I hope that my new status will be an example of Israeli-Palestinian co-existence, I believe that the destinies of the Israeli people and the Palestinian people are inextricably linked.
There are probably many people in Israel who believe that Wagner, who died in 1883, lived in Berlin in 1942 and was friends with Hitler.
I have the greatest respect for the survivors of the Holocaust. We can't even imagine what these people went through.
Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music.
I think there were people in the press who knew the truth, but who regarded Jackie as a national treasure - quite rightly - and didn't want to cause her any distress.