Singer Shlomi Shabbat received the announcement today (Thursday) that in the beacon lighting ceremony on the eve of the upcoming Independence Day, which will be held on Mount Herzl, he will participate and this time not as a singer, but as a beacon highlight. After receiving the message Saturday was very excited and said: “For the first time I am standing in a very very exciting moment, I received a message that I was chosen to light a beacon on Independence Day. A big dream.”
“Thank God, I am very excited, and thank everyone, especially in this difficult year we have been through,” Shabbat said, aiming for his personal struggle after being infected with the corona virus during the year, and even being hospitalized in critical condition for a long time. “There is hope that it will end, and we will be able to unite, live and enjoy. I want to say thank you to Ministers Miri Regev and Chili Trooper, and to all the committee members and staff who elected me, thank you.
The Minister of Culture and Sports, Hili Troper, said following the announcement: “I am happy to grant, together with Minister Regev, the right to light a beacon on the upcoming Independence Day. From the end of the 1980s until the third decade of the 2000s, Shlomi proves how much depth, love and truth there is in our cultural world. ”