Here from the Eurovision final in Liverpool in 2023. Photo: Jessica Gow/TT / TT Nyhetsbyrån / NTB
20-year-old Eden Golan from Tel Aviv won the selection in Israel and is thus the country’s Eurovision hope in Malmö.
Tuesday 6 February at 23:58
This is reported by the official ESC account X/Twitter Tuesday night.
– This year, more than ever, I am excited to represent my country on the biggest stage in Europe, says Eden about the victory.
That’s what the Eurovision Song Contest has written all over it websites.
– I promise to do my best and get Eurovision to Israel in 2025, she says and points out that the winning country gets to organize next year’s song competition.
Eden started out as a dancer, but when she was 9 years old she also started singing, they write.
Which song she will sing will only be known in the next few weeks.
Eden’s family moved from Israel to Russia when she was six years old, and back again to Israel in 2022, the newspaper writes The Jerusalem Post.
On Tuesday evening, she won the final in the Israeli selection competition “Ha Kochav Ha Ba”, or “the next star” in Norwegian.
In her last performance, she sang Aerosmith’s song “Don’t Want to Miss a Thing”
DEMAND EXCLUSION: On Wednesday 31 January, activists demonstrated against Israel’s participation outside NRK’s premises in Oslo. Photo: Fredrik Varfjell / NTB
The debate has raged around Israel’s participation in this year’s Eurovision. The background is the war in Gaza, where at least 27,000 people have been killed in Israeli attacks since the Hamas attack against Israel on 7 October.
The Eurovision organizer has said that it is out of the question to ban Israel from the competition, despite the fact that many have advocated this.
Among other things, Iceland has considered withdrawing from the ESC, in Norway there have been several demonstrations against participation and a number of artists have called for a boycott.
Something almost all the nine finalists in the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix final agree on.
The Eurovision final will take place on Saturday 11 May at the Malmö arena.