Mr. Bieber, who was discovered on YouTube and is famous for tubes such as "Baby", is Israel for a concert, outdoor Thursday evening.
A spokesman for Mr. Netanyahu said that his Office had been approached with the idea of a meeting, and that the Prime Minister had been "open to that." Office of the Prime Minister then suggested including children of the communities in the South of Israel have been under intense rocket from Gaza these days.
"Unfortunately," said the spokesman, "that is impossible," which suggests that the representatives of Mr. Bieber had refused the idea of including children.
But a person involved in the Organization of the meeting on behalf of Mr. Bieber, stated that discussions had been returned to the coast for logistical, not political reasons, and that it was more a case of miscommunication than anything else.
The two parties have agreed that plans for a meeting had never been finalized.
A spokesman for Mr. Bieber said, "Justin welcomed the chance to meet with children in difficult circumstances, regardless of their origins, and in fact, he had already invited the children in the region of Sderot," referring to the Israeli city near the border of the Gaza Stripto attend his concert in Tel Aviv on Thursday.
Since Mr. Bieber arrived Monday in Israel, he was assailed by teenage girls screaming and overwhelmed by the paparazzi, bringing to complain on Twitter that he had even been hunted to the Holy places.
"They should be ashamed of themselves," he wrote on Tuesday. "Take photos of eating me but not in a place of worship, ludicrous."
In another message from Twitter, he wrote: "" I want to see this country and all the sites ive dreamed of and if its the fcfs or be fired in his politics was frustrating. ""
The representatives of Mr. Bieber, said that the last clause had nothing to do with Mr Netanyahu. Last Thursday, one Israeli 16 year-old boy was seriously wounded by an anti-tank missile fired by militants of Hamas in a school bus in Gaza. That triggered days of intense exchanges of fire, in which 18 Palestinians, nearly half of civilians, were killed.
Some international artists such as Elvis Costello and the Pixies refused to perform in Israel, for political reasons, in recent years, adding to the isolation Israelis sense. The arrival of other stars, including Joan Armatrading, Rihanna, Elton John and Rod Stewart, was celebrated as a sign of normalcy and acceptance.
During this time, the spokesman for Mr. Bieber noted that "despite some logistical challenges, Justin knows his first trip to Israel."
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