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השבועה לירושלים - עקיבא נוף עם ג'ון לנון ויוקו אונו

מילים ולחן: עקיבא נוףשנת הקלטה: 1969הסיפור: ב-1969 כאשר היה סטודנט אלמוני בהולנד, זכה עקיבא נוף לפרסום כעיתונאי הישראלי היחיד שזכה לשוחח בראיון ע

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The story:
In 1969, when he was an anonymous student in the Netherlands, Akiva Nof became famous as the only Israeli journalist to speak in a comprehensive press interview with John Lennon, star of "The Beetles" and his wife Yoko Ono in their bed at a hotel in Amsterdam, where they held a bed strike. In the world.

Nof even taught Lennon to sing an excerpt from Nof's song "The Oath to Jerusalem" which was originally written for a military band ".. During this exclusive interview recorded, the two performed a house from the song, and this is the one and only time the lead singer of" The Beatles "performs a song in Hebrew.

Landscape: I also worked in the press and interviewed John Lennon and Yoko Ono as they held the Peace Conference on their honeymoon in their bed in a hotel in Amsterdam, where they held their resounding strike for world peace. And there I also sang with them the song "The Oath to Jerusalem" Lennon and Ono sang in Hebrew, according to my words and melody, when he
Accompanies himself on guitar: "Jerusalem, we have all sworn, - we will never leave you from here forever." And not bad, that the spoon in the word "Nafkirch" is pronounced by the Englishman from Liverpool as if it were "Shin".

- How did you meet Lennon in the Netherlands?
Landscape: In 1969 I won a scholarship from Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands, to study at the Institute for Social Studies
Which is in The Hague, the capital of the Netherlands. Together with students from Yugoslavia, USA, Sweden, Egypt,
And even the son of Amir of Abu Dhabi, who had bad relations with me, making sure not to be, though
Once, in a photo shared with me, I lived and studied in one of the Queen Mother palaces. The days were devoted to seminary studies in international relations, and the nights - drew me in all the intensity of the Seventies revelry
To the celebrating Amsterdam and its clubs.
As an additional source of enjoyment and income, I also served as a freelance reporter for the news diary of the "Voice of Israel" in the Netherlands. As such, I then interviewed NATO Secretary General, the Jewish-Soviet violinist David Austria, who was afraid to speak, an indirect interview with King Hussein, and even Yeruham Mashel, at an international conference of trade union secretaries. One morning I was called by a friend from Tel Aviv, who informed me that according to the Haaretz newspaper, John Lennon, from the Beatles, and his wife, Yoko Ono, were supposed to hold a press conference, out of their bed, in a suite at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam. Name "lay strike" for peace

The interview was long?

Landscape: It was a very spontaneous interview, "," I did not prepare questions because I was sure that even if I met them it would be a snap. Anyway I asked him questions in a style very similar to what Yair Lapid is doing today in his show. Short questions that require short answers. To my disappointment, every question of mine Lennon answered was either "God" or "Love" or "Peace." "Somehow the creative resemblance of the poet and composer Lennon was not expressed during the interview."

And Yoko adds: "It's not age, it's the way of thinking."
No, he does not see himself, he says, as the representative of the young, but as one who speaks to them.
He does not seek to march his fans to war against the establishment as a whole. "To the establishment," says John,
"There are also good sides: marriage, for example, is an institutional phenomenon. Just as Yoko and I are married."
Then Yoko jumps up and says, "The establishment will die anyway and we young people will come in its place."

. "Peace," John replied to my question, and I record, "Peace, means peace, the absence of violence. There is no intellectualization of the concept. All talk of 'positive peace' and 'negative peace' is meaningless. I protest against violence in all its forms." ,
And Lennon emphasizes: "I also protest against violence for peace !, and if violence is a mental need
For some people, to manage it so