I have heard Ori Kam on several occasions over the last few years and have always been deeply impressed with his playing. He possesses a rare combination of musical talent, technical facility, intelligence, and charisma, and he is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary young artists I have heard in recent years.

The Germans are prisoners of their past.

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.

Germany will never be a real, free thinking and free feeling friend of Israel, because it will always fall under this shadow.

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

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

I don't believe that the entire world is constantly anti-Semitic.