If Noam Horev had to be described in just a few words, it would perhaps sound like "Afoulian, medical miracle, gay and poet", but even on paper it sounds like Horev is a reality cliché, and in reality he is one of the most prolific and successful creators in Israel.
Noam Horev is a writer, creator and winner of the Acomm Awards. Although his name precedes him, Horev began his journey behind the scenes or rather, behind the words. While he was 23 years old, he moved from Afula to Tel Aviv and his dream was to write songs for artists.
"I'm not a child, and the piss doesn't come to my head. It didn't happen overnight. I worked very hard. I came to Tel Aviv very purposeful," says Horev in an interview with "The Digger" with Shir Ziv.
hard work pays off
Horev is behind many works such as "Small Gifts" by Rami Kleinstein, "When Another" by Eyal Golan, "Remnants of Myself" by Itai Levy, "Friend of Once" by Rita and the list goes on.
Beyond that, Horev has published books for children and adults and now with a new book, "Sun in a Jar", he is running a successful show in Israel and around the world.
But it wasn't always like that.
"I really came from nothing, my partner and I did everything with ten fingers, and still money is not what matters," says Horev.
In his youth, the ambitious Horev made his way slowly and with a lot of patience.
Being a young boy, Horev would wait for artists at the end of performances, to hand them notebooks of songs he had written.
Today, as a well-known creator, he publishes his songs and receives a lot of sympathy, but he also pays a heavy price for the exposure.
"You put yourself there completely naked, without protection, exposed, and when someone stabs you, it hurts much more," Horev shares.
"Wonder Hand"
Noam Horev grew up in Afula and was born with a completely paralyzed right hand.
His mother fought for him, and after intensive rehabilitation he was declared a medical conference.
Today, this is the hand with which he writes and creates.
In an interview Horev also tells about the tempting offers he gave up: "I could have done a lot of things even at the level of campaigns, but the engine is not the money, the engine is creativity."
"This is a lemma for all of us"
Horev continues to tell the story about his sexual orientation and the feelings he experienced as a teenager.
"I'm very worried, I don't want any child in Tel Aviv, Herzliya, Afula, Hadera or Be'er Sheva to feel what I felt when I was 15-16 years old. I thought I was unclean, I thought I was forbidden, I thought I was dirty and I was doomed to a life of solitude... this The statement of intent that bothers me," he says.
Facing the stormy political reality, Horev comes out with a sharp statement: "This is a war of everyone who wants to live in a liberal democratic country, of everyone who has ever felt different. We LGBT people will not let anyone take us back.
We will give a fight.
We can't let that happen."
were we wrong
We will fix it!
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