Get ready for the queen of pop - Madonna's MDNA world tour about to debut in Israel

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Madonna alert – as always, look away now if you don’t share my obsessive love of the most amazing woman on the planet.

Today is the eve of the launch of her MDNA tour in Israel, and in my Madonna-maniacal world, this is an occasion of great importance.

Forget the Olympics, or something about someone else celebrating 60 years on the job this weekend, Madonna is on tour again, life doesn’t get much better.

Today also marks the start of the 48-day countdown to her performance in London’s Hyde Part in July.

But for now the focus is on Israel, where in a few short hours the queen of pop will take to the stage to do what no-one else will ever do as well.

Some 4,000 tourists have descended on Tel Aviv ahead of tomorrow’s show according to local reports.

She has taken a 70-person crew with her, and reportedly spent the past weekend touring holy sites.


Her four children have joined her, and there will be a customised play area be built on the grounds of the Ramat Gan Stadium with a pool.

After Israel the tour will hit  Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, before Europe and London later in the summer.

In Abu-Dhabi  200 workers are building new road networks and grass areas around the Du Arena ahead of Madonna’s arrival.

The first pictures and clips of the tour rehearsal have started to emerge.

And the first reports are that the show is "dark, twisted, gothic and sexy" - can't wait!


The triangle-shaped stage consists of two walkways for Madonna to walk into the crowd and an enclosed area where audience members can get close to the stage. 

There will also be a huge, three-part video screen that promoters have called the largest in the world.

Madonna will perform a mash-up of Express Yourself with Lady Gaga’s Born This Way – apparently a nod to the latter’s mimicry of the Queen of Pop.

The tour will finish in December in the United States, and will have been Madonna’s ninth world tour.

All Madonna fans out there, enjoy – and maybe see you at Hyde Park.

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