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Why would anyone force Israel's basketball team to go to a classical music concert? Unless that's not what it was ...
The point of today’s post is the video, below, of Israel’s national basketball team, “forced” to attend a “classical music concert” before departing for an international competition. Some people I know watch the players and thought that they were kind of into the music. I read it as their being polite.
In any event, to understand the event in the video, we first need to know about this song, Al Tira Yisrael, “Do not fear, Israel.” It’s hugely popular in Israel (the clip above is from an IDF Rabbinate video), and there are countless performances online (just copy and search for אל תירא ישראל)…
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