Israel will be represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025, which will be held in Basel, Switzerland. The Israeli participating broadcaster, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (IPBC/Kan), selected its representative through the show HaKokhav HaBa (Rising Star), in collaboration with commercial broadcaster Keshet and Tedy Productions, while the song will be internally selected. The selected artist was Yuval Raphael.
As part of its duties as a participating broadcaster, Kan selects an entry to represent Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. Kan confirmed its intention to participate in the 2025 contest on 31 May 2024,[2] announcing on 23 July that its representative would continue to be selected through the reality singing competition HaKokhav HaBa (Rising Star).[3]
Preliminary casting rounds began in late July 2024 and ended in early October. Qualifiers from the preliminary casting phase proceeded to the auditions proper, which began filming on 10 October.[4][7]
Auditions
Candidates were required to get a score of at least 70% of the votes from the judges and the studio audience in order to advance.
From the 66 advanced candidates, the judges picked 21 to proceed in a non-televised shortlisting round. Those candidates were: Kler, Yuval Raphael, Ori Saban, Ido Malka, Natalie Zafar, Renana Boaziza, Daniel Wais, Yuval Gold, Udi Schneider, Amit Sade, Alma Maimon de Razon, Dolev Mendelbaum, Valerie Hamaty, Hamsa, Nati Livian, Itay Paz, Perfylove Mongoza, Aviad Klein, Ilay Avidani, Shira Knopp, and Red Band and Moran Aharoni.[23]
Top 21 round
In the top 21 round, the votes of the judges and an audience determine one or two contestants to be eliminated from each show. In each of the first three shows, the artist to be eliminated was the one getting the lowest overall score. In the fourth and fifth shows, the artists were coupled to perform duets, with the eliminee selected between the lowest scoring duo in the fifth show. In the sixth, seventh, fifteenth and sixteenth shows, the artists were paired in duels, with the winners directly qualifying to the next round; the judges then selected one or two eliminee per show among the others. In the eighth, ninth and tenth shows, each contestant performed a duet with a surprise guest artist. The lowest scoring contestant across both the eleventh and twelfth shows combined was eliminated. In the thirteenth and fourteenth shows, the judges decided which of the bottom two scoring contestants to be eliminated.
In the quarterfinal, which featured Rita as a guest act and had the contestants performing her songs, the artists were paired in duels with the winners directly qualifying to the next round; the judges then determined which contestant to eliminate from the losers of each duel.
In the semi-final, the votes of the judges and the audience determined a qualifier to the final. Afterwards, the scores were reset and an additional round took place, in which the judges individually awarded 12, 10, 8, and 7 points for the remaining four acts. The three acts that received the highest accumulated score from the judges and the studio audience proceeded to the final.
The final was held on 22 January 2025[40] and was divided into a first round, eliminating one finalist, and a superfinal among the remaining three artists, determining the winner. On 21 January, a special broadcast was aired featuring performances by guest artists and the finalists, each of whom announced which song they would perform in the first round of the final. A public vote, held via the Mako and Kan apps and determining 30% of the results of the first round, was opened after the performances in the first round of the final.[41] In the superfinal, a 50/50 combination of jury and public votes selected Yuval Raphael as the winner.[42]
The song that Yuval Raphael will perform in the contest will be internally selected by a professional committee. On 30 December 2024, Kan and Keshet opened a window for specially selected songwriters to submit their entries until 2 February 2025; submissions are required to include at least two lines of lyric in Hebrew.[43][44] Raphael will also have the option to submit her own entry.[45] Over 50 submissions were received at the closing of the deadline. The selected song is scheduled to be presented to the public on 9 March 2025.[46]
↑ Zaikaner, Avi (31 May 2024). "ישראל מאשרת השתתפות באירוויזיון 2025"[Israel confirms participation in Eurovision 2025]. EuroMix (in Hebrew). Retrieved 11 November 2024.
↑ Jersey, Ofek (8 January 2025). "נציג ישראל לאירוויזיון 2025 ייבחר ב-22 בינואר!"[Israel's representative for Eurovision 2025 will be chosen on January 22!]. EuroMix (in Hebrew). Retrieved 8 January 2025.
↑ "תקנון בחירת שיר אירוויזיון 2025"[Regulations for the song selection for Eurovision 2025](PDF) (in Hebrew). Kan. 30 December 2024. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
Note: Entries scored out signify where Israel did not compete. Italics indicate an entry in a future contest.
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