A. B. Yehoshua

Abraham B. Yehoshua (, December 19, 1936 – June 14, 2022) was an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright. "The New York Times" called him the "Israeli Faulkner". Yehoshua was the author of eleven novels, three books of short stories, four plays, and four collections of essays, including "Ahizat Moledet" ("Homeland Lesson", 2008).
Yehoshua died on June 14, 2022 at a hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel from cancer at the age of 85.