Short answer: Yes, in a cultural, non-political sense. Ozuna has performed in Israel twice, in 2019 and 2023, and on both occasions wrapped himself in the Israeli flag on stage and told the crowd he loved them. He shot part of a music video in Jerusalem and at the Dead Sea during his 2019 trip. There is no record of him making a political statement about the Israel-Gaza conflict, and he has never joined the BDS boycott of Israel. As of August 2026, that remains the full, verifiable record.
What Ozuna has actually said and done
- July 24, 2019: Ozuna played his first-ever Israel concert at Live Park in Rishon Lezion, a sold-out show. During the set he brought out both an Israeli flag and a Puerto Rican flag and told the crowd in Spanish that he loved their city, according to The Jerusalem Post and MidnightEast.
- July 2019: During that same trip, Ozuna toured Jerusalem and the Dead Sea and used footage from the visit in the music video for his song "Gracias," as reported by Tour Guide of Israel.
- July 31, 2023: Ozuna returned to Israel for a second headline show, again at Live Park in Rishon Lezion near Tel Aviv, performing a roughly 75-minute set covered by The Jerusalem Post and Tourist Israel.
- July 31, 2023: Toward the end of that 2023 show, Ozuna draped himself in an Israeli flag and repeatedly told the crowd he loved Tel Aviv, a moment The Jerusalem Post's reviewer called "a bold move" given the anti-Israel atmosphere present in parts of the entertainment industry at the time, per the same Jerusalem Post report and Tourist Israel.
Who is Ozuna, and what does his relationship with Israel look like?
Ozuna, born Juan Carlos Ozuna Rosado, is the Puerto Rican reggaeton and Latin trap star behind global hits like "Taki Taki" and "Baila Baila Baila." He has visited and performed in Israel twice, in July 2019 and again in July 2023, both times at the Live Park venue in Rishon Lezion near Tel Aviv. On both trips he engaged warmly and personally with the country: he brought Israeli and Puerto Rican flags on stage in 2019, and in 2023 draped an Israeli flag over himself while telling the crowd he loved them. His 2019 visit also produced tourist footage of Jerusalem and the Dead Sea that made its way into an official music video, an unusually personal souvenir of the trip beyond the concert itself.
There is no public record of Ozuna making a statement, political or otherwise, about the Israel-Gaza war, the BDS boycott movement, or the broader Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He has never appeared on any list of artists who canceled or boycotted Israel shows. His public relationship to the country reads as cultural and personal: two enthusiastic performances and a set of travel memories, not a political position.
The bottom line
Ozuna is a living artist with a genuinely warm, apolitical relationship to Israel. He chose to perform there twice, wrapped himself in the Israeli flag both times, and turned a 2019 visit to Jerusalem and the Dead Sea into part of a music video. He has never made a political statement on the conflict and has never associated with the BDS boycott. That combination, real stage moments, no anti-Israel record, is why fans looking to celebrate artists who have shown up for Israel often point to him.
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Last updated August 2026. We update these profiles as the record changes.
