If you don’t know who Idan Amedi is, let’s make it clear. He’s a 37-year-old Israeli heartthrob from Jerusalem who has the attention of every Israeli woman and …man in the country. He’s known for his singing voice, intimate guitar ballads, his prominent acting role in the globally recognized show Fauda and for rising up from the fires of Gaza. Yes, that’s right. The singer actor enlisted in the reserve forces during this war, was nearly covered in burns during a major explosion in the strip, came back, healed up and spent months recovering during an intensive hospital stay, and is now executing a string of concerts around the country to highlight his new album called Superman. But that is not all. Amedi is cooperating with an organization called One Family who brought 500 bereaved family members to the March 6th, 2025 concert. The tickets for those grieving members of the community were either free, or a nominal fee of 70 shekels which is just under 20 bucks. People in the crowd were weeping at times. One young man near the Israel Daily News team was so distraught over the loss of a family member, that he had to leave the stadium for a short time.
Amedi’s lyrics were very in touch with the country’s collective feeling and he mentioned so many times about how many real life heroes there are throughout the state of israel, which is a message many concert goers we spoke with said resonated with the way they see their families who they lost.
The evening was organized to play a role in their healing journey, allowing them to connect with others who share their pain and loss in a setting beyond traditional support groups. Amedi shared stories, some between songs and some while he was seated at the piano, which was a particularly intense experience. His show producer was also with him in Gaza as a medic and Amedi shared the juxtaposition of the two having passed one another musical gear and just two months later passing each other medical equipment to save the lives of dying soldiers on the battlefield.
The 2-hour concert was very full and very powerful. People hugged one another and families, so so so many families brought banners and flags with the faces of their loved ones on them. The hall was filled with a lot of grieving army families and Amedi’s soulful songs, some of which were specifically about the war, gave the crowd a strong experience.
Amedi is a man of many talents and clearly someone who cares about art for the sake of making art and highlighting art. His show had every instrument you could think of, bringing in the top talents from around the country to his stage. He shared songs with violinists, saxophonists and he himself played guitar, piano and ended on the harmonica. His final song included a live painting – yes– he brought a female painter to the stage. And she painted a canvas in the three to five minutes of his song. The painting depicted a little child walking through a field with red tulips coming out of the grass.
Amedi also honored his Kurdish heritage, having been born to a Kurdish Jewish family in Jerusalem. He even sang a song in Kurdish. Amedi is the name of a place in Kurdish Iran.
OneFamily previously took a similar delegation of 500 bereaved teenagers and young adults to the first concert of Amedi’s tour last month in Jerusalem. This tour is Idan’s first set of public performances since he was injured while serving in the IDF reserves in Gaza.
Amedi’s accident made big news after the January 8th explosion where he served in the Combat Engineering Corps reserves as a commander. Six of his soldiers were killed and several others, including Amedi, were injured in the incident. Reports show this whole incident was accidentally caused by IDF troops.
Amedi told journalists during a press conference that he was burned to the point that no one recognized him and that shrapnel pierced his neck and spine and that he is lucky none of it hit any main blood vessels. He had broken bones and broken fingers but healed – and is able to play guitar again.
He worked hard on his rehabilitation and said the one thing he was looking forward to was being able to pick up his kids again.
In December 2024, Amedi performed for One Family’s winter camp which hosted 400 bereaved youth who gathered for three days of healing and support.
Amedi promised that he would take everyone’s flag, banner, shirt with their loved ones faces and get it on stage. And throughout the evening, he did. The show was televised.
We were able to speak with some of the people whom he invited to his show. Stav Sela who lost her brother on October 7th as well as Jessica Elter, who lost her boyfriend and now does loads of media appearances talking about his fight to save people on October 7th. To hear their voices and thoughts on the show, listen to our podcast by clicking here.
“Superman” is Idan Amedi sixth album, which was released in January 2025, about a year after his big injury in the Gaza Strip. The album includes 13 new songs, including “Superman,” which he began the show with and is Amedi’s most personal and revealing album because it discusses his road to recovery and having lost two childhood friends on the battlefield.
All of the songs on the new album were written and composed by Amedi himself.
Amedi did a show in Jerusalem in February, 7 shows in Tel Aviv which all sold out and hes just announced his first ever US Tour with concerts in Florida, New York and LA throughout the month of May. Head over to our social media pages at israel daily dot news to see the concert, which was super well produced by the way – with lots of great images and colors on the display. We have the video clip posted there.
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