00:02What do these Arab, Jewish, Druze and Christian teens have in common?
00:09A passion for setting a tone of healing and harmony through music after two and a half years of war
00:16and isolation.
00:17Almost 12 months in a hotel that I don't know, that's not my house.
00:25And music helped me be myself when I was the most depressed in the world.
00:36Music makes people happy. Music makes people feel. Not everything makes people feel, right?
00:41So that's why I play, why I sing, to prove to the world that there's something that's common from the
00:47whole world.
00:50After a long educational journey of musical coexistence, over 100 young artists took center stage in Jaffa, led by the
00:59effervescent Israeli maestro Tom Cohen of Jerusalem Orchestra East and West.
01:05The secret is very simple. The moment you and me played music together, enough times, even if we didn't speak,
01:13this creates a kind of a bond that I cannot explain.
01:17I had this obsession with Arabic music and it just kept going on. And the only way I could really
01:22satisfy the real need I had for being able to play this music was to actually get an instrument I
01:31could do it.
01:34This new generation of enthusiastic musicians feel a responsibility to sing a new tone for the future.
01:43It's sort of a gateway. It's an opening. It shows us it's a step towards the next level of peace.
02:01The most people who never say the size ofWhen.
02:02So that's about to inspire everybody, and courageously, to surprise me, I'd like to listen.
02:02Themas dream...
02:05...you can give me an instrument of hope to listen to those spaces that this time.
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