As part of the service year in the south, we, the volunteers, receive many announcements about cultural activities in the area. One of them was about Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute in the main auditorium of Ofakim, a town about five kilometers from Patish, the moshav where many of the volunteers live.

It turned out that this production was part of the Israeli Opera’s outreach program, which works with peripheral communities throughout Israel. This initiative, under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture, has been going on for more than twenty years.

I have attended many productions of The Magic Flute, but this one was the most touching. It felt especially........

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