Nation keeps fingers crossed for much-loved rock icon.
Yitzhak Klepter is in a bad way. The veteran rock guitarist and vocalist, who turns 68 on Saturday (March 31), has pneumonia and is currently on life support at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv. Klepter, a heavy smoker, has a history of health problems. In the late 1970s he was diagnosed as schizophrenic, and was hospitalized with respiratory complications in 2011. In 2000 the full complement of seminal Israeli rock band Kaveret got together for an impromptu reunion show at the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv, as a fundraiser for Klepter’s impending brain surgery.
