Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018
| Eurovision Song Contest 2018 | ||||
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| Country |  Israel |
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| National selection | ||||
| Selection process | Artist: HaKokhav HaBa L'Eurovizion Song: Internal Selection |
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| Selection date(s) | Artist: TBA Song: TBA |
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| Selected entrant | TBA | |||
| Selected song | "TBA" | |||
| Selected songwriter(s) | TBA | |||
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Israel will participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. The Israeli broadcaster Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (IPBC) will collaborate with the commercial broadcaster Keshet and Tedy Productions which will organize the reality singing competition HaKokhav HaBa L'Eurovizion ("The Next Star For Eurovision") to select the singer, while the song will be chosen by a committee of the Israeli broadcaster.
Contents
Background
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Prior to the 2018 Contest, Israel had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest forty times since its first entry in 1973.[1] Israel has won the contest on three occasions: in 1978 with the song "A-Ba-Ni-Bi" performed by Izhar Cohen and the Alphabeta, in 1979 with the song "Hallelujah" performed by Milk and Honey and in 1998 with the song "Diva" performed by Dana International. Since the introduction of semi-finals to the format of the Eurovision Song Contest in 2004, Israel has, to this point, managed to qualify to the final seven times, including three top ten results in 2005 with Shiri Maimon and "Hasheket Shenish'ar" placing fourth, in 2008 with Boaz and "The Fire In Your Eyes" placing ninth, and in 2015 with Nadav Guedj and "Golden Boy" placing ninth. Israel had failed to qualify to the final for four consecutive years between 2011 and 2014 prior to their qualification in 2015. In 2017, Imri Ziv represented Israel in Kyiv, Ukraine with the song "I Feel Alive". It ended 23rd out of 26 entries in the final.
The Israeli entry for the 2018 Contest in Lisbon, Portugal will be selected through the reality singing competition HaKokhav HaBa L'Eirovizion ("The Next Star for Eurovision"), which will be organised by Keshet and Tedy Productions. This will be the fourth time that the Israeli entry would be selected through a collaboration with Keshet and Tedy Productions.
Before Eurovision
HaKokhav HaBa L'Eurovizion
The singer who will perform the Israeli entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 will be selected through the reality singing competition HaKokhav HaBa L'Eurovizion ("The Next Star for Eurovision"), the original version of the international format Rising Star produced by Tedy Productions and Keshet Media Group. HaKokhav HaBa has been used since 2015 to select the Israeli artist for Eurovision. The shows will be hosted by Assi Azar and Rotem Sela and will feature a judging panel composed of Asaf Amdursky, Keren Peles, Harel Skaat (2010 Israeli Eurovision entrant) and Static & Ben-El Tavori. The competition consists of twenty shows, which commenced on 29 October 2017 and will conclude in late February/early March 2018. All shows in the competition will be broadcast on Channel 2 and Channel 12 as well as online via mako.co.il.
In the audition phase of the competition, performers will be required to achieve 70% of the votes during their performance in order to advance; each member of the judging panel can boost a performer's score by 10%. Following a change in the rules of the competition, the hosts of the shows can save up to five performers who did not manage to achieve 70% of the votes during the audition phase, thus the selected performers will also advance, regardless to their scores during the auditions.
Shows
Audition 1 (29 October 2017)
| Draw | Performer | Song | Judges' vote | Presenters' vote | Score | Result | ||||
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| Amdursky | Peles | Skaat | Static & Tavori | Sela | Azar | |||||
| 1 | Jackie Gaforov | "Feeling Good" | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | — | — | 76% | Advanced |
| 2 | Adva Omer | "Ratsiti ledaber itakh" |  |
Yes | Yes | Yes | — | — | 73% | Advanced |
| 3 | Tamir Cohen | "Kol boker" | |
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— | — | 6% | Eliminated |
| 4 | Jonathan Mergui | "How Far I'll Go" | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | — | — | 88% | Advanced |
| 5 | Mor Karbasi | "Im ha'ita ro'eh" | |
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Yes | Save | Save | 59% | Saved |
| 6 | Neta Barzilai | "Rude Boy" | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | — | — | 82% | Advanced |
Promotion
At Eurovision
Semi-final
Points awarded to Israel
Final
References
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