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Screen capture from video of U2's song 'Wildpeace,' from the album 'Days of Ash,' that features lyrics by Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai. (YouTube)
February 19, 2026, 6:59 pm
U2’s new EP features Yehuda Amichai poem, memorializes slain Palestinian activist
Lead singer Bono, in remarks along with release of ‘Days of Ash,’ laments rising antisemitism, condemns Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack, criticizes Netanyahu’s management of war
By ToI Staff
Bono poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Bono: Stories of Surrender' at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, on May 17, 2025. (Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)
August 11, 2025, 1:49 pm
Bono, U2 pen sharp condemnation of Israeli military action in Gaza
The legendary rock band accuses Israel of starving innocent civilians as a weapon of war and creating ‘a humanitarian crisis’ in its war against Hamas
By Zev Stub
Bono poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Bono: Stories of Surrender' at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, on May 17, 2025. (Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)
May 23, 2025, 10:35 am
Bono: ‘Hamas, release the hostages, stop the war. Israel, be released from Netanyahu’
As U2 receives award, frontman praises aid workers as ‘the best of us,’ calls for ‘Israel to be released from far-right fundamentalists that twist your sacred texts’
By ToI Staff
Former US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative, on Sept. 24, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
January 4, 2025, 2:58 pm
Hillary Clinton, Soros, WCK’s Andres to be awarded US Presidential Medal of Freedom
Biden also to confer highest civilian honor on Denzel Washington, Lionel Messi, Michael J. Fox, Ralph Lauren, Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson, David Rubenstein, Bono
By AP and ToI Staff
U2 frontman Bono, in Las Vegas on October 8, 2023, sings about 'those beautiful kids' at the Supernova music festival in southern Israel, at least 260 of whom were murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy U2 Twitter screengrab)
October 9, 2023, 9:12 pm
U2’s Bono pays tribute to ‘beautiful kids’ slain at Israeli desert rave
At Las Vegas show, singer changes words in ‘Pride’ to refer to festival goers, 260 of whom were massacred by Hamas terrorists and other of whom were kidnapped to Gaza
By Jessica Steinberg
Ivanka Trump (right) and Jared Kushner (left) at a signing ceremony for 'phase one' of a US-China trade agreement, in the East Room of the White House, January 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
August 23, 2022, 7:43 pm
In his new book, Kushner says he once broke up with Ivanka because she wasn’t Jewish
Memoir recalls how Murdochs, Bono and Billy Joel helped rekindle romance between couple, and that Trump pressed Jared on why his daughter had to be the one to convert
By Michael Horovitz
Irish lead singer of rock band U2, Bono, center, performs on stage in Paris on September 8, 2018. (Zakaria ABDELKAFI/AFP)
September 13, 2018, 11:07 pm
U2’s Bono gives Nazi salute to mock far-right Swedes
Band’s frontman makes gesture during concert while shouting ‘Akesson’ in reference to head of the Sweden Democrats, a party with neo-Nazi origins which scored election success
By Agencies
Bono, left, and Adam Clayton of U2 perform on stage during a concert, in Paris, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015. U2’s performance in Paris on Sunday night wasn’t just about music _ it had a mournful tinge, too. Frontman Bono paid respects to 130 people killed by terrorists in Paris on Nov. 13, and 14 people killed in a mass shooting last week in California. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
December 7, 2015, 3:35 am
U2’s Bono honors victims in Paris, San Bernardino
‘There are few words to speak to the loss you are feeling in this city tonight,’ rocker tells fans in Paris concert
By Greg Keller
American rock group Eagles of Death Metal performing on stage at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, France, a few moments before terrorists stormed into the venue and massacred 89 people, November 13, 2015. (AFP/ROCK&FOLK/Marion Ruszniewski)
December 5, 2015, 4:33 am
Eagles of Death Metal to join U2 in emotional Paris return
Rock band will resume its European tour in February after postponing performances following Bataclan terror attack
By AP
Gigawatt Global Co-Founders Yosef Abramowitz (L) and Chaim Motzen (R) with U2’s lead singer Bono at Gigawatt Global’s solar field in Rwanda (Courtesy)
October 6, 2015, 5:32 pm
Could Israel’s solar energy guru win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Yosef Abramowitz’s Rwandan solar field has inspired the Nobel committee – and singer Bono, too
By David Shamah
A pleased Yosef Abramowitz greets Bono at a Rwandan solar field this week (Courtesy Yosef Abramowitz)
August 28, 2015, 4:55 pm
Bono anoints Israel’s solar power ‘king’
The U2 star congratulates Yosef Abramowitz on his renewable energy project in post-genocide Rwanda
By Jessica Steinberg
File: U2 lead singer Bono in Brazil, 2011. (CC BY, Agência Brasil)
December 4, 2014, 9:01 pm
U2’s Bono is not a Hasid impersonator
Wisecrack by guitarist The Edge on his bandmate’s biking garb swiftly taken for fact, but confirmed as just a joke
By ToI Staff
Singer Bob Geldof waves to fans as he arrives at a music studio to record his segment of the new Band Aid 30 charity single in London, Saturday, Nov. 15 2014. (Photo credit: Jonathan Short/Invision/AP)
November 16, 2014, 4:13 am
Bob Geldof organizes new recording to fight Ebola
Bono, One Direction join singer/activist for new recording of Band Aid single ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’
By AP
Sameh, aka SAZ, on the streets of his Ramle hometown (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
November 11, 2012, 4:50 pm
An Arab rapper in La La land
‘I’m the American Middle Eastern dream,’ says Sameh Zakout, aka SAZ, a Ramle boy who dreams about making it big in Los Angeles after his stint on an Israeli reality show
By Jessica Steinberg
File: U2 lead singer Bono in Brazil, 2011. (CC BY, Agência Brasil)
April 10, 2012, 7:45 am
Bono spotted in Tel Aviv
Singer in Israel on private visit
By Asher Zeiger
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