Today, more than 15 nationalities play American football side by side in Israel, including Jewish and Palestinian athletes. This is a special source of pride for Robert Kraft.
“For me, the biggest turn-on is to see Palestinians and Jewish people playing the game together and being on the same team,” Kraft said in 2011. “You solve problems by creating jobs for people and by getting people to interact with one another and know each other as human beings and so that’s the turn-on for me here.”
These are the stories that I wish the public would be hearing. But acts of kindness and bringing people together apparently aren’t as newsworthy as Tom Brady defending his deflated footballs.
I don’t agree.
The kindness of Myra Kraft and the legacy she and her husband will leave behind is a story of kindness that stretches from Boston to Jerusalem.
This article was written for JNS by Jason Stverak, president of the Salomon Center for Truth & Accountability.