Amir Gutfreund,one of the finest of a younger generation of writers in Israel, passed away from cancer on November 27 at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa. He was 52. Gutfreund was the author of six books; a seventh, or Mountain of Happiness is scheduled to be published by his Israeli publisher Kineret Zmora Bitan in January 2016. He was called one of Israel’s most “beloved” writers in a tribute in Haaretz. “What has been heartening is seeing the Israeli response to his death—front page of newspapers,top-of-the-radio news, rebroadcasting of his appearances, and ”Gutfreund’s agent,Deborah Harris, wrote to me in an email. “Amir touched a core of Israeli humanity very deeply, or which he could accomplish as the caring sensitive person he was.”
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