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Israel s legendary singer-songwriter David Broza will release a new best-of album on March 31st. The album, titled The Set List, is a collection of studio and live recordings celebrating David Broza s 40-year career as one of Israel s leading cultural figures. Broza is a passionate advocate of using music to encourage dialog and co-operation between Israel s different communities. Broza s best-known song, Yihye Tov (Things Will Be Better), was written in 1977 during the Arab-Israeli peace talks between Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin. The song has become an anthem of the Israeli peace movement. Yihye Tov is represented on The Set List with a live version recorded in 2007 at Broza s annual concert held at the totemic fortress of Masada, and features special guests Shawn Colvin and Jackson Browne. We need to communicate if we are not to leave it to the voices of doubters, of prejudice and hatred. You cannot allow people to think that it is just black and white. We need education if we are to learn how to create respect. It is not that I don t see evil, bad, negativity and violence. I see it and I refuse to submit to it, Broza said recently in The Observer (March 12, 2017). Broza garnered widespread acclaim for his 2013 album East Jerusalem West Jerusalem, produced by GRAMMY Award-winner Steve Earle, and recorded in its entirety in the Palestinian Sabreen Studio in East Jerusalem. The work, featuring a band of both Israeli and Palestinian musicians, resulted in a beautiful, intimate documentary of the same name. Vanity Fair called the documentary extraordinary and added if no one else is going to try and heal the world, he will. East Jerusalem West Jerusalem is currently streaming on Netflix. The title track co-written by and featuring Wyclef Jean appears on The Set List. The album will also feature Night Dawn , the title track of an album which Broza wrote and recorded featuring the poetry of Texas alt-country legend Townes Van Zandt. The two met only twice before Van Zandt s untimely death twenty years ago. Broza was astonished to learn that Van Zandt had left a shoe box full of unpublished poetry with a request that Broza set the poems to music. The Set List also includes The Long Road , featuring Irish singer Maura O Connell. The song, written by Cliff Eberhardt, was recorded in 1998, but was shelved along with the ensuing album after Broza sustained serious injuries following a car crash. Released by Magenta Label Group and Broza Records, The Set List will be available on March 31st 2017.