https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jun/26/guardianobituaries.israel
“To his adversaries Kimmerling was a tendentious polemicist who let ideological bias overrule academic sobriety and gave succour to Israel’s foes. Yet he called himself a patriot, and while decrying the “monstrous practices of Zionism” he valued Israel’s “islands of marvellous humanism and creativity”. He feared that a one-state solution to the Israel-Palestine dilemma would just cause further Balkanisation and bloodshed in the Middle East, and he opposed boycotts of Israeli universities.
Kimmerling lectured for nearly 40 years at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also held a chair at Toronto University, and compiled textbooks for Israel’s Open University. All his life he suffered the effects of childhood cerebral palsy. He was repeatedly hospitalised, had extreme difficulty speaking and spent his last three decades in a wheelchair. Despite his ailments, he enjoyed attending conferences and mentoring students. He wrote nine books, hundreds of essays and numerous newspaper articles.”
How my heart sings 