Dylan To Perform in Israel

Haaretz newspaper reported on Thursday that Bob Dylan will be performing in Israel on June 20, 2011. The report said that Dylan, who will turn 70 in May, would play a single concert at the Ran Gan stadium near Tel Aviv, Israel's biggest with a capacity of 40,000. Haaretz said the performance would be part of Dylan's world tour, due to start next month in Taiwan. The paper said that the performance was being organised by local promoter Marcel Avraham, who also staged a 2009 Leonard Cohen concert and a 2010 show by Elton John and is due to bring Justin Bieber to Israel next month. The singer-songwriter has played Israel twice before, in 1987 and 1993. source