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Festival organizers said there was not 'sufficient clarity' about conductor Lahav Shani's stance toward the Israeli government, so the musicians were uninvited; the orchestra and the city of Munich rejected what they called as collective punishment of Israeli artists
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The Munich Philharmonic and its chief conductor, Lahav Shani, have been uninvited from a festival in Belgium due to Shani's role as chief conductor of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and his unclear stance toward the Israeli government.
