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Saturday, December 23, 2023
US record producer Scooter Braun to Tel Aviv rally: ‘I found a nation of lions’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleJessica Steinberg, The Times of Israel's culture and lifestyles editor, covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center
American record producer Scooter Braun tells the rally for the Gaza hostages in Tel Aviv that he “had to come and stand with my people.”
“I didn’t find a country filled with hate or anger — I found a nation of lions, filled with hope and courage and kindness and it let me know that the hostages will come home,” he says.
“Achshav,” says Braun — “now.”
Braun says he has met with survivors of the Supernova rave, where over 360 revelers were massacred on October 7 and many others were kidnapped. He adds that he will not stop using his voice in the music industry to bring up the topic of the hostages and adds, “Shame on my industry if it doesn’t start speaking up.”
Braun mentions his grandmother, a survivor of Auschwitz, and says the terrorists “made a very big mistake — they thought by acts of October 7, they would break the spirit of Israel, but they not only woke the Jewish people of Israel, but the Jewish people of the Diaspora.
“Am Yisrael Chai. Bring the hostages home.”
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