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A few days after his last statement, Gil Ofarim contacted his fans again – this time with a much more personal message. In a video published on Instagram on Monday, the musician and reigning king of the jungle thanked everyone for his well-being wishes and also used the opportunity to take issue with media reports and headlines.
He is overwhelmed by the good wishes that have reached the singer, who is probably not yet fully recovered: “Thank you very much for the well wishes and the thousands of emails and DMs. Wow.” He explains that many messages began with sentences like: “I don’t usually write to anyone I know or famous.” To this he says: “Friends, don’t think anything. I am one of you. I am neither famous nor anything else. Let them speak and write what they want.”
Gil Ofarim: “Headings are headings”
At the same time, he makes a clear appeal to his fans to take a critical look at media reports about him (of which there have been plenty about him since the Star of David scandal): “Headlines are headlines, clickbaiting is clickbaiting. If there’s a crass headline somewhere, they just want you to click on that article.” The articles often have nothing to do with the headlines themselves, says Ofarim – that’s just how the system works in the age of social media.
Then it will be harmonious again. “I’m not that good with words, as you’ve probably noticed,” he says with a slight smile. That’s why he wanted to say thank you in the way he knows best: musically. “What I can do is say thank you musically. This is for you.” He then picks up the guitar and sings a short serenade for his fans. At the end, Ofarim addresses personal words directly into the camera: “Stay healthy, be good to yourselves, stay good to each other. Shalom,” he says before the video ends.
Ofarim advises fans against unauthorized biography
Just last week, Ofarim discussed an apparently newly published, unauthorized biography in a video and advised his followers against purchasing it. Instead, he recommended his own autobiography “Freedom in Me” from 2022, which is currently only available as an e-book.
