Paul McCartney to Perform His First Concert in Israel

Paul McCartney will play his first concert in Israel next month, more than 40 years after a Beatles concert was blocked from performing, Reuters reported Wednesday.

The singer posted on his Web site that he will perform in Tel Aviv on September 25.

Israelis "will finally get the chance to experience a night of music and history they have been waiting decades for," McCartney's Web site announced Wednesday through a press release.

Tickets are already on sale online and range from 490 shekels to 1,500 shekels, roughly between $140 and $427 U.S. dollars.

Promoters are marketing the concert as one of the biggest performances for the country and hope that McCartney's show will pave the road for other stars to travel to Israel, according to CNN.com.

The concert will cost around $10 million to produce and promoters are hoping to make a profit.

The Beatles had planned to perform in Israel in the mid-1960s, at the height of Beatlemania. The concert was eventually called off for a variety of rumored reasons and the Beatles never played in Israel. It was widely believed that the Israeli government cancelled the concert because they feared it would corrupt the Israeli youth.

A more recent account from an Israeli newspaper states that the concert was actually scrapped due to a rift between two concert promoters.

The concert will be billed as the "Friendship First" concert.