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KAN, the Israeli national broadcaster, has confirmed that Israel will be competing at the forthcoming 2027 \u00a0Eurovision Song Contest in Bulgaria.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thus\u00a0Israel joins the list of countries who have so far confirmed their presence at the upcoming 2027 \u00a0Eurovision edition.<\/p>\n
Israel will yet again select its Eurovision act via HaKokhav HaBa\u00a0 aka\u2019The Next Star.\u00a0 More details will be revealed in due time.<\/p>\n
KAN\u2019s official press release reads:<\/p>\n
The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation \u201cKan\u201d and Keshet 12 announced the continuation of their cooperation in selecting the Israeli representative for the competition to be held in Bulgaria. The decision was made after a series of successes in recent years and exceptionally high viewership figures.<\/p>\n
The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation \u201cKan\u201d and Keshet 12 will continue their collaboration to select Israel\u2019s representative for Eurovision 2027, which will be held in Bulgaria. This was announced this morning (Sunday) by the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation. The representative will be selected as part of the program \u201cThe Next Star for Eurovision\u201d by Keshet 12 and \u201cTeddy Productions\u201d, which is expected to air this fall.<\/p>\n
The decision to continue with this model came against the backdrop of Israel\u2019s significant achievements in the competition in recent years: Noam Baten\u2019s second place in Eurovision 2026 in Austria, Yuval Rafael\u2019s second place (and first place in the audience vote) in 2025, and Eden Golan\u2019s fifth place in Sweden in 2024. \u201cKan\u201d noted that the cooperation, in which Keshet bears a significant portion of the delegation\u2019s expenses, allows for significant budget savings and the channeling of resources to create original Israeli content within the corporation.<\/p>\n
The process of selecting the Israeli song will continue to be carried out according to the procedures introduced for Eurovision 2026, with the aim of ensuring equal opportunities. To prevent early identification of creators, the songs will be submitted to the professional committee without the creator\u2019s voice, with the possibility of using AI technology to record the vocals in demo versions. The committee, which will be composed of professionals from \u201cKan\u201d and a representative from Keshet, will filter approximately 40 songs in the first stage, from which the winning song will be selected.<\/p>\n
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Israel at Eurovision<\/p>\n
Israel debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1973 and has won the competition four times ( 1978, 1979, 1998, 2018). The country has hosted the event thrice: twice in Jerusalem ( 1979, 1999) and once in Tel Aviv (2019). Israel has partaken 48 times in the competition.<\/p>\n
In 2026 Noam Bettan represented Israel with his Eurovision entry \u2018Michelle\u2019 achieving a second place in the Grand Final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KAN, the Israeli national broadcaster, has confirmed that Israel will be competing at the forthcoming 2027 \u00a0Eurovision…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[26026,59500,37,3740],"class_list":["post-202504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-eurovision","tag-eurovision-2027","tag-israel","tag-kan"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116906648089972670","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}