US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.

I have the greatest respect for the survivors of the Holocaust. We can't even imagine what these people went through.

In the long term, Israel's security rests on only one pillar: the Palestinians' acceptance of the country. It isn't the atom bomb that makes Israel secure.

I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when they come to the concert hall they listen to it in the same way.

The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.

An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place.