Canadian singer Celine Dion announced on Thursday that she we no longer arrive in Israel in May 2023 for her much-anticipated concert, citing health concerns. The concert was originally scheduled for 2020 but had to be postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Now the event in Israel will have to be put off along with the rest of the 2023 tour, which was supposed to take place mainly in Europe. Taking to Twitter to break the news, she wrote: "It hurts me to tell you that I won't be ready to restart my tour in Europe in February. - Céline" She then added a list of the rescheduled concerts for 2024, with Israel being left out. She explained that her decision to postpone was due to a "rare neurological" disorder. "I have had health problems for a long time and this is not It's not easy for me to deal with it. It saddens me enormously to have to tell you that I won't be ready to start my tour in Europe again in February," she added.
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Dion, who won five Grammy Awards, was supposed to perform in Tel Aviv's Bloomfield Stadium in May.
The Israeli producers who had been organizing the now-canceled event said that they were "very disappointed" that her first-ever concert in Israel was not going to be rescheduled. "This is particularly disappointing because of the many years we have been working on this," they said in a statement.
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