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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 584

Gene Simmons

Helen Mirren onstage at the screening of 'Golda' at the opening night of the Jerusalem's Film Festival, July 13, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 14, 2024, 8:45 pm
Helen Mirren, Liev Schreiber among stars condemning calls for Israel Eurovision ban
400 signatories to letter organized by Creative Community for Peace say they’re shocked by efforts to ban Israel ‘for responding to greatest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust’
By Amy Spiro
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken boards the plane to leave Israel on January 31, 2023. (State Department/Twitter)
February 2, 2023, 1:34 pm
Daily Briefing Feb 2: As Blinken flies out of the region, IAF jets bomb Gaza
US correspondent Jacob Magid on Blinken’s visit to PA, hope for US visa waiver; NY reporter Luke Tress on former PM Bennett in the Big Apple, plus advice from Gene Simmons
By ToI Staff
Kiss frontman Gene Simmons at the United Nations in New York, January 26, 2023. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
January 27, 2023, 4:59 am
Kiss frontman Simmons wants to rock Holocaust memorials with Never Again concert
Music icon, whose mother survived Nazi death camps, says at ‘boring’ UN commemoration that Jewish community needs to get more groups involved in remembrance activities
By Luke Tress
Gene Simmons of Kiss performs at Staples Center in Los Angeles, March 4, 2020. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images for ABA via JTA)
May 5, 2020, 1:38 am
Kiss frontman Simmons learns about Holocaust survivor mother’s ordeal
German newspaper presents Israel-born rock star with 100 pages of documents about his late mother’s experiences to mark 75th anniversary of her liberation
By Marcy Oster
Gene Simmons performing with KISS in 2010. (CC BY/Wikipedia)
April 30, 2019, 4:56 pm
International celebs slam calls for boycott of Eurovision in Israel
Anti-Israel activists urging a boycott of the song contest ‘subverting the spirit of the contest,’ say signatories including Stephen Fry, Gene Simmons
By ToI Staff
Gene Simmons (photo credit: CC-BY-Alberto Cabello, Wikimedia Commons)
November 17, 2017, 9:25 pm
Kiss’s Gene Simmons banned from Fox News for life
Israeli-born singer reportedly barges in on staff meeting, exposes torso and tells ‘chicks’ in the room to ‘sue me!’
By ToI Staff
Gene Simmons attends a Friends of the Israel Defense Forces gala in Beverly Hills on November 5, 2015. (Noam Chem)
November 5, 2017, 7:20 pm
Record $53.8 million raised for IDF soldiers at Beverly Hills gala
Larry Ellison donates $16.6 million, says, ‘Since Israel’s founding, we have called on the brave men and women of the IDF to defend our home’
By JTA
A newborn calf named Genie, with facial markings that resemble Gene Simmons, bass player for the rock group KISS, shortly after its birth in Kerrville, Texas, July 28, 2017. (Heather Taccetta via AP)
August 1, 2017, 11:25 pm
Calf with Gene Simmons face rocks Texas ranch
Black and white markings on cow look eerily like KISS’s Jewish bass player’s onstage persona, saving it from slaughter
By AP
Gene Simmons (r) with the band KISS seen making the two-fingered gesture at LG Arena in Birmingham, UK on May 10, 2010. (CC BY-SA Andrew King, Flickr)
June 16, 2017, 4:32 pm
Gene Simmons seeks to trademark rock hand gesture
Israeli-born bass player and vocalist for KISS claims he first used the index finger and pinky sign in 1974 tour
By David Sedley
Gene Simmons attends a Friends of the Israel Defense Forces gala in Beverly Hills on November 5, 2015. (Noam Chem)
November 6, 2015, 9:31 pm
Star-studded US gala raises $31m for IDF, in one night
Actors Jason Alexander, Antonio Banderas, Liev Schreiber among guests at Beverly Hills event, with a performance by The Beach Boys
By AP
Gene Simmons performing with KISS in 2010. (CC BY/Wikipedia)
August 21, 2015, 6:28 pm
Gene Simmons’ home searched in child abuse probe; not a suspect
Reports suggest probe linked to possible crime at KISS singer’s LA home while he was on tour last year
By ToI Staff
Gene Simmons performing with KISS in 2010. (CC BY/Wikipedia)
September 4, 2014, 10:18 pm
A KISS for the homeland
Legendary rock band, fronted by Haifa-born Gene Simmons, to finally perform in Israel
By Gavriel Fiske
Gene Simmons and his wife, Shannon Tweed (photo credit: screenshot, YouTube)
August 16, 2014, 8:31 pm
KISS rocker sorry for attack on depressives
Gene Simmons apologizes for urging drug addicts and mentally ill to ‘just jump’ off a roof
By ToI Staff
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