At his blog, Yisrael Medad reproduces an article that was published in 1987 in an Israeli publication. Written by an apparent long-time friend of Bob Dylan’s named Tuvia Ariel, it is entitled “Rambling on Dylan,” and that about describes it, although it is an interesting rambling.
Excerpt:
I remember calling Bob in the late days of October or early November 1973. “We need you here in Israel,” I told him collect. “But you got the war won,” he said. “You don’t need me.” Not to fight, I told him, and before I could say another word, that I wanted him to come and sing in the hospitals for the wounded, before I could even make a sound he said “eh” and I knew that if I had told him that the Jews needed him to fight in their army, needed Zimmerman the Jew, he would have come. Bob Dylan the Entertainer couldn’t make it. “I’m making a movie right now and I can’t get away.” “I promise you,” I said, “the movie will bomb.” The movie bombed.
