Haifa singer and child star Hila Harari Known as Hillel, who has a career in the entertainment industry spanning over 20 years, recently revealed that she received an offer to participate in a Hanukkah production on the condition that she pay an unimaginable sum of 400 NIS from her own pocket! Hila Deeply hurt by the offer, she refused and decided to share what she went through with the general public. Her video online went viral and attracted thousands of comments, as well as leading to huge articles and enormous exposure of nearly 3 million viewers.
Recently, precisely after the storm, she received the phone call that changed the entire picture, producers "Magic of Stars" Misgav Productions, who were not involved in the original proposal, were exposed to the article and were shocked by the story. They decided to contact Hila on their own initiative and offer her to participate in their huge production for the upcoming Hanukkah holiday.
This is how the singer Hila Harari Who was asked to pay a whopping 400 NIS to get a spot in another Hanukkah production, will star this year in "The Magic of Stars" alongside the Leorio family, funny Roiki, Sammy the Fireman and Gaga the Crazy Duck, and all of this not because of money. Not because of connections. But because of her talent, voice and uniqueness as an artist!
This story raises a much bigger question: Is talent no longer enough in the children's show industry in Israel to perform on the big stages? How many other artists receive such offers and choose to remain silent? And how does an artist who dedicates more than 20 years of her life to the stage feel when she is asked to pay hundreds of thousands of shekels from her own pocket for the right to perform?
Hila does not intend to reveal the identity of the factors behind the original proposal. Its goal is not to hurt anyone, but to open a real dialogue about the place of artists and the value of talent in the Israeli entertainment industry, because some saw it as 400 thousand NIS and some saw it as 20 years of talent! There is no doubt that this is a story with a storm, a surprising turn and one question, which the entire entertainment industry must deal with.