Death threats forced Irish pop singer Sinead O'Connor to call off a peace concert in Jerusalem in the summer of 1997. At the time, a young man named Itamar Ben-Gvir took credit for the campaign against her. Today, he is Israel's national security minister.
O'Connor, a spirited singer and frequent source of controversy who rocketed to fame in 1990, died on Wednesday in London. While most people remember the star for her hit cover of Prince's ballad"Nothing Compares 2 U" or the uproar that followed her, many Israelis on Thursday recounted an open letter she wrote castigating Ben-Gvir.
Peace in the Holy Land was as controversial then as it is now, and hard-liners like Ben-Gvir oppose any division of Jerusalem. The Palestinians claim east Jerusalem, captured by Israel in 1967, as their capital. "Due to us she is not arriving," he said at the time."We are calling the pressure we put on her not to arrive a success."
This week, the coalition passed the first part of its deeply contentious program to weaken the Supreme Court,and plunged the country into its worst domestic crisis in years.
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