It’s time for a weekly update! A little over a week has passed since Austria won the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with JJ’s “Wasted Love.” As the celebrations fade, Europe turns its eyes toward Eurovision 2026. Plenty is already happening: Austria is preparing to host, broadcasters question the voting, Israel’s
📷 Eric Salard, Wikimedia Commons What the hell just happened? It is not only a song title. It’s also the question we ask ourselves often while Céline Dion’s Possible Return to the Eurovision Stage One of the most talked-about possibilities for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel is an
Odds, opinions and social media; that is what we talk about these days. The last seven participants of the second semifinal have their second rehearsal. We have no liveblog from EBU, however we are expecting 30 seconds videos later today. We also have pictures. 🇬🇪 Georgia Georgian representative Mariam Shengelia
📷 Miika Varila This afternoon we saw Basel Bulletin: a doll, fog, flames and a microphone. Today we continue with the next 4 rehearsals. We tell you everything about the last part of the second semifinal. EBU has decided to release photo’s of it only the day after. But still
📷 EBU/Corinne Cumming About Quick Facts NameYuval Raphael Born5 November 2000 Nationality🇮🇱 Israeli National SelectionHaKokhav Haba 2025 In Eurovision2025 Basel SongNew Day Will Rise (2025) Biography Yuval Raphael (born November 5, 2000) is an Israeli singer, performer, and a symbol of resilience. Best known as the winner of the 11th
Yuval Raphael will represent Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, Switzerland. She was chosen through the national selection Hakokhav Haba. The song Yuval will sing will be written especially for her and presented later. These are the participants in the first round: Red Band & Moran Aharoni Valerie
Tonight Israel will select an artist. As in many other years, HaKokhav HaBa will be the national final. After 15 shows, a quarter final and two semifinals, the moment is there. Four contestants will go into the arena. Three of them will be selected by televoters to head to a
About Quick Facts NameMira Anwar Awad Born11 June 1975 Nationality🇮🇱 Israeli National SelectionKdam 2009Kdam 2005 In Eurovision2009 Moscow SongThere must be another way (& Noa) Biography Mira Anwar Awad is an Arab-Israeli singer, actress, TV host, composer, songwriter, and political activist. BiographyMira Awad was born on June 11, 1975, and
About Quick Facts NameAchinoam Nini Born23 June 1969 Nationality🇮🇱 Israeli National SelectionKdam Eurovision 2009 In Eurovision2009 Moscow SongThere must be another way (& Mira Awad, 2009) Biography Achinoam Nini (born June 23, 1969), also known as Noa, is an Israeli singer, composer, and left-wing activist. Biography Achinoam Nini was born
Last week was the final of the Eurovision Song Contest. It looks like this 68th edition will go down as one of the most controversial to date.What has happened, and what is still happening? Eurovision 2024: Facts and rumours: Participation Israel Fact Friction already starts to arise in February