Switching Stations
What we see in the media feeds
our range of emotions.
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f there is such a thing as a
manic-depressive country, Is-
rael is it. Here we are con-
stantly moving from hope to
fear, from exhilaration to anxi-
ety.
This was reflected in my TV
viewing recently, when, on an
evening when .I very much want-
ed to see two programs, I kept
switching from one to the other.
The first of them was a glori-
ous concert by the Israel
Philharmonic Orchestra, giv-
en within the framework of the
IPO's 60th anniversary. Ap-
pearing with the orchestra were
an unbelievable array of famous
musical artists from around the
world, but — the core group —
Itzhak Perlman, Daniel Baren- ,
boim, Pinchas Zukerman, Shlo-
mo Mintz and Gil Shaham —
were all Israelis.
WE'RE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE
Shlomo Mintz: Violinist.
to time. A drama called "Sex,
Lies and Dinner," it focused on
three war widows who, in the
course of celebrating the birth-
day of one of them, gave expres-
sion to their pressing emotional
problems. They included coping
with the feeling that they had
fallen out of the mainstream of
Israeli society and with their
sexual frustrations.
To deal with the latter, the
hostess had invited a male strip-
per, though his presence aroused
such a sense of disgust among
her two guests that he was im-
mediately asked to leave.
A group of war widows, hear-
ing about the content of the pro-
gram, asked the Israel High
Court of Justice to issue a re-
straining order that would pre-
vent it from being screened. But
the court refused and the pro-
gram went on as
scheduled.
It wasn't great
art, but it wasn't
exploitative or ob-
scene either. And
perhaps more im-
portant than any-
thing else, it
spotlighted the
continuing cost of
a continuing con-
flict, a cost that
tends to be forgot-
ten once the casu-
alty lists have
been published
and life goes back
to what passes for
normality in Is-
rael.
So, like other lo-
cal viewers, I not
only enjoyed a rare
aesthetic experience
by listening to them
play, but also felt a
sense of pride at
what this country
had accomplished,
despite enormous
difficulties, in the
"non-essential"
sphere of music.
The impact of
those difficulties on
the lives of Israeli
people was reflect-
ed in a second pro-
gram screened that
evening, to which I
switched from time
Nechemia Meyers
writes from
Rehovot.
Itzhak Perlman and Shlomo Mintz were part of the core
group of Israeli artists performing with the symphony.