Singer Ariel Zilber received on Wednesday evening his lifetime achievement award from the Israeli Union of Performing Artists (IUPA), which was not without controversy after leftist singer Achinoam Nini quit the IUPA in a call to boycott Zilber due to his nationalist views.
After accepting the award, Zilber told the audience, "When I got the news that I was going to get a prize, I said - according to Jewish law, no one should get a prize. Either everyone receives a prize or no one does. Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai once said, ‘If you have learned a lot of Torah do not take credit for that because you were created for this purpose.’ So all of us were created for the sake of something - I guess I was created for this.”
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