Short answer: Yes. Luis Fonsi has a consistent, if quiet, record of warmth toward Israel. He joined an official week-long trip to Israel in March 2016, publicly welcomed a Hebrew cover of "Despacito" in 2017 with a message ending "Israel, see you soon!", and lent his voice to a 2021 ad campaign for the Israeli company Playtika. There is no record of him joining any anti-Israel boycott or making any critical statement about the country. As of August 2026, that remains the full public record.
What Luis Fonsi has actually said and done
March 13-20, 2016: An official trip to Israel. Fonsi joined a week-long visit to Israel for Hispanic entertainment figures, organized by Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs together with America's Voices in Israel. The group toured Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Nazareth, Safed, Jerusalem, Masada, and the Dead Sea. Fonsi also had a private visit to Israeli musician Idan Raichel's home studio in Kfar Saba, where Raichel performed songs with him, according to ISRAEL21c.
Early June 2017: A Hebrew "Despacito" takes off. Israeli musicians Ram Vashdi and Shoval Moshon released a Hebrew-translated version of "Despacito" on YouTube, part of a broader wave of Hebrew and Yiddish covers of the song circulating in Israel that year, reported by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
August 25, 2017: Fonsi reposts a Jewish wedding cover with a message for Israel. Fonsi reposted a video of Hasidic wedding performers Yossi Shtendig and Levy Falkowitz playing a Hebrew rendition of "Despacito." His caption, translated from Spanish, said music "does not discriminate" across religion, culture, race, or language, and closed with "Israel, see you soon!" according to Simcha Spot, which cited Fonsi's own Instagram post; JTA covered a separate Hebrew cover of the song that same year, by Israeli musicians Ram Vashdi and Shoval Moshon, as evidence of how widely the track traveled.
March 9, 2021: A commercial partnership with an Israeli company. Fonsi and Nicole Scherzinger released "She's BINGO," a promotional single and video for Bingo Blitz, the flagship game of Israeli gaming company Playtika. Fonsi said he was glad to take part in the project, per The Jerusalem Post.
Context: who Luis Fonsi is and where he stands
Luis Fonsi (born April 15, 1978) is the Puerto Rican singer and songwriter best known for the global smash "Despacito." He is alive and active; no reliable outlet has reported otherwise, and celebrity-death-hoax sites are not treated as sources here.
On Israel specifically, the record is thin in volume but consistently positive. His most substantive engagement was the official March 2016 cultural trip, arranged through Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs alongside other Latin entertainment figures. He later reposted the Hebrew cover of his own biggest hit with a warm, inclusive message and a direct sign-off to Israel, and in 2021 he fronted a commercial campaign for the Israeli gaming company Playtika.
No search turned up any statement from Fonsi about the Israel-Hamas war, the October 7, 2023 attack, or the Gaza conflict, and he does not appear on any published list of artists boycotting Israel or pulling music from Israeli platforms. Nothing in the record ties him to Jewish ancestry; that idea appears to be a mix-up with the unrelated story of Hebrew and Yiddish "Despacito" covers becoming popular in religious Jewish communities, not his own background.
The bottom line
Luis Fonsi is not a political spokesman for Israel, but the public record shows he has visited the country, publicly welcomed its embrace of his music, and worked commercially with an Israeli company, with zero evidence of boycott participation or criticism. On balance, he reads as a quiet friend of Israel rather than someone neutral or uninvolved.
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Last updated August 2026. We update these profiles as the record changes.
