Samira Efendi, as her full name is, was supposed to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest last year. She was singing about a strong woman, “Cleopatra”. The song she sings this year is an extension of the subject. It is about the Dutch master spy Mata Hari. Someone has sung a song about her before. In 1976 Anne Karine Strøm did. She received an honorary medal from the municipality of Leeuwarden, where Mata Hari came from. Efendi has heard nothing so far from the municipality of Leeuwarden, but who knows, maybe it will come.
Eurovision 2025
Yuval Raphael will represent Israel
Yuval Raphael will represent Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, Switzerland. She was chosen through the national selection Hakokhav Haba. The song Yuval will sing will be written especially for her and presented later. These are the participants in the first round: Red Band & Moran Aharoni Valerie Hamaty Yuval Raphael Daniel Weiss Daniel Weiss was eleminated after this round by the televoters. In the second round, these were the results: Yuval Raphael, 157 pts Valerie Hamaty, 111 pts Red Band & Moran Aharoni, 92 pts Share