Noa Ben-Artzi, the granddaughter of Yitzhak Rabin who gave a heart-rending eulogy at his funeral, has reportedly received a $1 million advance for a book on her relationship with the slain Israeli prime minister.
Ben-Artzi, 18, who will write under the name Noa Rabin, will include a call for Middle East peace in her 200-page book, it was reported.
According to accounts from New York, Alfred A. Knopf purchased distribution rights from the French publishing house Robert Laffont, which initiated the project.
The Rabin family denied reports that Ben-Artzi had signed a contract or received $1 million, the Israeli daily Ma’ariv reported.
“She heard about the proposal. But today is the 30th day since her grandfather’s murder,” the paper quoted the family as saying Tuesday. “It is not a day to even relate to such inquiries.”
But the book deal was confirmed by Marek Halter, a French writer and friend of the Rabin family, who said he will work with Ben-Artzi on the book, to be published in French and English in the spring.
“I have known Noa for many years,” he said. “We went with my publisher to Israel to talk about [the idea for a book] with Noa, and the family accepted.”
Halter added that Ben-Artzi’s book would not be a memoir, but a portrait of the generation of young Israelis of which she is part.
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