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<\/a>Israel Selects Noam Bettan to Compete in 2026 Eurovision Song Contest<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nShiryn Ghermezian<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Noam Bettan will represent Israel in the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria, in May, after winning the Israeli singing competition \u201cHakochav Haba\u201d (\u201cThe Next Star\u201d) this week.<\/span><\/p>\n This year will mark the first time since 2022 that Israel will be sending a male contestant to the Eurovision contest. For the last few years, Israel has been represented in the Eurovision competition by women: Yuval Raphael in 2025, Eden Golan in 2024, and Noa Kirel in 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n Bettan will participate in the first semifinal<\/a> of the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna on May 12. There will be a second semifinal on May 14 and based on the results of the audience and jury vote, the top 10 countries from both semifinals will advance to compete in the grand final on May 16.<\/span><\/p>\n Bettan, 27, was raised in Ra\u2019anana, Israel, to French parents who immigrated to Israel with their two older sons. Bettan, who was also born in Israel, is fluent in French. He released his debut album in 2023, \u201cAbove the Water,\u201d and a number of his songs have become hit singles in Israel including \u201cMadame,\u201d which he used as his audition song for \u201cNext Star\u201d this year. He has performed across Israel with his band. In 2018, he competed on the Israeli singing talent show \u201cAviv or Eyal,\u201d where he finished in third place.<\/span><\/p>\n The finale of this year\u2019s \u201cRising Star\u201d aired on Israeli television on Tuesday night and the four finalists included Bettan, Gal De Paz, Shira Zloof, and Alona Erez. In the final they performed covers of songs, with Bettan performing a Hebrew track, before the top three advanced to the superfinal, where Bettan performed a rendition of the French song \u201cDerni\u00e8re danse.\u201d The song that Bettan will sing in the 2026 Eurovision will be selected internally by a committee convened by Israel\u2019s public broadcaster Kan, which organizes Israel\u2019s participation in the Eurovision. The song is expected to be announced in March.<\/span><\/p>\n Bettan previously auditioned for \u201cNext Star\u201d as a teenager, but failed to make it on to the show. After being crowned the winner on Tuesday night, he thanked the Israeli public for selecting him to represent his country in the Eurovision.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI will give it my all, I\u2019ll do everything I can to represent our country. It\u2019s such a huge f\u2013king privilege,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n Israel has participated in the Eurovision 46 times and won the contest four times, most recently in 2018 with Netta Barzilai and her song \u201cToy,\u201d which gave Israel the opportunity to host the contest in Tel Aviv in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n In December, members of the European Broadcasting Union, which organizes the Eurovision, voted<\/a> that Israel will be allowed to compete in the contest this year despite demands from several countries to ban the Jewish state because of its military actions in the Gaza Strip during the Israel-Hamas war. Following the EBU\u2019s announcement, Spain, Ireland, Iceland, the Netherlands, and Slovenia announced their decision to pull out of this year\u2019s Eurovision in protest. Other countries<\/a> are facing increasing pressure to withdraw from the song contest because of Israel\u2019s involvement, and two past Eurovision winners have returned their trophies<\/a> to the EBU in protest of Israel\u2019s participation this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em> Israel Selects Noam Bettan to Compete in 2026 Eurovision Song Contest Shiryn Ghermezian Noam Bettan, Israel\u2019s representative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2026, poses in this undated handout photo. Photo: Courtesy of Kan, Timor Elmalach\/Handout via REUTERS Noam Bettan will represent Israel in the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria, in May, after winning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[33,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127648"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127800,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127648\/revisions\/127800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Noam Bettan, Israel\u2019s representative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2026, poses in this undated handout photo. Photo: Courtesy of Kan, Timor Elmalach\/Handout via REUTERS<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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