Dror Feiler

Dror Elimelech Feiler (Hebrew: דרור אלימלך פיילר‎‎; born 31 August 1951) is an Israeli-born Swedish musician, artist and left-wing activist. He is married to the artist Gunilla Sköld-Feiler.

Feiler was born in Tel Aviv in 1951, and moved with his family to kibbutz Yad Hana in 1967. His father, Eliezer Feiler, was a left-wing activist. In 1978, he and others secretly met with a group of Palestine Liberation Organization representatives in Bucharest while it was still illegal. Eliezer Feiler was tried and eventually sentenced to six months of community service and a 4,000 Israeli lira fine. The fine was paid, but the sentence was never served because, while the legal process was ongoing, the law had changed and it was no longer illegal to meet with members of the PLO. His mother, Pnina Feiler, born 1923, was among the founders of Yad Hana. She works with mobile health centrals in Palestinian villages in the West Bank that have to travel far to get access to health-care and other services. Dror Feiler served as a paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces.

In 1973, Feiler immigrated to Sweden. He renounced his Israeli citizenship, as it was then a condition for gaining Swedish citizenship. Feiler studied new music and its interpretation at the Fylkingen Institut for New Music from 1975 to 1977, musicology at from 1977 to 1978 and composition at the Music Academy of Stockholm from 1978 to 1983.

Feiler also plays saxophone in the jazz band Lokomotiv Konkret, and founded the Too Much Too Soon Orchestra. In January 2004 he and Gunilla Sköld-Feiler made international news with their art installation Snow White and The Madness of Truth, which referred to female suicide bomber Hanadi Jaradat, which was vandalised by the then Israeli ambassador to Sweden Zvi Mazel. The installation consisted of a long pool of water coloured blood red, upon which floated a small white boat named "Snövit" ("Snow White") carrying a portrait of Hanadi Jaradat. She had blown herself up in October 2003 in an attack on Maxim's restaurant in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, killing 21 people and injuring 51.

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