Political Fault Lines Emerge at Massive Concerts by Omer Adam and Aviv Geffen

With about four months left before Israel’s elections, a large N12 magazine report examined the political mood among tens of thousands of fans at two major concerts, Aviv Geffen’s rock show in Yarkon Park and Omer Adam’s run at Ramat Gan Stadium. The piece portrays the two venues as cultural and political mirrors of a divided country, where music preferences often overlap with identity, religion, class, and voting patterns.

At Adam’s show, many fans described him as beloved, mainstream, traditional, and close to religion, and several said that translated into support for Likud, Benjamin Netanyahu, or Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir. One fan from Beer Sheva estimated that “80%” of the crowd was Likud, with another 10% for Ben Gvir. Others said Adam’s audience is “more popular, more traditional,” and therefore leans right. Still, some fans broke the stereotype, including Shiri from Modi’in, who said she would vote for Yair Lapid but would still listen to Adam because politics and music are different.

At Geffen’s concert, fans repeatedly described his music as emotional, therapeutic, and tied to sadness over the war, the dead, and the national atmosphere. Geffen himself told the crowd that his audience includes “right, center and left,” and urged them to “choose hope, choose our children, choose togetherness, choose equality, choose peace,” while shouting, “We want change.” Many in the audience said they had moved left or toward the center after October 7, with some now backing Benny Gantz, Yair Golan, Yair Lapid, Avigdor Lieberman, or Naftali Bennett. One woman said Geffen is “more affordable than a psychologist.”

The report concludes that the split is not absolute: some Adam fans oppose Netanyahu, and some Geffen fans vote right or consider voting not at all. But the concerts still revealed a broad pattern, Adam as the soundtrack of a more traditional, right-leaning crowd, and Geffen as a space for protest, grief, and calls for change.