Reshet 13 have revealed that The X Factor will commence during the first week of October, although the exact date has still to be revealed. While The X Factor will select the Israeli participant for the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest, it is likely that KAN, the Israeli national […]
#BIRTHDAY: Tal Sondak from Israel is 45 today Several countries in our favourite TV show don’t actually lie in Europe proper. That’s the beauty of Eurovision – we have Europeans and Mediterraneans (and some others too) all as one big happy family. Our friends in Israel are not […]
#BIRTHDAY: Mira Awad from Israel is 46 today Our favourite TV show always has noble aims, whether it’s to find something that all/most Europeans like, or just to bring people together in a way that politicians can’t. We should celebrate that fact we’re all in this together. Whatever […]
Tonight, the First Semi Final of the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest will be taking place, live from Rotterdam. Eurovision Ireland are aware that you will want to discuss your potential qualifiers and all the performances across Social Media, so here are the hashtags you will need: Lithuania – […]
#ESC2021: Live Blog of the the first Jury Semi-Final – 20.00 BST/21.00 CET The serious stuff is starting. Tonight is that part of the week then the international juries start to pick their favourites. The televoters get their go on Tuesday night. Join Us as we blog all […]
#BIRTHDAY: Shiri Maimon from Israel is 40 today It’s good that many different genres of music make it to our favourite TV show. Could you imagine if all we got was, for example, Schlager? Schlager Schlager Schlager all the way. How dull. So it’s good the old ballad […]
With only a matter of days to go before the First Semi Final, we thought we’d have a look back at the second rehearsals of the participating countries. Would you like a reminder of what we thought? Have a look back at our #LiveBlogs from their first and […]
#ESC2021: Eurovision Ireland scores… Day Five The Eurovision Ireland team today saw a massive fifteen countries rehearse. We gave what we saw our considered opinion, and awarded our favourites of the day the usual scores of 12 down to one. This means a top score of 60. What […]
#ESC 2021: Day Two Rehearsals Blog from 10.00 CET After the best part of two years, we finally get a proper rehearsal of performances for a Eurovision Song Contest! Yes, at 09.00 BST/10.00 CET we kick off with the first songs from the First Semi-Final. REMEMBER: This year […]
#ESC2021: Eurovision Ireland reviewed… Over several weeks, we at Eurovision Ireland reviewed the 39 songs participating in the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. If you’ve not watched our shows, you can click on the links below. We would like to thank our guest reviewers, amongst them Big Daddy Karsten […]
#ESC2021: Eurovision Ireland reviews… Part III: The East We’re getting closer to the contest in Rotterdam. Are you excited? We at Eurovision Ireland most definitely are. As a way to keep us occupied, we’re reviewing the 39 songs over seven panel reviews. This is our third one, which […]
Over the course of April and May, on the lead up to the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, we will be celebrating the countries that are participating this year in Rotterdam. Today, we celebrate Israel. Israel debuted at the Contest in 1973, in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. Ilanit finished in […]
Today the Israeli broadcaster KAN revealed their entry for Eurovision 2021! Rather than a televised show with different artists, this year HaShir Shelanu L’Eurovizion was held mostly online with 9 songs sung by Eden Alene – who was chosen internally by KAN to compete after she won the […]
This week see’s the third of the week-in, week-out National Final marathon season! This week has four shows, as well as song and artist announcements… Monday 25th January Israel – HaShir Shelanu L’Eurovizion (19:15 GMT/20:15 CET) Norway – Semi Final 2 Songs & Artists Announcement (11:30 GMT/12:30 CET […]
Good evening Europe, this is Israel calling! We’re barely into 2021, but for many countries the national selection season is already well underway in preparation for the contest in May. One such country is Israel, who confirmed some time ago that Eden Alene would represent them again after […]