2: Israeli peace activist and novelist AMOS OZ (pronounced AH-mos not A-mos). He lived on a kibbutz for many years and is a veteran of the Six-Day War in 1967 and the Yom Kippur War in 1973. OZ is a leading acivist for peace between the Arabs and the Israelis. His new book is called "Fima" (Harcourt Brace), he has written eleven novels in all. AMOS OZ received the German Publishers Peace Prize in 1992.
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