News Source: The Guardian
| 2 months ago
Leonard Cohen sings of love and peace The singer's Tel Aviv concert illustrates the need for constructive engagement, not boycotts, to build Israeli-Palestinian peace Three days before Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, when everything comes to a...
News Source: Haaretz
| 2 months ago
Veteran singer Leonard Cohen took to the stage at Ramat Gan stadium on Thursday night after breaking an Israeli record when all the tickets for his show were sold out in less than 12 hours, despite costing between NIS 1,000 and 1,200. Seconds after...
News Source: Israel National News
| 2 months ago
Sep/25/09 Follow Israel news briefs on and . (IsraelNN.com) Legendary songwriter and vocalist Leonard Cohen serenaded a crowd of 50,000 in the Ramat Gan stadium near Tel Aviv Thursday, performing for more than three hours under the stage lights...
News Source: Leader Post Online
| 2 months ago
Israel — Canadian songwriter Leonard Cohen crooned to a stadium crowd of 47,000 in Tel Aviv on Thursday night, wowing it with a series of iconic ballads that are as deep and complex as the region that fought over where and how to host him. Wearing...
News Source: Jerusalem Post
| 2 months ago
Leonard Cohen, 75, the Canadian singer-poet sometimes derided for making music to slit your wrists to, energized and transported a packed Ramat Gan stadium to a vibrant spiritual high on Thursday night. "I don't know if we will pass this way again,"...
News Source: Washington Post
| 2 months ago
Singer-poet Leonard Cohen's first concerts for Israelis weren't in Israel. They were for troops in the then-occupied Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, part of a morale-boosting tour that the Montreal native gave during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Thirty-six...