Author: Gabe Friedman

(JTA) — The world’s first Israeli-Palestinian boy band landed in Los Angeles to start recording songs on Oct. 6, the day before Hamas attacked Israel and kicked off a war in Gaza, a new feature from Billboard magazine reveals. As1one—pronounced “as one”—is a group of four Jewish Israelis and two Palestinians, one Muslim and one Christian. The project was first envisioned by music executives James Diener and Ken Levitan as an Israeli version of BTS—the seven-piece Korean pop group that has reached superstardom around the world—and has been in development for a couple of years. Diener, who worked in top…