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Article: AT THE ELVIS DINER IN ISRAEL, FANS STILL GET ALL SHOOK UP
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- Chicago Jewish Star
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- August 24, 2007
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While Elvis Presley checked out of this world's Heartbreak Hotel 30 years ago, on August 16, 1977, Israel's diehard Elvis fans are still shook up about The King.
Last week, on August 16, nine Elvis impersonators (including two women) assembled at the Elvis Diner at Neve Ilan, a truck stop and shrine just off the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem expressway, six miles west of the capital, for a daylong celebration of the life of a man they revere as a proud blue suede Jew.
Among them was Herzl Shimoni, decked out in his finest Duck's Ass haircut and tight bell-bottoms.
"When Elvis died, I mourned for the whole month. I didn't want to lose him ... I decided then that I would start to perform his songs," ...
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