Director’s Column: Remembering Abie Nathan

By Ron Skolnik  

One of my fondest memories from my early years in Israel was of late afternoons. As the sun edged toward the horizon to make way for evening, I would turn the dial of my pre-digitized radio to 1540 AM to tune in to the "Voice of Peace" radio station and listen to the enchanting and tranquil melody by the Eagles, "I Wish You Peace," which the station played everyday at sunset.

The man responsible for the "pirate ship" from which this station broadcasted "from somewhere in the Mediterranean" (in reality, just outside Israel’s territorial waters, near Tel Aviv)– and for the message of peace that it aired between 1973 and 1993– was Abie Nathan. He passed away on August 27 at the age of 81. ... Click here for online version.