Amos Oz, Israeli novelist and peace advocate, dies at 79

Amos Oz, one of Israel’s most celebrated and prolific authors, who came to embody the young state’s literary spirit and preoccupations, died Friday in Tel Aviv. He was 79 and had been fighting cancer.

His daughter, Fania Oz-Salzberger, announced his death in a tweet in which, like many Israelis,…