Obituaries

Tzvika Levy, ‘Father of Lone Soldiers,’ dies at 70

Levy received the Israel Prize for Life Achievement last year for his work advocating for lone soldiers and the families of killed Israeli soldiers.

By Marcy Oster December 30, 2018 2:55 pm

Amos Oz, a ‘saintly intellectual’ who turned Israel’s national reality into art

The novelist died at time when so many of the things he stood for — a vital Israeli left, a robust peace process, a vision for sharing the land — are in retreat.

December 28, 2018 11:45 am

Amos Oz, iconic Israeli novelist and peace activist, is dead at 79

(JTA) — Amos Oz, one of Israel’s most widely read and best-known writers, has died. He was 79. The cause was cancer, the Israeli media reported. Barely older than the country he chronicled in dozens of novels, essays and nonfiction books, Oz represented a generation of writers who traced the country’s emotional arc from its […]

December 28, 2018 10:04 am