The singer and creator will take the stage tonight at the Zappa Club in Herzliya after a year without performances • "I feel that today is a kind of victory. The Israeli is doing it again," he said.
Aviv Geffen in Zappa // Photo: Gil Kramer
Even in the absence of stages and events to perform on, the last few weeks have been particularly turbulent in Aviv Geffen's life.
A month ago, he met with the prime minister, to talk about the outline for opening cultural events (and also received quite a bit of fire for it).
A few weeks later, he paid tribute to his father's aunt, Ruth Dayan, who died at the age of 103. Earlier this week, the network's franchise announced that the singer would return to the panel of musical reality judges - but not to De Weiss' swivel chair, but alongside British producer Simon Cowell , In the next season of The X Factor, which will be filmed soon.
But tonight (Monday) he returns to his natural environment.
After long months without performances, Geffen will inaugurate the return of the world of culture to activity, in an intimate performance at the Zappa Club in Herzliya.
The first sign of a return to routine, at the end of one of the most difficult periods in the world of music and culture in the country.
"That we lived and lived and came to this moment, after a very difficult year," he says excitedly, an hour before going on stage.
'I feel today is a kind of victory.
The Israeli is doing it again.
It seems to me that we are the third place in the world to reappear.
I spoke yesterday with Stephen Wilson (the British musician and a member of the Blackfield ensemble) who is in England, and he did not believe that there were performances in Israel.
There they dream of returning in March 2022. The fact that it is happening today in Israel, in Zappa, is a miracle. "
When asked if he felt he had a hand in returning to the stages, he replies "I feel I brought my part."
Despite this, he does not ignore the barriers of criticism.
For meeting independently with Netanyahu, and for the meeting itself - with someone who has represented for years the side of the political map that Geffen opposes.
"I faced criticism, but I'm one who does not do populist things, but needs to," he says.
"I went to ask my friends for money."
About the casting for The X Factor, he says: "Simon Cowell himself asked me to be first with him.
I said 'definitely yes', that sounds great to me.
I was looking for how to come back and with what.
I really liked The Weiss, but The X Factor with Simon is interesting.
Because of the person he is, who is responsible for a lot of successes.
He is a brilliant man.
It seems to me that he and I on the screen will be an interesting combination. '