JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Singer Ben Artzi, the son of iconic Israeli folk singer Shlomo Artzi, gave an interview to Ynet’s weekend magazine and said that becoming religious is a possibility for him.

“Yesterday I came across an interview that Yael Dan did with Uri Zohar, mainly about his return to religion. I watched it, and it wasn’t the first time I asked myself: Will I become religious someday?” he said.

“It’s an option for me. Uri Zohar lived a much more extreme life than mine, I’m not really a nerd, but I listened to his reasoning and thought to myself: I could find myself there. It’s not that I’m currently without G-d. My G-d isn’t really connected to religion at all, but I would go and explore what’s there more deeply, out of dissatisfaction with the secular way of life, from a certain feeling of something missing, of emptiness.

“Maybe it’s not there either, but perhaps it’s a land worth traveling to and seeing whether it contains something I’ve been searching for all my life.”

In October of last year, Artzi spoke about his faith in an interview with the Hidabroot channel:

“I am a person who believes in G-d, in the idea that our existence has meaning, that our soul is here for a reason, that it came here to accomplish something. I talk to G-d all the time, and I find Him in most things.”

Ben Artzi’s grandfather, Yitzhak Artzi (Icio Artzi), who served as a member of the Knesset for the Independent Liberals party, was born into a Hasidic family and was raised by his grandfather, Abraham Katz, a follower of the Vizhnitz Hasidic dynasty.

His grandmother, Margalit Likvornik Artzi, a survivor of Auschwitz, was a niece of Rabbi Meir Shapiro, the founder of the Daf Yomi program; her mother Rachel was Rabbi Shapiro’s sister.