Those of us who mourned the late John Lennon on the 40th anniversary of his murder have gotten used to his political image as a peace & love activist, which in today’s political jargon would make him a leftist. But 51 years ago, Lennon and his new bride Yoko Ono sang an oath to Jerusalem, in Hebrew. So there.
In 1969, entertainer and future MK Akiva Nof gained great fame in Israel as the only Israeli journalist to interview John Lennon and Yoko Ono on their honeymoon in the presidential suite at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel during the week between March 25 and 31, 1969. The couple invited the world’s press into their hotel room every day between 9 AM and 9 PM.