I Write In Words. And My Words

I'm A Great Believer In Compromises. I Do Not Believe In Capitulation.

A Little More Than A Hundred Years Ago, "tel Aviv" Was Not A City. It Was A Title Of A Novel Written By An Author. The "return To Zion" Was A Name Of Another Novel. There Was A Bookshelf. There Was No Country. There Was No State. There Was No Nation. There Was No Physical Jewish Reality In This Country.

I Work In Hebrew. Hebrew Is Deeply Inspired By Other Languages. Not Now, For The Last Three Thousand Years, Hebrew Has Been Penetrated And Fertilized By Ancient Semitic Languages - By Aramaic, By Greek, By Latin, By Arabic, By Yiddish, By Latino, By German, By Russian, By English, I Could Go On And On. It's Very Much Like English. The English Language Took In Many Many Fertilizations, Many Many Genes, From Other Languages, From Foreign Languages - Latin, French, Nordic Languages, German, Scandinavian Languages. Every Language Has Influences And Is An Influence.

When I Need To Take A Side, I Write A Newspaper Article And I Tell My Government, "you Should Not Do That, You Should Do This." They Don't Listen To Me, But I've Been Doing This For Sixty Years Now. But, When I Write A Novel, I Am Not In That Business.

In My Vocabulary, The Word "compromise" Is Synonymous To The Word "life".