After Aral Segal’s friend from the band, vocalist Dror Poir, left the band because of his opinions, Segal addressed the issue today (Monday) in a monologue on Channel 14. Segal quoted Poir, saying: “It is not appropriate for me to sing with someone who calls you And I have parasites on the spirit (probably the great spirit of Goldknopf and Deri), and the next evening a rock and roll player arrives – one of the purest expressions of the secular spirit as I see it. For me it is sacred. Am I a parasite on the wind? Pak Yu”.
Segal responded: “Foyer means the monologue in which I argued that to the same extent that the ultra-orthodox are labeled as parasites on matter, one can argue that contemporary Israeli secularism is a parasite on the spirit, and I meant the biblical Jewish spirit that hovers over the Declaration of Independence.”
In conclusion, Sgal noted that he still loves Foyer, despite everything: “If it’s up to me, the candle is still lit, because we are one people.”