Israel has confirmed its participation at Eurovision 2025.
The national broadcaster Kan shared more details regarding the selection process.
As in 2024, Kan will collaborate with Keshet12 (one of the commercial channels in Israel) to choose the artist for Eurovision 2025.
The selection will be made through “Hakohav Haba La’Eurovision”. The new season will air around the end of October – November 2024.
Kan released the following statement:
We have collaborated with Keshet 12 (via “The Rising Star”) for 8 successful years. In each occasion, Israel managed to qualify for the final and even take the trophy.
Among other things, this will allow “Kan” to save on the heavy costs involved in preparing for the competition: Securing and traveling the delegation, creating the music video and funding the performance on stage, a cost that the corporation is asking to invest in new and original quality content.
Israel has selected an artist for Eurovision via the music reality show “Hakohav Haba” during the years 2015-2020.
Among the chosen artists, we can find:
- Nadav Guedj (Eurovision 2015) – 9th place in the final
- Hovi Star (Eurovision 2016) – 14th place in the final
- Imri Ziv (Eurovision 2017) – 23rd place in the final
- Netta Barzilai (Eurovision 2018) – winner
- Kobi Marimi (Eurovision 2019) – 23rd place in the final
- Eden Alene (selected in 2020, and therefore was internally selected for Eurovision 2021) – 17th place in the final (2021)
- Eden Golan (Eurovision 2024) – 5th place in the final
Regarding the selection of the song, we will still have to wait.
In most of the cases, Israel opened a submission window for song shortly after the grand final of “Hakohav Haba“.
The only different case was in 2016, where the list of songs became known just before the final.
Eden Golan represented Israel at Eurovision 2024 with the song “Hurricane”.
She finished in 5th place with 375 points
Eurovision 2025 will be held in Switzerland.
