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Israel: The search for Eurovision 2024 begins!

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The talent show HaKokhav HaBa (Rising Star) starts its broadcast tonight in Israel. The winner of the show will represent the country in Eurovision 2024.

HaKokhav HaBa returns as a method of selecting the artist representing Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest after 2020. The show was scheduled to start earlier this month, but the armed conflict with Hamas delayed its launch.

Tonight, however, we will watch the first episode of the auditions, which took place a week ago in Jerusalem. The results will be determined by a 60% jury vote and a 40% audience focus group vote. The HaKokhav HaBa jury includes Asaf Amdursky, Itay Levy, Keren Peles, Shiri Maimon, Ran Danker and Eden Hason. The presenters of the show are Assi Azzar and Rotem Sela.

Through HaKokhav HaBa, Israel managed to qualify for the Grand Final every year, and in 2018 Netta won the contest!

This year Israel was represented by the country’s super star Noa Kirel with the song Unicorn, placing third in the Grand Final.

Stay tuned at EurovisionFun for all the latest news regarding our favourite Contest!

 

Israel: Through Rising Star the representative for Eurovision 2024!

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Earlier today, the Israeli National Broadcaster KAN, decided to return to a familiar selection method for their representative in the 68th Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden. The country’s next representative will be selected through the music talent show Rising Star.

Rising Star was used from 2015 until 2020, to select the artist that represented Israel at the Song Contest. In fact, the results were quite positive, since the country always managed to qualify for the final, while Netta, who was selected from the show, won Eurovision in 2018 with “Toy“.

Based on what happened in previous years, after the talent show, the public broadcaster usually organised one more night, in which, a Jury and the audience chose the song for the winning artist to represent the country at Eurovision 2024.

More informations about the talent show will be given in later time.

Israel was represented this year by Noa Kirel with the song “Unicorn“, after an internal selection was held by Israel’s Public Television. The song ended up in third place with 362 points.

You can watch Noa’s apperance in the Grand Final here:

https://youtu.be/Z3mIcCllJXY

Stay tuned on EurovisionFun for all the latest news regarding Israel’s participation in Eurovision 2024!