Roy Trakin Security was tight as a crowd of 500 entertainment industry titans filed through metal detectors and multiple checkpoints into the Beverly Hills house owned by Warner Music Group A&R exec Aton Ben-Horin for the Creative Community for Peace’s sixth annual Ambassadors of Peace event (Variety is a media sponsor). The list of honorees included (pictured above, left to right): TV exec Ben Silverman, Amazon Music’s Phylicia Fant, actor-author-host Mayim Bialik, music business attorney Josh Binder and newly appointed Atlantic Music Group CEO Elliot Grainge. The organization, founded more than a decade ago by veteran publishing executive David Renzer, EA music chief Steve Schnur and MMG Music’s Ran Geffen-Lifshitz, mainly to convince acts to bypass boycott efforts to perform in Israel, has found new relevance since the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on an Israeli music festival.
