[5] Kenan was a member of the Lehi underground, which the British authorities called “the Stern Gang.” In 1989 he told The Guardian: "I joined because it was an anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist organisation…We didn't fight the Arabs.

When his wife, Prof. Nurith Gertz did her research for a biographical novel about him and as he was already suffering from Alzheimer's, he mentioned at one point that he may or may not have shot an Arab woman there.

[8][9] The Independent's Daphna Baram writes that Kenan's account of the attack on the village and his role in it varied over the course of his life.

[7] Kenan eventually told his wife, Nurith Gertz, as well as close friends and colleagues, that he really was involved in the bombing.

[7] Pierre Alechinsky illustrated two of his books and Maurice Béjart adapted his plays, which were mounted in Paris and Switzerland.

[20][21] He returned to Israel in 1962 and began writing a weekly column in Yediot Aharonot that ran for forty years.

He edited a newspaper named "Tzipor HaNefesh" ("The bird of the soul") with Dahn Ben-Amotz, and contributed articles to The New York Times and The Nation.

After the Six-Day War he was sent by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs to interview intellectuals such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Herbert Marcuse and Noam Chomsky on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

[5] The World Zionist Organization arranged a lecture tour of American universities, intended to combat the increasingly anti-Israel stance of the campus left.

It also said that "a writer or playwright to lash out to his heart's content at fallen religious figures through the use of criticism or satire, but that portraying God himself on stage in a way that is contemptuous of believers' faith is beyond the bounds of what is legally permissible here".

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-188610/ In 1984 he published The Road to Ein Harod, a dystopian novel which portrays a future Israel in the grip of a civil war following a military coup.

His book To Your Country, To Your Homeland served as a basis for Moti Kirschenbaum's documentary series To the Water Wells, which portrayed a meeting between two patriots in disagreement — Kenan and Naomi Shemer.