Former singer and political activist Bob Geldof will deliver the keynote address at a Jewish National Fund event in Sydney.
The annual fund-raiser, scheduled for Nov. 16, will promote the JNF’s Negev campaign.
Geldof, who is best known for organizing the Live Aid and Live 8 concerts that raised millions of dollars for Africa, recently told a Jewish function in Manchester, England, that he was “a quarter Catholic, a quarter Protestant, a quarter Jewish and a quarter nothing – the nothing won.”
The former Boomtown Rats front man recently described Australia as “one of the meanest countries on the planet” in terms of its foreign-aid program.
Geldof is an ambassador for Brisbane, the capital of Queensland.
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