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On 12 May 2018, Netta performed again "Toy" twenty-second in a field of twenty-six in the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest. At the close of voting, the song placed first winning the contest, based on third placing with 212 points from the jury and winning the televote with 317 points, achieving overall first place with a combined ...
Netta Barzilai (Hebrew: נטע ברזילי; born 22 January 1993), also known mononymously as Netta, is an Israeli singer.After winning the fifth season of HaKokhav HaBa, she earned the right to represent her country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018.
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.
Last year's winner of The Next Star, Eden Golan, represented Israel at Eurovision with Hurricane, which came fifth in the competition. The show previously selected Netta, who won Eurovision in ...
The winner was Israel with the song "Toy", performed by Netta and written by Doron Medalie and Stav Beger. Cyprus , Austria , Germany , and Italy rounded out the top five, with Cyprus achieving its best result to date.
The 1980 winning song "Pizmon Chozer" by The Brothers & the Sisters never had an opportunity to compete. In 1984, Israel again refrained from participating due to the same date conflict. It was rumoured that Ilanit and the song "Balalaika" would have been its representative that year, but this was denied by Shlomo Zach, the producer of the song.
Eleven Eurovision winners (alongside three non-winners) were featured at the special concert Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005, in which ABBA's "Waterloo" was voted the most popular song of the contest's first fifty years. [85] Ireland and Sweden have won seven times, more than any other country. Ireland also won ...
The winner was Eden Alene, and a separate televised competition was held by Kan to select her Eurovision Song Contest 2020 entry, "Feker Libi". However, that year's Eurovision was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic , and Alene was internally re-selected by Kan to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 , with another competition held to ...