#BIRTHDAY: Dana International from Israel is 54 today There have been around 50 soloist winners of our favourite TV show, so that averages out at about one winner per week. Luckily, we have a solo winner today. But who? It’s a winner from the 20th Century, who set […]
KAN, the Israeli national broadcaster, has announced their song to be performed at the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, in Liverpool. Noa Kirel will be performing “Unicorn” in Liverpool. “Unicorn” was written by Doron Medalie, May Sfadia, Yinon Yahel and Noa Kirel. “Unicorn” will be revealed around March, during […]
#BIRTHDAY: Shlomo Artzi from Israel is 73 today If you’re a new viewer to our favourite TV show, you might not know today’s song, as it doesn’t even come from this century. There were some crackers in the 20th Century, so we’ll leave it to you to decide […]
#BIRTHDAY: Lior Narkis from Israel is 46 today Have you always been able to spot where an act’s from, without hearing them sing, but just by looking at their stage act? It is said that every nation has a certain ‘tell’, and they could be right. Our friends […]
#BIRTHDAY: Kobi Marimi from Israel is 31 today Not so long ago, there had never been any Eurovision singers’ birthday of note (that we knew of) on this date, and then two came along at once. We celebrated one last year, so it’s the other one’s turn. Today’s […]
#BIRTHDAY: David D’Or from Israel is 57 today There’s a song that contains the lyric “On a cloudy day”. It almost invites three dots after it, where you can fill in your own conclusion. On a cloudy day… you can see Carola’s wind machine. For example. Actually, today’s […]
It’s back! After our break to cover the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, Eurovision Ireland is returning to its search for your all time favourite entries from countries across the continent, spanning the contest’s entire back catalogue – which as of 2022, is now over 1600 songs! We started […]
#BIRTHDAY: Sarit Hadad from Israel is 44 today For some, Eurovision is just a sideshow. These performers are already massive stars, and they take the Golden Ticket to burnish their credentials as the best when they might not need to. Cue today’s birthday girl שרית חדד/Sarit Hadad (née […]
#OBITUARY: Tzvika Pick Israeli singer-songwriter Tzvika Pick has died at the age of 72. Among his many achievements, he wrote a Eurovision winner. Tzvika was born in Wrocław in 1949 as Henryk Pick, emigrating to Israel in 1957. In the 1970s, he was one of Israel’s top pop […]
IPBC, the Israeli national broadcaster, have chosen their representative for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. Noa Kirel has been internally chosen by a ten person committee to represent Israel. The committee was presented with a list of 78 artists, who had appeared on the Gimel & Galgalatz airplay […]
KAN, the Israeli national broadcaster, have revealed their 2023 Eurovision Song Contest Act will be chosen internally. KAN revealed this on their Twitter feed yesterday. Let us know what you think about the Israel at the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest – either in the comments below or on […]
It’s always one of our most read articles of the year! You loved it when we covered this in 2018, 2019, and 2021, so it’s time to crunch the numbers again for 2022! With the semi finals done for another year, it’s time to check in and see whose qualification […]
Tonight all the fun of the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 continues with the Second Semi Final, coming to the world live from breath-taking Turin, Italy at 21:00PM CET (make sure you check your local listings to find out where you can watch!) With only 10 spots left in the final, […]
Buona Sera Europa , Buongiorno Australia! After all the excitement of last night’s First Semi Final, the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 continues with the Jury Show for Semi Final 2! Tonight at Turin’s PalaOlimpico, the 18 countries taking part in the 2nd Semi Final will perform their entries […]
As much as we love the Eurovision Song Contest, there is something in the old adage that some things just don’t translate very well. In a musical coming together of different countries and cultures, what sounds poetic and elegant in one language might not quite have the same […]