{"id":126079,"date":"2026-05-22T11:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/126079\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T11:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:35:10","slug":"the-lost-leonard-cohen-concerts-in-israel-may-finally-see-the-light-of-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/126079\/","title":{"rendered":"The lost Leonard Cohen concerts in Israel may finally see the light of day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows about Leonard Cohen\u2019s visit to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Israel<\/a> in 1973 when he spontaneously parachuted into Israel to entertain IDF troops on the front during the Yom Kippur War. Especially since the publication of Matti Friedman\u2019s comprehensive<\/p>\n<p>Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai \u2013 a celebrated book that recounts that visit of the Jewish Canadian high priest of poetry to the Holy Land, and the subsequent theater performance that has evolved from it \u2013 that moment in time has been captured and dissected from every angle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">But much less is known about another eventful convergence of the stars between Israel and Cohen, some 37 years before he returned to the Holy Land in 2009 for his monumental concert at Ramat Gan Stadium, complete with the Birkat Kohanim (Priestly Blessing) bestowed upon a stunned crowd of devotees.<\/p>\n<p>In 1972, a year before his historic Yom Kippur visit, a not-so-famous and professionally struggling Cohen and his band arrived in Israel for two concerts, in Jerusalem and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-896605\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tel Aviv<\/a>. Both shows are legend, not as much for the music as for the drama surrounding them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In Jerusalem, Cohen suffered an onstage crisis, spurred by ingesting a tab of LSD before the show, went offstage at intermission and shaved, coming back to perform a stunning second half.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Cohen with then-manager Robert Kory at the Coachella festival in Indio, California, 2009.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"822\" height=\"829\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/721840.jpeg\"\/>Cohen with then-manager Robert Kory at the Coachella festival in Indio, California, 2009. (credit: Robert Kory)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The show in Tel Aviv, at the Yad Eliyahu sports arena, was marred by clashes between the audience and members of the event\u2019s security detail, who were preventing them from getting close to the stage.<\/p>\n<p>Snippets of film and audio from those shows have emerged over the years, along with a recounting in Friedman\u2019s book. It was also touched on visually in a somewhat sensational and inaccurate manner in a 1974 documentary, Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire by Tony Palmer, which was quickly taken out of circulation upon its release, at Cohen\u2019s request, and subsequently by Sony and the Cohen estate after an unauthorized DVD recut by Palmer was re-released in 2010.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The irony is that extensive audio and video footage of both the Jerusalem and Tel Aviv shows exists \u2013 along with hours of Cohen at various spots in Israel, including at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/politics-and-diplomacy\/article-896608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Western Wall<\/a> \u2013 but has remained locked up since Cohen\u2019s death in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In March, however, the likelihood that those artifacts \u2013 along with a vast archive of Cohen\u2019s music, art, writings, and film \u2013 would become available to Cohen\u2019s fans increased slightly with the partial conclusion of a lawsuit brought on by his two children, Adam and Lorca, against his former manager and the trustee of the Cohen estate, Robert Kory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">For years, the children have been blocking Kory\u2019s plan to make the archive available through donation to preeminent Canadian universities and museums. Their tactic was to accuse Kory of misconduct in his role as trustee. But in a March 24 ruling, a court-appointed referee found, after a 10-day trial, that Kory had fully and competently carried out Cohen\u2019s wishes in his management of the estate and had committed no wrongdoing whatsoever. In fact, the referee went so far as to say that the claim of Kory\u2019s alleged fraud was a \u201cflaming red herring of scarlet proportion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Magazine spoke with Kory about the lawsuit, Cohen\u2019s complicated relationship with Israel, and his final trip to the Jewish state in 2009. And Robert de Young \u2013 an Australian filmmaker, literary studies academic, and archivist \u2013 whom Kory tapped in 2017 to take charge of going through the reams and reams of notebooks and hours of music and film that Cohen had left behind \u2013 delves into the projects that are ready to roll, including the holy grail of the 1972 concerts in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Robert Kory arrived in Israel in 2009 with his client and friend Cohen ahead of the singer\u2019s show at Ramat Gan Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The California-based attorney had stepped in to assist with Cohen\u2019s affairs in 2004 following a financial disaster resulting from a previous manager stealing the singer-songwriter\u2019s life savings. By 2008, Kory had been so successful in assisting Cohen that the bard tapped him to become his personal manager and support a late career renaissance in which Cohen rose to international stardom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Cohen, who died in 2016 aged 82, was received like the upper-echelon artist he was over the course of 147 shows around the globe between 2008 and 2010 alone.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"The audience in Ramat Gan about to receive the Priestly Blessing from Cohen.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"822\" height=\"829\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/721843.jpeg\"\/>The audience in Ramat Gan about to receive the Priestly Blessing from Cohen. (credit: FLASH90)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">When Cohen was inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, presenter Lou Reed said, \u201cWe are so lucky to be alive at the same time Leonard Cohen is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The singer\u2019s return to the limelight was a mixed blessing, as he was not comfortable in the public eye.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeonard was very reluctant at first to go back on tour. From his view, touring had always been a disaster \u2013 he would say, \u2018Performing is an opportunity for a thousand humiliations,\u2019\u201d Kory told Billboard magazine earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>When I met Kory in a big reception tent outside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-895246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ramat Gan<\/a> Stadium before the 2009 show, he wore the same tailored suit and fedora as his boss, and he was on a high. He had staged a coup in arranging the Israel show because it was a low priority, given all of the lucrative opportunities that Cohen had to perform elsewhere at the height of his resurgence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Although performing in Israel seemed to Kory like a no-brainer, given Cohen\u2019s history with the country, it was a hard sell.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Leonard didn\u2019t want to play in Israel&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeonard didn\u2019t want to play in Israel at first, but he allowed me to explore the possibility and I learned there was a huge demand,\u201d Kory told the Magazine recently, a few weeks after the court ruling in his favor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Cohen, upset over the continuing Israel-Palestinian conflict and the ongoing struggles surrounding the future of the Jewish state, \u201cdidn\u2019t want to play because of the politics and was troubled by making money in the middle of a conflict,\u201d Kory said, having discussed the issue extensively with Cohen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cSo I said, \u2018Well, what if we do it as a charity event?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Together, they devised a plan that made sense to them: to not treat the show as just another stop on a global tour but to establish a fund that would benefit coexistence efforts between Israelis and Palestinians, and also set up a sister show in Ramallah, alongside Ramat Gan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cLeonard immediately goes to the web and finds this organization called the Parents Circle, which was founded by one of the most noble human beings I\u2019ve met, Yitzhak Frankenthal, whose son was killed by Hamas at a bus stop, and who had an epiphany, when at first he wanted revenge, he realized that hatred can only stop in one heart at a time, and he declared that it was going to stop with his. So he set up this organization of Israeli and Palestinian parents who\u2019ve lost their children,\u201d Kory said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The Ramallah concert didn\u2019t materialize due to politics and pressure, despite the great interest in the concert among the Palestinians whom Kory met and, to his surprise, were familiar with Cohen\u2019s work. Instead, Kory arranged for 400 Palestinian bereaved parents to attend the Ramat Gan concert, which was a huge success, both artistically and financially, raising over $3 million for the Fund for Reconciliation, Tolerance and Peace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Kory returned to the region many times over the next couple of years to be hands-on in administering the charitable funds, but he and Cohen began souring on the prospects of their efforts bearing fruit, amid increasing tensions between Israelis and Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cI seemed to know more Palestinians than the typical Israeli whom I met, and I had closer relationships with many wonderful people,\u201d Kory said. \u201cBut, by 2012, Leonard discouraged me from continuing to visit Israel and the West Bank in what appeared to be an increasingly conflicted environment. Leonard feared I would get hurt because I had no real understanding of the conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cLeonard was a huge personal defender of Israel but recognized the reality of evil in the world, and he thought my views were na\u00efve. Leonard told me, \u2018You know, music doesn\u2019t really make a difference, but it does somehow make things better,\u2019\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cHe definitely realized the impact of his performance on the Israeli people. But he also realized the limits of what he could do as an entertainer to have any major impact on peace between Israelis and Palestinians,\u201d Kory added. At Cohen\u2019s request, Kory became executor of his estate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In the last year of his life, Cohen talked more intimately with Kory about his archive and his legacy, and he asked Kory to serve not just as the trustee of his estate but to continue as a manager under a management agreement with his publishing and recording companies to continue expanding Cohen\u2019s audience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cIn 2016, based on the tremendous success that I\u2019d had with Leonard, he asked me to continue managing his businesses and his intellectual property. We weren\u2019t expecting him to pass away so quickly, but he fell. He was a prophet in the classic Old Testament sense. Maybe he had intuitions about his death. I was surprised at the intensity of his request that I commit to continuing to manage his affairs, so I agreed to do that for five, a maximum of seven years,\u201d Kory said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">With so much material in Cohen\u2019s archive, Kory saw an opportunity to permanently etch Cohen into the upper echelon of 20th-century artists.<\/p>\n<p>Some of his efforts following Cohen\u2019s death produced fruits. He executive-produced the film Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song released by Sony Pictures Classics and screened at the Jerusalem Film Festival in 2022, about the history of the timeless 1984 Cohen song that has achieved a life of its own.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) hosted Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows, an exhibition and an accompanying catalogue that showcased items from the Leonard Cohen Family Trust, which includes personal notebooks, lyrics, photographs, and artwork.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also had a contract to publish five books. The first one came out in 2022 \u2013 A Ballet of Lepers \u2013 a novel that Leonard wrote when he was 21. And there are four to be drawn from unpublished work in the archive. We had his entire musical archive digitized, and we had a plan for 10 box sets with Sony, \u00e0 la Bob Dylan bootleg series that has been so popular,\u201d Kory said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cAnd we had this completed film of the 1972 tour, with complete versions of concerts in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv that had never been seen before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">KORY ALSO set in motion avenues to generate revenue from the Cohen estate, benefiting Cohen\u2019s children and grandchildren, of which Kory earned a percentage. In the largest single transaction, he arranged the sale of Cohen\u2019s music catalogue to the Hipgnosis publishing company for $60 million in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cAs I promised Leonard, I consulted with Adam and Lorca after he died. I kept them informed. I sent them financial statements every month. I met with them quarterly. They knew everything that was going on and then, because of the bubble in music publishing, I had an opportunity to sell Leonard\u2019s music publishing to some very good people at an extraordinary price, which I did successfully. That was in my sixth year as manager,\u201d Kory said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Adam, Lorca, and the Trust collected over $50 million, and Kory gained a 12.25% management fee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cAnd at that point I thought, you know, I had the film coming out. I had a five-book contract with Penguin Random House. The archive was completely digitized, and we had Canadian patrons that were going to buy the archive and give it to universities for study. Adam and Lorca stood to make an additional $15 million each. I thought, \u2018My job is done, I have some other projects that are very important to me. I can turn it all over to Adam Cohen.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">However, later that year, Adam and Lorca filed suit in probate court in California alleging that Kory had \u201cfraudulently installed himself\u201d as trustee in 2017, \u201cpilfered the estate\u201d for six years, and ran the estate like a \u201cblack box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">To counter these broad general claims, Kory filed a petition for Approval of Accounting and Ratification of Trustee Acts in December 2023. The Probate Court appointed retired judge Glen Reiser to conduct a trial on Kory\u2019s petition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">After a 10-day trial, presentation of witnesses, thousands of pages of documentary evidence, and cross-examination, Reiser rejected all of Adam and Lorca\u2019s claims in their entirety and recommended that the Probate Court approve Kory\u2019s petition in full.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">As to the claim that Kory installed himself fraudulently, the referee found that Kory performed multiple roles as trustee, business manager, and personal manager as Cohen had intended, competently, and for compensation well within industry standards. Regarding the claim that Kory pilfered the estate, the referee rejected this allegation in full and confirmed that Kory generated tens of millions of dollars for Adam and Lorca and that Kory\u2019s fees and expenses were all reasonable, disclosed, and well within proper bounds for the services provided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Notably, the referee also faulted Adam Cohen for blocking the sale of his father\u2019s archive, which includes over 240 notebooks, tens of thousands of manuscript pages, original drawings and paintings, which was appraised at one point at $48 million.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Variety report on the trial, Kory testified in late January and early February, saying that Leonard Cohen had warned him while he was alive that his son might interfere in the management of the estate. Kory quoted Leonard Cohen as saying that his son might commit a metaphorical \u201cpatricide\u201d in order to get out of his shadow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cHe said, \u2018Look, my son is Hamlet,\u2019\u201d Kory testified. \u201c\u2018He\u2019s a prince haunted by his father\u2019s ghost, who poisons everyone he touches\u2026 I want to make sure you\u2019re making the final decisions.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kory expressed puzzlement and sadness to the Magazine over Adam\u2019s continued refusal to allow his father\u2019s unpublished work to see the light of day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cI cannot explain the dynamic exactly, but Adam started to turn on me in 2022, even though I had made him and Lorca quite a considerable amount of money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Kory said that Cohen \u201cwould be heartbroken\u201d to learn about the fight over his legacy and Adam\u2019s conscious suppression of his father\u2019s work that he had meticulously preserved for future generations to study.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">When Robert De Young was approached by Kory in 2017 to work on the Cohen archives, he was as excited as a kid in a candy shop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">De Young, with a long track record in the media, was already well familiar with Cohen, having produced two radio documentaries on the singer for ABC in Australia in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cI sent them over to his manager, Kelly Lynch, at the time, with the idea of developing a documentary film about him. When I was in Los Angeles in 1998, I met with her, and she said, \u2018Oh, Leonard is just downstairs, I\u2019ll bring him up.\u2019 This was soon after he came out of the Zen monastery he had been living in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cWe had an hour or so together, and he was very comfortable with what I wanted to do. He started pulling artwork out of the cupboards and said, \u2018Hey, Robert, if the camera crew is downstairs, bring them up.\u2019 And I had to say, \u2018Leonard, look, I didn\u2019t even know I was going to meet you today. There\u2019s no camera crew.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">That documentary got snagged up in corporate difficulties, but de Young kept in touch with Cohen and his team, now helmed by Kory. After Cohen\u2019s death, de Young was invited to the private memorial service, and shortly after, he got a call from Kory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cHe said, \u2018Look, I know you\u2019re a very experienced documentary filmmaker and an academic, and that you knew Leonard and he was very happy to work with you, so I\u2019d like to employ you.\u2019 And I suppose because of my media experience in audio and as a documentary filmmaker, I was particularly interested in the audio-video archive material. But because of my literary background as well, I was also interested in the notebooks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Only after a year and a half or so, de Young began to get a sense of the depth of the archives in terms of all the photos, artwork, notebooks, manuscripts, film, and music. So he asked Kory to hire a library science master to help rake through material and digitize as much as they could.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In parallel mode, de Young also took on the vast amounts of music in the storehouse. A big fan of the Bob Dylan bootleg series of albums that have been curated over recent decades for Sony by music archivist Steve Berkowitz, de Young went to Kory with a proposal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cThese are really interesting ways of preserving and archiving the material, but also getting really rare and unreleased material out to the public,\u201d de Young told Kory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cAnd so we sat and had a look at them, and he was obviously impressed with the packaging that Sony had done, and of course, with Steve\u2019s production. And I said, \u2018Look, we should start doing this with Leonard.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Kory okayed the project, and de Young brought in Berkowitz, and together they started mapping out a series of box sets. After extensively listening to hundreds of hours of music, they decided to focus on the 1972 period first.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-concert date tour, which took place over the course of a month in March and April and resulted in the 1973 live album Live Songs, took place less than a year after Cohen released his album Songs of Love and Hate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">He brought a small band, which included backup singer and future star Jennifer Warnes. The tour was well received, with the only controversy taking place, of course, at the Israel stops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cWe had 11 complete unheard concerts, and about 22 hours of unseen film footage of his 1972 tour, including his shows in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Cohen\u2019s first time visiting in Israel,\u201d de Young said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Calling it \u201can extraordinary concert,\u201d de Young explained that the plan was to release the Jerusalem show in its entirety on two bonus discs, together with two curated discs drawing on the best performances of the 1972 tour.<\/p>\n<p>They were documented in Tony Palmer\u2019s 1974 film Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire, which was removed from distribution as quickly as it was released. Cohen sacked Palmer and re-edited the film with Humphrey Dixon, but the film was only ever screened on television by ZDF in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-896498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Germany<\/a>. Sony and the estate shut down the unauthorized DVD release by Palmer in 2010.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The film portrays the audience in Jerusalem at Binyanei Hauma being disgruntled at Cohen\u2019s performance, and a German audience demanding money back due to a bad sound system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The Tel Aviv show was marred by physical altercations between concert-goers and the security team at the Yad Eliahu sports arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">However, the complete footage, according to de Young, told a different story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re one of the few who saw Bird on a Wire, you get the impression that the \u201972 tour was pretty shambolic, that the audio was terrible, that Leonard was drug-addled, and that crowds were unhappy and restless. Yet, when we went back and listened to the 11 complete concerts, there was hardly any feedback or static. And then when we started looking at the film footage, we realized that Palmer\u2019s film was a completely unrepresentative and very tabloid take on the 1972 tour,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I think part of our ambitions for getting the \u201972 box set out first was to correct that impression. Given that, I suppose the Jerusalem show had a bad reputation partially because of the Tony Palmer film. Leonard took some acid [LSD], and he wasn\u2019t in great shape. But what\u2019s really interesting is that he and the band went backstage, Leonard had a break and shaved, the audience sang \u201cHevenu Shalom Aleichem\u201d to bring him back to the stage, and when he came back out, he did absolute killer versions of 10 songs, including the finale \u201cSo Long, Marianne,\u201d which sees Cohen weeping as he\u2019s singing, accompanied by the devoted Jerusalem crowd,\u201d said de Young.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cAnd in Tel Aviv, the whole thing was based on a misunderstanding and confusion. Leonard didn\u2019t know that the floor surface of the arena had just been redone, so the audience was all sitting in the bleachers. So he called on people to come down onto the floor, not as some sort of revolutionary act. And when they started coming down, the security guards pushed them back. So again, Palmer\u2019s representation of that was very sensational.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the audio boxed set, de Young digitized and restored the archive footage of the tour into a documentary titled Leonard Cohen 1972, with the last section devoted to the Jerusalem and Tel Aviv shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In an excerpt he made available to the Magazine, which was produced for the ANU Museum of the Jewish People, there is footage of Cohen mingling with shopkeepers in the Old City and overlooking the Kotel, making music backstage and in hotel rooms with his band, and the concerts themselves, interspersed with footage of Cohen\u2019s 2009 Ramat Gan show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cI tracked down two of the musicians \u2013 bass player David O\u2019Connor and guitarist Peter Marshall. I wanted to retain the film very much as a 1972 time capsule, so I just wanted to use their audio. So I recorded interviews with both David and Peter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cJennifer Warnes did a voice-over and told me, \u2018You\u2019ve absolutely captured what that tour was like.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to de Young, who has devoured and internalized everything about the 1972 tour and Cohen\u2019s time in Israel, the bard\u2019s experience on his first visit to the birthplace of his faith left a huge impression on him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cI think that Leonard\u2019s time in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and the absolute love and devotion the audiences had for him was a big factor in his decision to return so suddenly when the Yom Kippur War broke out,\u201d de Young said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Will the film, the music, and the rest of the archives finally be made available to the general public?<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Adam Cohen\u2019s attorney, Alex Weingarten, told AP that the \u201cproceeding is far from over\u201d and that objections to the ruling would be lodged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Kory is no longer the trustee of the Cohen estate, but he said that a contract exists between him and the estate for the rights to complete the archive sale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s a promise by the estate to let me complete the process and, you know, make Adam another $40 million. But Adam has said publicly he doesn\u2019t want to let that happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cI have this victory, but my promise to Leonard about his archive, and where he stands historically, remains unfulfilled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cHe said to me that he had some faint hope of being recognized on the lower rungs of the pantheon of great poets. And I said, \u2018Leonard, you know I\u2019m not an academic. I certainly don\u2019t know how to make judgments in these matters, but I have my own views, and I think you should be recognized, not on the lower rungs, right? You should be recognized much higher than that.\u2019 And so, in part, I accepted the mandate to be, to manage, to try to achieve that goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the Variety article appeared about the court case, I have been approached by scholars and Cohen fans from all over the world who are hopeful that the archive might finally be made available. I remain hopeful this may prove true,\u201d Kory said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cI pray for some kind of insight from somewhere that Leonard\u2019s archives will be allowed to see the light of day. It\u2019s a rich source of inspiration, and it\u2019s a tragedy that it\u2019s not available. My goal is to let people know that this archive exists. And hopefully, out of that will arise some kind of demand for it to be seen and heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the revered songwriter sang on \u201cIf It Be Your Will,\u201d a song from his 1984 album Various Positions that also gave us \u201cHallelujah\u201d:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">If it be your will that I speak no more<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">And my voice be still as it was before<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">I will speak no more; I shall abide until<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">I am spoken for, if it be your will.\u25a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everyone knows about Leonard Cohen\u2019s visit to Israel in 1973 when he spontaneously parachuted into Israel to entertain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[423,37,184,1189,13827,3738,2253,42655,588,11284,18143],"class_list":["post-126079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-idf","tag-israel","tag-israel-news","tag-jerusalem","tag-jewish","tag-music","tag-palestinians","tag-ramat-gan","tag-tel-aviv","tag-western-wall","tag-yom-kippur-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116618023638026086","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}