Joshua is also known for his political activities in which he has expressed great criticism of Israel's policy in Judea, Samaria and Gaza since 1967 and is one of the signatories of the Geneva Initiative.

Towards the end of the Second Lebanon War, he attended a press conference with David Grossman and Amos Oz in which he called on the Israeli government to agree to a ceasefire and not to expand the fighting in Lebanon as it subsequently decided.

Referring to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 2002, he said at a conference at the Alma College of Culture in Tel Aviv: "We have already seen what happened to the Germans."

Following the criticism he provoked, Joshua explained his intention: "I did not make a comparison between Israeli-Palestinian relations and the actions of the Nazis, but I ask myself a question that we must ask: what is the interaction between us and other peoples that creates such rational hatred? What brought the Germans and what brings "The Palestinians for such hatred towards us? I look anxiously at what suicidal hatred the Palestinians treat us. The Germans also treated us with the same kind of hatred. This is something that needs to be clarified, what is happening between us and other peoples in which we live."

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