During the broadcast of the inaugural of new Knesset members, the TV cameras caught attorney Arthur Shani next to MK Ksenia Svetlova from the the Zionist Camp. He is her parliamentary advisor. Arthur was a boy whose mother wasn’t able to raise him by herself, a boy who was transferred to a boarding school institution, who was sent to a class that didn’t suit his skills, who was forced to fight for the right to go to a regular high school and serve in a proper military unit – and he’s reached the Knesset.
Arthur was hoping that among the television viewers were some of the people who over the past 26 years created difficulties for him, though he wasn’t sure that they would recognized him: the fat boy who weighed more than 330 pounds, is now young, slim and athletic; the religious kid who studied at a Yeshiva in a conservative institution managed by the Orthodox party Shas is now in a committed relationship with another man; the poor kid, whose mother’s refrigerator was empty, now holds two university degrees, is working on the third, and is the owner of an independent law firm. He’s the ultimate Israeli dream come true.
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