Two months after singer Harel Skaat came out of the closet, he had a festive birthday performance at Shuni’s Amphitheater in Israel. At that performance his mother, Ahuva, chose to voice her support in a very public way. “I asked his manager to come on the stage and congratulate him for his birthday. Harel didn’t […]
Harel Skaat has increasingly applied the power of his fame in recent years to social activism — usually on behalf of Israel’s LGBT community. I’ll never forget the look on the face of my middle-aged car service driver. I had just finished an hourlong, exceedingly pleasant conversation with Israeli pop singer Harel Skaat at a […]
The controversy around the state’s rejection of same sex couples to adopt caused rage in the LGBTQ community in Israel. The Aguda, the Israeli National LGBT Task Force, has organized a rally to be held tomorrow (Thursday) in front of the government’s offices in Tel Aviv. Straight rapper Static to the state: “You deny children’s […]
The Israeli government’s statement to a Supreme Court petition, which opposed allowing same-sex couples to adopt in the country, caused a stir and is currently one of the biggest news stories there. What made the news even more controversial, is that the government did say that it will now allow common-law heterosexual couples who have […]
“Good Morning, Sweetie”, the first collaboration between Harel Skaat and music producer Henree, was recorded three years ago. “It was completed and at the last minute I decided that I didn’t relate to it – and canceled everything,” he says today, and presents the updated version, full of electronics and Mediterranean-style singing, from his fourth […]
Songwriter Noam Horev, who wrote songs for top Israeli artists like Eyal Golan, Miri Mesika, Harel Skaat and others, decided to donate his time and talent to the Israel Gay Youth (IGY) organization by holding a unique 6-week writing workshop for LGBT youth. Noam Horev, who won the Israeli musicians union award, wrote Israel’s song […]
Busy times for gay Israeli singer Harel Skaat. Between shooting the next season of The Rising Star, an Israeli reality music competition where he serves as a judge; and performing abroad and working in Paris on his first international album, he’s also working on his 4th Hebrew studio album, from which the new single, “Sheyavou […]
A Wider Bridge, music column: As always, we are more than happy to support LGBT artists from Israel and to highlight new songs. Here’re a few of the releases from the past couple of weeks from our favorite LGBT artists. Tamar Eisenman and Rona Kenan: ‘Tum’ Tamar Eisenman released her first album in Hebrew this […]
As we try to highlight the work of Israeli artists from the LGBT community, we bring you new releases from the past couple of weeks from Harel Skaat, Yael Deckelbaum and Ronit Shachar Harel Skaat / Tzmarmoret buy the song on iTunes Harel Skaat has released his first single from his forth studio album, titled […]
Israeli LGBT personalities share their thoughts on social media on Day of Remembrance for the Fallen Soldiers of Israel and Victims of Terrorism. Harel Skaat, Singer Every year this day crushes me. Every year I realize that our survival in this country is not becoming easier and far from over. Every year there are more names, more children, […]