Possible Clues:

• Amos Oz, for one
• Begin, perhaps, biblical work facing artist and priest
• Citizen of modern state taking lead from British statesman
• National airlines collapse with no end of competition
• Shekel earner
• Levantine beheads Victorian novelist
• Middle Eastern King is about to invade small islands
• Former Prime Minister executed by one from the Middle East
• Netanya native
• Like most kibbutzniks