Their cancellation is being taken as a victory by anti-Israel campaigners, who have been urging the band not to play in Tel Aviv because of the political situation.
Soon after the date, at Yarkon Park, was announced, the group Boycott From Within launched a campaign calling on the Chili Peppers not to support the Israeli government's "agenda of whitewashing its war crimes".
But the band, whose original guitarist Hillel Slovak was born in Haifa, has refused to bow to the pressure and instead will sing in the city, arriving a decade after they cancelled a show at the last minute following two suicide bombings in the space of one week. The attacks left 35 people dead
Also this week, the US actress Shannan Doherty, star of 1990s series Beverley Hi lls 90210, drew criticism from activists after tweeting enthusiastically about her visit to Israel.
"Lol ok political activist," she wrote in response. "Try not judging and reali s ing that other cultures and the study of them, provides insight."