"We're providing answers before you've even asked the question, " said Tamar Yehoshua, Google's director of product development.

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Mr Yehoshua has never been an easy read, yet his work invites mulling over even if it resists easy definitions.

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According to Yehoshua, only 16% of the queries entered into Google in a given day are searches it has never seen before.

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In a subtle send-up of how very odd human beings can be, Mr Yehoshua evokes thoughts of fate, death and how people come to feel that they belong.

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Yehoshua seemed to suggest that geography plays a role.

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"They are partial Jews while I am a complete Jew, " Yehoshua said during a lecture on relations between Israel and Diaspora Jews, referring to American Jewry, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

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Beneath the surface there are signs that Mr Yehoshua is deeply worried about Israel's moral future: not just in the face of war against Hizbullah, for example, but in its very own soul.

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Mr Yehoshua's warmest character is the old bakery owner, a man who ignores the need to sleep he is aware enough to know there will be plenty of time to sleep once he is gone yet who frets about doing the right thing before he dies.

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