Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

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.

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

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

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