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David Grossman

David Grossman is an Israeli author. His novel A Horse Walks Into a Bar won the 2017 Man Booker International Prize

July 2023

  • Protestors in Jerusalem on 23 July.

    Here’s why we march against Netanyahu’s power grab: it’s a fight for Israel’s life as a democratic state

    David Grossman
    We must oppose plans to restrain the judiciary, portions of which were backed by the Knesset today. Everything is at stake, says the Israeli author David Grossman

January 2020

  • Amos Oz in 2014.

    Amos Oz expressed the painful turbulence of Israeli life

    David Grossman
    In his books, he helped us face ourselves. A year after his death, we still mourn him, says the Israeli author David Grossman

September 2016

  • Shimon Peres<br>FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 8, 2016  file photo, Israel's former President Shimon Peres poses for a portrait at the Peres Center for Peace in Jaffa, Israel. Israel's Foreign Ministry says a long list of world leaders will attend Shimon Peres' funeral on Friday. Spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said Wednesday that President Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Pope Francis, Prince Charles and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are all expected. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

    Shimon Peres did great things, but he failed in what mattered to him the most

    David Grossman
    He never gave up, but he knew a disastrous future was being built for both Israelis and Palestinians

October 2015

  • Binyamin Netanyahu surveys the Gaza border region – forgetting to remove the lens caps from his field glasses

    We have been given a frightful glimpse into Netanyahu’s mind

    David Grossman
    Our PM has masterfully mixed and stirred the true dangers facing Israel with the echoes of Holocaust trauma, creating a net to ensnare the majority of Israelis

March 2012

  • Iranian Nuclear Scientist Killed in Tehran

    It is Israel's fears, not a nuclear Iran, that we must tame

    David Grossman

    David Grossman: Israelis must resist Netanyahu's rhetoric. An attack on Iran will bring certain disaster, to forestall one that might never come

June 2010

  • The Gaza flotilla attack shows how far Israel has declined

    David Grossman
    David Grossman: The closure of Gaza is the consequence of a clumsy, calcified policy, which resorts by default to the use of massive force

December 2008

  • Let us stop. Hold our fire. Restraint is our duty to the innocent of Gaza

    David Grossman

    David Grossman: Israel has much to gain from reinstating a ceasefire and inviting the international community to mediate with Hamas