Israel has invited the surviving Beatles and relatives of all of the Fab Four to help celebrate the country's sixtieth anniversary, despite having banned the group forty three years ago due to fears that the sixties popular beat combo would corrupt young people in the state.
Israeli ambassador Ron Prosor has met with John Lennon's sister Julia Baird in Liverpool, and told reporters: "I would be very happy to have them come on Israel's 60th anniversary. Lots of music lovers in Israel, both young and young-at-heart - and that means me - are really waiting for them".