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"Academy Award-winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen have received the $1 million (\u00C2\u00A3616,105) Dan David Prize from Israel&amp;#039;s Tel Aviv University. Appearing at the school on Sunday to accept the honour - which is given annually to scientists and artists - Joel told reporters that his and Ethan&amp;#039;s mother Ren was born in Israel and had long encouraged her children to visit the country. &amp;quot;Our mother tried to get us to come here for many, many years,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;But you know, life intervenes. We&amp;#039;ve been very busy.&amp;quot; His brother Ethan also rejected calls by celebrities including fellow director Ken Loach and musician Roger Waters for artists to boycott Israel until the country improves its treatment of Palestinians. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s people responding to real problems in a way that they think is appropriate,&amp;quot; Ethan said. &amp;quot;We obviously don&amp;#039;t share that opinion of how to deal with those problems.&amp;quot; In spite of their enthusiasm for the nation, the True Grit helmers played down suggestions that they will set their next film there, with Joel joking: &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re real ignoramuses about Israel.&amp;quot; Previous recipients of the Dan David Prize include cellist Yo-Yo Ma, former US Vice President Al Gore and ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair. &amp;gt; Jeff Bridges &amp;#039;doesn&amp;#039;t expect Big Lebowski 2&amp;#039; Watch a video of the Dan David Prize ceremony below (A quick tribute to the Coens starts at 1:13:42. The Coens take the stage at 1:17:20):   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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