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\"\"<\/a>WHEN TOM PETTY HUNG OUT WITH AN ORTHODOX ROCK BAND IN ISRAEL<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

GABE FRIEDMAN\/JTA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Tom Petty played in Israel for the first time in September 1987.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Singer and songwriter Tom Petty performs during the half time show of the NFL’s Super Bowl XLII football game between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants in Glendale, Arizona, U.S., February 3, 2008. (photo credit:REUTERS\/LUCY NICHOLSON\/FILE PHOTO)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Tom Petty, whose hits such as \u201cAmerican Girl,\u201d \u201cFree Falling\u201d and \u201cI Won\u2019t Back Down\u201d made him one of the biggest rock stars of all time, passed away Monday at 66.<\/p>\n

In the course of his decades of touring the world, Petty was bound to end up playing in Israel \u2014 and he did for the first time in September 1987, at the start of his \u201cTemple in Flames\u201d tour. Earlier that year he had released \u201cLet Me Up (I\u2019ve Had Enough),\u201d his seventh album with his band, the Heartbreakers.<\/p>\n

In a show called \u201cRock Israel,\u201d MTV chronicled part of Petty\u2019s trip to the Holy Land, which the rocker described as a whirlwind. In a clip available on YouTube, Petty meets with Avraham Rosenblum, leader of a Hasidic band called the Diaspora Yeshiva Band that blended rock and bluegrass with religious lyrics.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not really familiar enough with the rules and regulations of the religion,\u201d Petty says. \u201cI think anybody should be able to pick up an instrument and jump around.\u201d<\/p>\n

Petty visited the Western Wall and met Rosenblum there.<\/p>\n

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