“For the sake of my future, I’m really hoping that we’ll win the appeal,”Elina told the BBC ! And I love older music like Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson. It's something I wanted to try out, but this opportunity just came out of nowhere. I feel so blessed. It's such a big, huge TV show! I got the opportunity and I absolutely love it, so hopefully in the future, if people agree that all those acting classes paid off, I'll have more acting experiences in the future.Anything in the works right now?Nothing right now, but hopefully whenÂGleeairs, people will start calling. My dad tells me about playing soccer in the streets of al-Jib, a small city just north of Jerusalem. As the oldest of 10 children, my dad has always been a natural leader. He’d go outside, gather the neighborhood kids, and they’d play for hours on end. The only thing that would stop the never-ending games of footy is if his mother called him in for dinner or if they saw a soldier approaching. Growing up, he says, he witnessed children his own age be jailed — and on two occasions, he says he saw his own relatives shot and killed by who they believed to be Israeli forces disguised in keffiyehs. (A keffiyeh is a traditionalblack-and-white Palestinian scarf