Israel terror: Bono dedicates U2 concert to slain festival victims

U2 performed at Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv in 1997, but the band turned down an invitation to play in Israel a decade later. In 2010, they announced that they would play a concert in Israel the following summer, but pressure from pro-Palestinian groups urging Bono to boycott the Jewish state meant that the show never materialised. 

However, the frontman showed his support for Jewish people when the band rescheduled a 2009 concert at Giants Stadium, New Jersey, so that the date would not coincide with Yom Kippur.

Bono returned to Israel in 2012 on a personal visit and is said to have stayed at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel in Jerusalem, where he reportedly signed the guestbook with, “In Jerusalem, hope springs eternal.”