Singer Ben Artzi, son of Shlomo Artzi, gave an interview to Ynet's Weekend Magazine, and stated that repenting is an option for him.
""Yesterday I came across an interview by Yael Dan with Uri Zohar, mainly about his repentance. I looked at it, and this is not the first time I asked myself: Will I repent someday?" he said.
""It's an option for me. Uri Zohar is a man who lives a much more extreme life than I do, I'm really sorry, but I listened to his reasoning and thought to myself, I might find myself there. It's not that I'm not with God now. My God is not at all related to religion, but I would go and check out what's there in depth, out of dissatisfaction with the secular way of life, out of some feeling of lack, of emptiness.
""It may not be there, but maybe it's a country worth traveling to and seeing if there's something there that I've always been looking for.".
In October last year, Artzi spoke about his faith in an interview with the "Yiddhar" channel: "I am a person who believes in God, in that there is meaning to our existence, that our soul is here for a reason, that it came here to do something. I talk to God always and I find Him in most things.".
Ben Artzi's grandfather, Yitzhak (Ezio) Artzi (Herzig), who served as a member of Knesset for the Independent Liberals faction, was born into a Hasidic family and was raised by his grandfather, Avraham Katz, who was a Vizhnitz Hasid.
His grandmother Margalit, née Likwarnik, was the niece of the founder of 'Daf Yomi' - her mother Rachel was the sister of the late Rabbi Meir Shapira.
