The singer and her boyfriend were received in a bilingual school in Jerusalem, where dozens of children wearing shirts of Barcelona · "We have to win the game against discrimination," he asked during an event
Colombian singer Shakira, the girlfriend of Gerard Pique Barcelona player, said in Jerusalem with Israeli President Shimon Peres, who wants a world "as the club" to "win the game against discrimination."
"I want a world that works as a team, as the club does. This way we can win the match against discrimination, "he said in a press conference while Gerard Piqué watched from the front row.
Shakira had another mention of the Catalan club to remember that some of the hundreds of Jewish and Arab children who received a bilingual school in Jerusalem wearing shirts of Barcelona.
"This visit is an opportunity to highlight the importance of how to raise (...) The good thing about our children's education is that it takes fifty or a hundred years to see results but you can see every day immediately, "he said.
The octogenarian Peres starred in the story of the day to call `Sharika 'to the artistic success of Barranquilla, corrected him politely.
Peres argued immediately that he had confused because I wanted to draw a parallel between the name of the singer and a word Greek.
Shakira participates in the opening session of a conference sponsored forum entitled Peres called 'Facing Tomorrow 2011' initiative, which addresses among other things strategies to ensure the protection and education in childhood.
Peres's foundation has signed agreements of cooperation both with FC Barcelona Foundation and the founding of Shakira, 'Barefoot' to promote education and training children in the values of sport.
Shakira was received with great jubilation by hundreds of children who sang the 'Waka-Waka' (official World Cup song) at a ceremony in the schoolyard organized by UNICEF.
The singer, who went to the center unaccompanied by Piqué, mingled with the small, many of whom wore a Barca shirt, and do not hesitate to hug and greet everyone he could while he sat among them in the first row to see the performance.
The artist and her boyfriend are from yesterday in Jerusalem, where they could visit the ancient citadel and the Wailing Wall.