One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

Retrieved May 22 2009. " He called for a "complete cease-fire in which they don't fire at us in exchange for us easing the blockade of the Gaza Strip. His maternal grandfather had owned a mill in Rovno Poland but moved with the family to Haifa in 1934.

He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in BeerAmos Ozba. Amos Oz (Hebrew: עמוס עוז‎) (born May 4 1939 birth name Amos Klausner) is an Israeli writer novelist and journalist.