‘American Idol’ Frontrunner Pays Tribute to Rabin
Years before Adam Lambert, this season’s “American Idol” frontrunner, made Simon Cowell go weak at the knees, he sang Shir Lashalom alongside Noa Dori and Maya Haddi at a 2005 Yitzhak Rabin tribute concert:
A year earlier, Lambert won rave reviews for his performance as Joshua in a musical version of “The Ten Commandments,” staged in Los Angeles. Here he sings, “Is Anybody Listening?”:
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