Israel has spoken! The winning song of HaShir HaBa L'Eurovizion is "Feker Libi", chosen in the hope of getting another high result in Rotterdam this year! After winning Eurovision in 2018 and having hosted it in Tel Aviv last year, they are putting their hopes on Eden Alene, the winner of HaKokhav HaBa L'Eurovizion (The Next star For Eurovision), to try and take the throne again for Israel. The song was chosen by a 50/50 combination of professional juries and televoters. Out

Following her win of the 7th season of HaKokhav HaBa (Rising Star), Eden Alene is this year's representative of Israel for the Eurovision Song Contest. On the 27th of February, Israeli broadcaster IPBC released the four songs that were composed for Eden, out of which one will be chosen through an additional show, which will also allow the public to vote, after years of the songs being internally selected. The show will take place on the 3 March, where Eden will perform all th

Eden Alene has been crowned the winner of HaKokhav HaBa L’Eurovizion (The Next Star For Eurovision), and will fly the flag for Israel at Eurovision 2020. 19 year old Eden, born in Kiryat Gat, is an Ethiopian-Israeli singer who rose to fame after winning X Factor Israel in 2018. The final of HaKokhav HaBa L’Eurovizion was comprised of two rounds. Round one saw the four finalists competing against each other in two duels. Eden Alene and Orr Amrami-Brockman were first up, and af

It's been just over two months since Israel hosted Eurovision 2019, and they are already looking ahead to Eurovision 2020 in The Netherlands! The Israeli broadcaster, KAN, have revealed details of their national selection for Eurovision 2020, which includes some changes. For the fifth year running, they will be using HaKokhav HaBa L'Eurovizion (Rising Star), organised by Israeli broadcaster Reshet, to select their singer for Eurovision 2020. However, due to criticism of the c

Israeli representative for this years contest, Kobi Marimi, has released a new, revamped version of "Home", which you can hear via this link here. Kobi's operatic singing at the beginning of the song has now been replaced by an classical instrumental instead and we can hear throughout the song that the backing track has been made stronger, with more instrumentation, which has elevated the song. Kobi will be joined on stage by 5 backing singers, who will be standing at the sid

It has been revealed that the song Kobi Marimi will sing at Eurovision 2019 has been chosen - and it's called "Home". Out of 200 submitted entries, the committee that was responsible for listening to all of the entries narrowed their search down to 3 possible songs before eventually deciding on Home. The song, which has been composed by Inbar Vaizman and Ohad Shragai has been described as a "touching ballad" that will be "perfect for Kobi's voice". The song is expected to be

Israeli media have reported that around 200 songs have been submitted for Kobi Marimi to sing on home soil at Eurovision 2019. The submissions period was opened at the beginning of February and closed just yesterday. The song that Kobi will sing at Eurovision 2019 will be selected on March 10th by a jury, which is made up of: Aviad Zingboym, chairman of the jury Michal Asulin Naama Hadassi Tamira Yardeni Yoav Tzafir Yuval Ganor It has also been reported that two of the jury m

Earlier this year, Netta secured Israel's fourth victory at the Eurovision Song Contest with her song 'Toy' after it received a total of 529 points despite splitting audiences. Six months on and speaking exclusively with Gay Star News Netta has confirmed that she will "never, ever, ever" return to the international song competition. Speaking to the media outlet, when asked if she would ever make a bid to return to the contest similarly to Dana International, Lena, Alexander R

This year a record breaking 20 countries will be taking part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Minsk, Belarus on the 25th November 2018. With around three weeks to go until the competition, Eurovoxx will introduce you to each artist, and give a little insight to the country they will be representing. Who is Naom? Noam Dadon, from Yeruham in Israel, was born on June 20th, 2005. Noam has been singing from a young age, and has taken part in many festivals and c

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and official website eurovision.tv have formally announced that 42 countries are set to participate in next years Eurovision Song Contest. After winning this year with Netta and her song 'Toy', Israel will be the host country for Eurovision 2019 - with the international song contest schedule for May 14th through to May 18th 2019 in Tel Aviv. In an official statement, executive supervisor of the Eurovision Song Contest Jon Ola Sand - on be