Noa Kirel’s First Post-Hospitalization Performance Set for Youth Enlistment Festival

Noa Kirel is expected to return to the stage next week after her hospitalization, with her first performance back slated for the 22nd annual “Yoter” festival organized by the Association for Soldiers and IDF. The event is aimed at high school seniors and graduates preparing for military or national service.

Kirel and her husband, footballer Daniel Peretz, had traveled to Tokyo for their belated honeymoon seven months after their wedding, but she felt unwell shortly after landing. She was flown back to Israel and admitted to a hospital in central Israel, with the situation initially kept quiet.

Kirel later reassured fans from her hospital bed, posting a photo with Peretz holding her hand and writing: “We planned a honeymoon, but my appendix did not really cooperate.” She thanked people for their concern, said she was feeling better, and added: “I have a perfect husband who took care of me. Only health, amen.”

The “Yoter for Enlistees” festival will take place on June 23 to 24 at Ganei Yehoshua Park in Tel Aviv. Entry will be free for the target audience, and each day is expected to draw about 18,000 to 20,000 teenagers. The festival will promote enlistment to the IDF amid Israel’s current security tensions, and will also feature Hanan Ben Ari, Agam Buhbut, Sasson Shaulov, Mercedes Band, Yonatan Kalimi, Tamar Yehulami, DJ Eran Barnea, Elin Golan, Maya Dadon, Mika Moshe, and the band Gedolim BaMaddim. The report also noted that Kirel has recently been in advanced talks to join the Hanukkah PessiGAT festival cast after a year away.