The successful singer Ran Denker released this morning (Monday) a new single called “Everything I wanted to be”. Danker wrote and composed the song with Ron Beaton and Stav Bager, who is also responsible for the arrangement. The music video filmed in Poland was directed by the international director Indy Hait.
“In everything related to culture, I don’t have much to say except for some message that is perhaps banal and very clear,” Denker said in an interview with Channel 2. Talking at all about closing things on Shabbat, it only shows the direction the country is going, which is one-dimensional and very extreme in my eyes in many ways, and I hope that storms come and storms also subside.
“In the meantime, I hope we will be able to keep our heads above water and remain in a democratic-cultural country that understands that culture has a lot of power to give hope to people and make this place better, more beautiful, with the plurality of opinions, sexes and genders.”
On the eve of the song’s release, Minister of Culture and Sports Miki Zohar caused an uproar, when he announced that his office would stop funding the “Israeli Saturday” initiative initiated by his predecessor in office, to open heritage and tourism sites to subsidize plays and performances in the periphery on Saturdays. Today his office announced that the activities held on Shabbat will continue.