7:05 a.m. THIS MONDAY. TOMORROW ON RADIO J. “ITS INNOVATIONS THAT CHANGE THE WORLD…”. Daniel Rouach, Editor-in-Chief of IsraelValley, met, by happy coincidence, the singer Gilbert Montagnié. The impromptu meeting took place at a beach restaurant in Tel Aviv, one of the best in the world.
Gilbert Montagné, a loyal Radio J listener, asked us to actively monitor Israeli innovations intended for the blind. Here, a brief extract from our show which will be live tomorrow…
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– Did you know? The company RightHear, founded by Gil Elgrably and Idan Meir in 2015, transforms the lives of visually impaired people by allowing them to move independently in a variety of spaces, from national parks to shopping centers.
Today, thousands of users take advantage of this solution d’orientation audio RightHear in more than 2,500 locations – restaurants, hospitals, hotels, theaters, airports and college campuses around the world.
– Did you know that? Israeli researchers have designed a bionic contact lens that would allow blind people to “regain their sight”. Thanks to a camera and a wireless network, the lens, still in the experimental phase, would be able to transfer visual information to the numerous sensory receptors in the cornea.
MOST. Pascal Praud shocked by Gilbert Montagné’s revelation about his religion.
On the occasion of the reopening of Notre Dame de Paris, this November 29, 2024, after 5 years of work, Pascal Praud received Gilbert Montagné in “Time for the pros”. Came to promote an album of covers, the singer of “ We’re going to love each other”confided in his faith.
He explained to the CNews host that “ Oh yes“, he was a believer. And to add: “ I believe in the light of heaven which is the most important light.” Blind for a few days after his birth, the star of the song quipped: “ So, we can say ‘yeah, it’s easy, you don’t see the electric light’. Yeah ok, it’s true that It is the light of heaven that guides me ».
Pascal Praud surprised, Gilbert Montagné, “are you Jewish”?
Concerning his practice, Pascal Praud asked him if he went to church. And Gilbert Montagné admitted to him: “ I went to church at first, because mom was so afraid that anti-Semitism would start again that she wanted me to have a Catholic religious education.”
And to add: “ I did everything, I served mass, I know the whole total by heart“. A little surprised by this confidence, Pascal Praud asked his guest, almost as Louis de Funès had done in Rabbi Jacob: “Because you are Jewish? »
Gilbert Montagné then replied with humor: “ Yes, but I have my papers eh, no I’m joking.” He also recalled: “ Like Jesus in fact.”
Pascal Praud then revealed to him: « I didn’t know you were Jewish« . Gilbert Montagné explained to him: “ Well no I didn’t write it on the walls.”
His religion, Gilbert Montagné spoke about it in a book, released in 2011, entitled “ I always knew it was you”. The singer, also a writer, told the story of his mother, born Jeanne Kalfon, who changed her name during the Second World War to escape deportation.
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