National final season starts with Israel

Tonight is the night national final season really starts. Israel is the country that kicks off!

The past years, Ha’kokhav haba L’Eurovizion was the national final. It even brought Israel a victory with Netta. But now, things have changed: The X-Factor Israel will be the contest. The first show will be transmitted tonight at 20:30 CET and you can watch it here.

Netta, winner in 2018, photo credits: Eurovisionary

A journey through singing Israel will bring us four finalists in the end. One of them will get the ticket to Turin as the successor of Eden Alene. But tonight, we will see auditions first. The jury exists of Aviv Geffen, Miri Mesika, Ran Danker, Margol and…. Eurovision winner Netta!!

Eden Alene, photo credits: EBU

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