It’s hard, even though the bottom line is awfully simple to sum up the event: it was a very successful performance by a very successful singer. Much more successful than I expected. Some catchy and good chants, performed flawlessly in front of a loving audience. It is obvious that Ben Ari is working on his voice, and is becoming a much more impressive singer than he was in the beginning. The familiar anthems threw the ceiling into the sky as expected, and even the less successful songs swept the elves in the stands. Much thanks to Ben Ari’s energetic charisma, which can probably no longer be called “surprising” at this point. Even the infamous sound of the Menorah Hall managed to surprise pleasantly with an enveloping sound experience. Some of the audience might call it private supervision, some might call it “professional sound people”. Maybe both are right. In the end, if there is a place in Israel where it is known that without faith CSKA would not have eaten it, it is probably the place.
But to summarize Hanan’s performance Ben Ari as “successful” or “sweeping” would be a sin to the truth, not because she was not successful or sweeping, but because she was not really an “appearance”, at least not in the classical sense of the word. It was an event. Others like “heart attack” or “security incident”, except that in this case it is the most basic meaning of the word: the realization of something abstract.
for two hours 8,000 viewers could feel Ben-Ari’s art flowing through their veins. Whether they were secular, religious, Oriental, Ashkenazi, children or the elderly. It seems impossible to scratch his face even with a rake, he managed to make it look easy. Everyone should take the last sentence wherever they want. That. It’s part of the business, and there seems to be no one in Israel today who does it better.
