The singer, who is in a risk group due to his age, is at home • According to his associates, he is feeling well • Shabbat joins a long line of artists who have contracted the virus
Shlomi Shabbat
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Shlomi Shabbat was diagnosed with corona.
The singer, 66, is in a risk group, and has been diagnosed as positive for the virus.
His associates say he is feeling well and is at home.
Shabbat joins a long list of artists infected with the virus, including Lior Narkis, Omer Adam, Shlomi Saranga, Lior Halfon, Ninet Tayeb, Tom Aviv and others.
A few weeks ago, Shabbat released a duet with young singer Eden Elena on the sixth anniversary of the fall of Avra Mengistu to Hamas captivity called "What Are You Going Through?" Public discourse and mobilize solidarity after six years in which Mengistu is being held captive, after crossing the border fence.
The song was written and composed by Shlomi Shabbat and Avi Ohayon, and is a personal appeal to Avra, in Hebrew that combines texts in the Amharic language.
The clip was directed by Roi Raz, and Mengistu's mother was also photographed for it.
The song calls on the Israeli public not to forget Avra, and to raise the issue on the agenda.
The project is made possible thanks to mass recruitment and is managed by a broad forum, which includes the "Friends for Abrah" group, which includes senior security figures (including former GSS chief Yuval Diskin, and David Meidan, a former Mossad official and coordinator of prisoners and missing persons brought back by Gilad Shalit). Tami Arad and a group of pilots from the pilot course of the missing navigator Ron Arad, activists for the liberation of Avra from the Ethiopian community, a group of graduates of the Wexner Foundation, and other senior figures in the fields of law and medicine.
The group has been working for several years to increase solidarity in Israeli society with Abra Mengistu, and to promote the effort to return him, and to return the other prisoners and missing persons held in Gaza.