Overview
- Ticketed activists interrupted the performance three times, twice using smoke canisters, prompting scuffles in the audience and a brief halt to the music.
- Police intervened inside and outside the venue, the disruptors were removed, and the concert under Lahav Shani ultimately resumed and concluded.
- Prosecutors said four people were placed in custody, including three on suspicion of participating in a group planning violence or damage and one for organizing an undeclared demonstration.
- Videos circulating online show an activist who lit a smoke device being struck by other spectators before removal by security.
- The event followed weeks of dispute over hosting the Israel Philharmonic, with CGT-Spectacle urging contextualization, officials like Laurent Nuñez and Rachida Dati condemning the disturbances, and figures including Manon Aubry declining to condemn them.