Israeli singer Yishai Ribo, who recently played New York City’s Madison Square Garden, performed last night at rather different venue: a last-minute backyard wedding for a bride and her groom who took a 24-hour leave from reserve duty in order to get married.
Ribo sang “V’he She’amda” and several other songs at the wedding of Maor and Gal Peretz, which took place at a neighbor’s backyard in the settlement of Nofei Prat, near Maale Adumim.
“Our neighbor’s son wanted to get married, and they didn’t have room so they asked us, and we said ‘happily,’ said Yossi Zer.
The groom’s mother was getting her hair done at her Kfar Adumim hairdresser, telling him about their wedding on the fly. He told her he would get Ribo to perform. And he did.
“He came and sang a few songs and then left,” said Zer, the neighbor who hosted. “It was just very emotional, the whole thing.”
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