I have to admit that I was surprised by the amount of coverage in the current events news programmes on television about YG; we were treated to some of his songs, a short film of some people performing a song for a Memorial Day ceremony (in which YG looked skeletal - I doubt that I would have recognised him) and interviews with musicians who had worked with him over his long career. The most surprising event was live coverage of his funeral - generally not something awarded to poets or songwriters. One of the mourners who spoke was Yair Lapid, current leader of the opposition and short serving prime minister.
Of course, all of this was on Channel 12, that is well-known to right wingers as a hot bed of left wing anarchists. I wondered how 'the other side' would relate to his death; although I didn't see it, the Minister for Culture was ridiculed because he couldn't name any songs that YG wrote.
But the more expected reaction was that of extreme right wing Member of Knesset (and lawyer of 22 years, as we are frequently reminded) Tali Gottlieb, who said that "YG did not represent the state of Israel. He represented loose women*, alcholism and drugs" (in a radio interview). Prime Minister Netanyahu, who did not eulogise him, said "One who used to write terrible newspaper columns about the right wing and religious people". Well, what did one expect?
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