Aviv Geffen and Avraham Fried: We are messengers to unite the People

• Published date: 18 December 2020
• Author: Rafael Levi
• Date: 18 December 2020
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

"I'm here in Tel Aviv in the studio," Geffen told Fried, "the song came to me and I am completely in tears and with chills. Listen, I couldn't have imagined it."

"When the song was written I said I wish, I wish I could sing with you and I want to say thank you very much for the courage. It takes a lot of courage to connect your whole audience to my audience and that is perhaps the most important message. The connections, unity in Israel and in the world. Thank you, it is a great honor for me," he added.

Fried replied to Geffen, "Aviv, I pray we will be messengers to unite the People especially these days that everyone goes through what he does. If there was a need for unity all these years then there certainly is even more so now, and I have a good feeling it will successfully strengthen and unite the people."

Later in the conversation, Geffen noted that the coronavirus also connected them. "If they had asked me and you a year ago, before the coronavirus, if we would meet, we would have either avoided doing so or would have been afraid, and in the song 'Drought' we sing 'I'm your brother do not forget.' Since we are all essentially brothers, and this has been forgotten in all the incitement and hatred and the pain, and we became...