Material girl or spiritual girl?
The singer, 64, does not perform on Friday nights and Saturdays because of Shabbat and has declared Israel "the energy centre of the world".
Pop superstar Madonna is set to visit Israel this weekend for Shavuot, though she will not perform during the private trip, according to Hebrew media reports.
The singer, who unofficially added “Esther” to her name in 2005 and marks some Jewish festivals though she isn’t Jewish, will reportedly visit the grave of her spiritual leader, Rabbi Philip S. Berg, as well as that of the 16th century mystic rabbi Isaac ben Solomon Luria Ashkenazi (known in Hebrew as Ha’Ari Hakadosh).
The singer, 64, does not perform on Friday nights and Saturdays because of Shabbat and has declared Israel “the energy centre of the world”.
Madonna owns a home in Tel Aviv.
In 2019, when Israel hosted the Eurovision Song Contest, Madonna arrived to participate and performed two of her songs, drawing criticism for her singing and for injecting politics by displaying the Israeli and Palestinian flags on the backs of two of her dancers.
Times of Israel
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