IBA, the Israeli broadcasting Association has announced that this year’s entry will not be selected using the familiar Kdam format. A special committee will internally select an artist who will present 3 songs during a special televised song selection, a private Kdam. The committee will consist of music professionals, IBA representatives and it will be supervised by a court judge …

Back in 1995, Liora represented Israel with the beautiful song “Amen”, a song that was composed by Moshe Datz who was a part of Duo Datz  (Israel 1991). Liora placed 8th that year, receiving 81 points. ESCUNITED caught up with Liora to discuss her Eurovision adventure and her interesting journey since. Here is what she shared with us. Looking back …

Ding Dong: Eurovision’s Diva, Dana International is in advanced stages of developing a new reality show for the Israeli music channel, channel 24. The new reality show, which is scheduled to be broadcasted in February 2014, will focus on Dana travelling through Israel in attempt to form the a new Israeli pop girl band. The female contestants who will impress …

Every year our “Expert” Panel comes together to judge all entries for the Eurovision Song Contest and they’re back to take apart the 2013 entries and rank them accordingly. While their characters and comments may be wacky, the scores are dead serious. All 13 panelists will comment on the song and rank them accordingly giving it points using a scale …

The National Final in Israel has just concluded and the televoters and juries decided that Moran Mazor should fly the flag for Israel in Malmo with the song Rak bishvilo. The ESC United readers once again should be really happy as their favorite per our Poll HERE won it all.   [vsw id=”y8YNSQqY_AE” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”]   What are …

The ESC United readers were once again able to vote for their favorite NF song, this time for Israel and Kathleen Reiter won the poll with her song “ad elay”. 26% of the voters favored her over the competition but in a last minute update, the singer decided to withdraw from Kdam, therefore is no longer in the running. Now …

The Final in Israel is only a few days away and it’s time to find out who you think should win the privilege to fly the Israeli flag in Malmo.Ten songs are still in the running but only one can win the golden ticket. Please vote in the poll for your favorite(s), keep in mind you can vote for more …

Three more acts qualified from the Third Semi Final show Kdam 2013 in Israel. We now have nine finalists. In addition, one song from the Second Chance Round will bring the number of Finalists to 10. Let’s find out who tonight’s lucky three are:   Hila Ben David – Beautiful [vsw id=”GFrj2qiAaCc” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”] Meital De Razon & Asi …

Three more acts qualified from the Second Semi Final show Kdam 2013 in Israel. We now have six finalists with three more joining the lucky group of Finalists from the third Semi which will take place tonight. In addition, one song from the Second Chance Round will bring the number of Finalists to 10.   Tonight’s qualifiers are:   Ran …

The first Semi Final in Israel took place tonight and three songs qualified for the Final Show on March 7th. Let’s find out who they are:   Shany Zamir  – Forever [vsw id=”l2c1_n92na4″ source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”]  Ron Weinreich – Love is one [vsw id=”YMM9NZ1oRBI” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”] Kathleen Reiter – Back to me [vsw id=”w9ia1OiFmxw” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”] Judah Gavra   will …