Shauli Greenglick RIP, a Maccabi fan and one of the closest friends of Maccabi midfielder Gabi Kanichowsky, was dreaming to become a singer. Shauli’s close friends reveal that when he wanted something he would go withy his truth all the way. Shauli’s voice had the judges of ‘Israel’s rising star’, the TV show that picks Israel’s submission for the Eurovision song contest, in his palm when he performed Hanan Ben Ari’s popular ballad ‘A blind bat’. Dressed in army fatigues and lieutenant’s stripes, Greenglick, and IDF reservist at the Nahal infantry brigade, performed on stage while on furlough from his mobilization in the war against Hamas since October 7th.
Despite being green-lit for the next round in the selection process, Greenglick, ultimately opted to withdraw from the program and return to Gaza where he was killed in action. His close friend told Greenglick: “Don’t give up your dream and continue in the competition”. But Shauli replied in a post he published: “Now I’m living an old dream, of fighting for the country… A new, different dream will have to wait a bit” Greenglick wrote in Facebook post published on December 14th. At the age of 26 and on December 26th Shauli fell in action in battles in the North of Gaza.
Ahead of this year’s Memorial Day for Israel’s Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Hostile Acts, Maccabi’s full-back, Avishay Cohen, together with Shauli’s siter, Michal Greenglick, a special version for the song was recorded where Shauli’s voice from his performance in ‘Israel’s rising star’ was added in.
Peter Roth (Artistic Management), Amos Ben David (Processing and Production) and Ofir Kaner (Mix) were the people behind the scenes who made sure this exciting project succeeds.
