Landmarks and municipal buildings coast to coast, from Los Angeles City Hall to Boston’s Zakim Bridge and Florida’s Guitar Hotel, illuminated in blue and white (Israel’s national colors) to honor the Jewish state’s 73rd Independence Day on April 14 as part of the Israeli-American Council (IAC) “Celebrate Israel” festival.
These unprecedented tributes to Israel began the night of April 14 and ran through Sunday, April 18. Among the landmarks and buildings are Boston’s City Hall and Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge; Cleveland’s Terminal Tower; Denver City Hall; the Charles Braga Memorial Bridge in Fall River, Massachusetts; the Guitar Hotel at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Hollywood, Florida; Houston City Hall; Las Vegas City Hall; Los Angeles City Hall; Lake Orlando in Orlando, Florida; Rockville, Maryland City Hall (representing the Washington, D.C. region) and borough halls in New Jersey communities with sizable Israeli-American populations including Closter, Demarest, Fairlawn, Fort Lee, New Milford and Tenafly, as well as the Atlanta, Georgia suburb of Sandy Springs.
Celebrate Israel culminated in a global musical extravaganza featuring a lineup of major Israeli artists, live-streamed across the U.S. from Israel’s Jerusalem International Convention Center. Stars included Idan Raichel Project, Rami Kleinstein, T-Slam and Sarit Hadad.
“The Celebration of the Jewish state is a privilege and duty. This is why we had no question that even during a pandemic we must celebrate Israel. We are taking innovative and creative steps, to make sure we have a safe way to celebrate together as one community from coast to coast,” said IAC Co-Founder and CEO Shoham Nicolet.
