Elton John plays Israel

Following a line of cancellations, superstar singer Elton John arrived at the Ramat Gan national stadium in Israel to perform a knock out concert. He satisfied a crowd of around 40,000 for two and a half hours with high energy emotion and a string of hits. He told the crowd: "They didn't stop me from coming here!" He added, "Musicians spread love and goodness, they don't divide in arguments. The British king of pop who hadn't visited Israel for 20 years played a list of songs from across the decades, among them, Circle of Life, Your Song and maybe pertinently, Madman across the water. Following his concert in Israel, he left straight away to his next European tour stop in Austria.