Israel debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1973 and has won the competition four times (1978, 1979, 1998, 2018) and has hosted the event thrice (Jerusalem 1979, 1999 and Tel Aviv 201).
Yuval Raphael, a survivor of Hamas’s October 7 massacre at the Nova Music Festival, was selected to represent Israel at the 69th Eurovision song contest, which begins on May 13, and to take place in ...