Former Beatle Paul McCartney announced on Thursday that he would not be coming to Israel later this month to receive the Wolf Award for Music, which he received in February.
"It's very flattering and I'm grateful to have been chosen for the Wolf Music Award this year," McCartney said, according to the Haaretz newspaper. "It's definitely a great honor for me to be among the best artists, creators, scientists and writers in history today, but after reviewing my agenda, I have to announce that I will not be able to reach the set date. "
The prestigious Wolf Award was founded in 1975. It was awarded in five fields, four in science and one in arts, in a fixed rotation.
The music prize will be awarded to McCartney and Adam Fischer, conductor and human rights defender; the price of agriculture to Prof. Gene Robinson of the University of Illinois for leading the genome revolution in the biology of honey bee populations; the Chemistry Prize to Prof. Makuto Fujita from Tokyo University and Prof. Omar Yaghi of the University of California at Berkeley for his contributions to supramolecular chemistry.
Last month, actress Natalie Portman revealed that she would not have arrived in Israel to receive the Genesis Award. The US-Israeli double citizen said in a statement that he had canceled his arrival when he learned that Netanyahu was to speak at the ceremony.
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