And now a rosy picture about Saudi regime from an Israel newspaper: the Israeli-Saudi honeymoon in full swing

"But things weren’t always like this. The Saud family opened the kingdom up to modernization and Western influence, and allowed things that had seemingly been forbidden by Islamic law. Despite the prohibitions and limitations, composers like Tarek Abd al-Hakim and Saraj Omar, as well as singers such as Mohammed Abdu and Talal Maddah, have flourished in Saudi Arabia."