Concerts In The Holy Land. Jerusalem, November 11-27, 1975.
By Mahnuel Muñoz
Frank returns to Israel after 13 years of absence. On his first visit, the famous 1962 World Tour with Bill Miller’s sextet, the singer performed in Tel Aviv, on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Jerusalem, the setting city for these concerts, was still a divided city. Israel controlled the western part (West Jerusalem or New City) and Jordan the eastern sector (East Jerusalem), including the so-called Old City.
In 1967 Israel would conquer the eastern part during the Six-Day War.
The miracle of Frank Sinatra was then manifested with a conciliatory gesture aimed at the children of Arabs and Israelis: the creation of the Youth Center for Arab and Jewish children named after the singer, and beneficiary of the concerts he offers at the International Convention Center in November 1975.
It is curious that Sinatra took so long to return to a country that caused him a deep shock with its mixture of beauty and pain and the spirituality that floats in the air. Its inhabitants, true survivors, are the kind of people with whom Frank feels most identified and whom he most admires. His jokes about Jews, referring to the Beverly Hills bigwigs who treated him so badly at the time, never made an appearance while his shoes were covered with the dust of the Holy Roads.
After being deeply affected by the Holocaust memorial, the more than one million lights of the Children’s Museum representing an identical number of young lives lost, and the beautiful sunset on the Sea of Galilee, Frank regretted not having participated in World War II, and felt that Israel was a wonderful land worth dying for.
In any case, the wait has its reward. Frank Sinatra offered recitals in excellent form.
There is a CD with excellent sound quality that was published in Brazil as a limited and numbered series of 5000 copies, titled “The Jerusalem Concert”
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