He fights for Wagner to be performed in Israel, for our lives here not to be based on traumas (and was declared persona non grata by the Knesset Education Committee) and, in a protest against militarism, he refused to be interviewed by soldiers in uniform from Army Radio. A citizen of the world, with an Israeli and a Palestinian passport, he fights to turn his near-far country into a more just place. He appears with our philharmonic, but only in Israel – he does not boycott, but he is not prepared to mislead the world. A Palestinian in Ramallah once told him: “You are the first Israeli I’ve met that is not a soldier or a tank.” In my dream I see him called on to be president of Israel, a personage who will captivate Israel and the world, the way Albert Einstein was once called upon. But then I woke up and saw Culture and Sports Minister Limor Livnat scolding him in the Knesset hallway at the Wolf Foundation prize ceremony.Quote
Posted on: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 11:05:39 +0000
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