About 43 years after the Beatles were denied a previously-scheduled concert in Israel, Sir Paul McCartney is about to perform for the first time in the Middle-Eastern country. The singer announced o Wednesday that he planned a concert in Israel for next month.

The concert of the famous Beatles member is scheduled for September 25 in Tel Aviv, according to McCartney’s Web site. The Beatles were very close to perform in a concert in Israel in 1965, but the show was scrapped when the official permission necessary to withdraw foreign currency wasn’t granted by the ministerial committee. However, the scrapped concert became legendary and after more than 40 years at least one of the Beatles will most likely go all the way.

There are two stories about what caused the cancellation of the concert in 1965. The most popular version explains the move by underlining the Israeli government’s fear that the Beatles would corrupt the country's youth, while the second version of the story revolves around a disagreement between two concert promoters. The latter version of events was published by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

However, the point of this article could be summarized by a quoting from Paul McCartney’s Web site which said that the Israelis "will finally get the chance to experience a night of music and history they have been waiting decades for."

The tickets are already on the market and can be purchased online at prices varying from 490 shekels to 1,500 shekels ($140 to $427 U.S.).

The concert will be called “Friendship First” and promoters are investing as much as $10 million to produce it.

As for the past attempts to organize a Beatles concert in Israel, the country’s ambassador to Britain, Ron Prosor, presented his written apologies to Mccartney and Ringo Starr for the “missed opportunity” from the mid-60s.