I think she said "my brother is a rockstar."
He totally is. With screaming fainting girls in his concerts, heavy makeup and trying to kick in the gut of the establishment. The whole story. And on top of that, he is an extremely talented song-writer.
It's funny to think there are parallel universes of extreme fame.
I like the way you described this.
And he's famous for being some kind of outspoken liberal, right?
Yes, very much so. He comes from a very military-oriented family (Moshe Dayan, if the name rings any bells, his uncle IIRC, used to be the head of the Israeli army and the minister of defence), which makes his political opinions stand out even more. He is very liberal in his opinions, very critical regarding the current situation in Israel, and never hesitates to say exactly what's on his mind. He's famous and loved enough for his other creative writing that he can get away with saying pretty much everything, and it's important enough for him to actually go out and say it. He actually lived in the USA for a few years IIRC, and has a daughter there (much younger than Shira and Aviv, though). And here is his picture and his latest column in an Israeli newspaper (in Hebrew, of course).
I like her very much. Also Etgar. They are the sweetest couple.
That's good to read. I always like finding out that people whose work I like are also nice in "real life".
They do a lot of work together (theater stuff), which I'd think would be hard, but they say it's nothing but fun.
I knew that she was heavily into theater, didn't know that he did it too, let alone with her. How lovely that it's fun for them.
I keep thinking about "six degrees of separation" and how amusing it is that the shortest way from me to an Israeli writer (in such a small everybody-knows-everybody place like Israel) is through an American girl on an internet forum, whose real name I don't even know. The world, it is a strange and interesting place.
[Edit: as are numbers, consecutive digits all confused in my post #]