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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 .
Netta in the winning reprise of "Toy" On 8 May 2018, the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest was held at the Lisbon Arena in Lisbon hosted by Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) and broadcast live throughout the continent and abroad. Netta performed "Toy" seventh in a field of nineteen songs, and qualified for the grand final.
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.
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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 ...
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 Eurovision Song Contest 2018 was the 63rd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Lisbon , Portugal , following the country's victory at the 2017 contest with the song " Amar pelos dois " by Salvador Sobral .
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 ...