The 30 participants in the Israel national selection have been announced! The 3 heats will take place on 24th, 25th and 26th February, the second chance round on 3rd March and the final on 7th March!

 

Here are the participants of Kdam-Eurovision 2013. The list is made of former Kdam participants, well-known artists and songwriters along with many newcomers.

 

Note: Some of the songs have a Hebrew title and an English title, that could be a direct translation from Hebrew to English or totally different names. The original names are presented in this list.

 

Hila Ben David - Beautiful (m: Garry Gaz / l: Arc Garry Gazarc)

Julietta - Fantasia (m&l: Doron Medali)

Lihi Griner & DJ Omri Segal - Just like me (m: Kraziner Lev, Omri Segal / l: Kraziner Lev, Idan Roe)

Vladi Blayberg - New day (m: Noy Alooshe, Doron Plaskov, Sa'ar Badishi / l: Doron Plaskov, Sa'ar Badishi)

Eric Forman - Livin' one time (m: Itzik Kreif / l: Eric Forman)

Kathleen Reiter - Ad elay (m: Dor Daniel / l: Sahar Hagai, Patsricia Ori Cohen)

Hen Cohen - Halev mevakesh (m: Hen Cohen / l: Christina Yizhar)

Moran Mazuz - Give me a sign (m&l: Shuli Yosef)

Bezalel Raviv - No war (m: Eliayhu Siboni, Yotam Bekker / l: Bezalel Raviv)

Ortal Ofek - Tagid li lama (m&l: Ortal Ofek)

Aderet - Victory (m&l: Aderet)

Alon Jan - Live my life (m: Alon Jan, Baruch Fridland / l: Alon Jan, Einat Hollander)

Ran Sandler - Find a way (m&l: Doron Gal)

Love Is One (made of Ron Weinreich, Yoad Fekete, Ido Sagir, Yigal Cohen, Yuval Yaron & Elad Kimchi) - Love is one (m: Yoad Fekete / l: Ron Weinreich)

Liran Notik - Give me a sign (m&l: Liran Notik)

Jehoshua (Josh) Peretz - My baby (m: Sapir Amar / l: Jehoshua (Josh) Peretz)

Shani Zamir - Forever (m&l: Shani Zamir)

Hadar Ozeri - Ten ma'awal (m: Ronen Shaul Blonder / l: Ronen Shaul Blonder, Hadar Ozeri)

The Ultras - Happy birthday (m&l: Eli Peretz, Dan Bartov, Cedric Ben Shabat / prod. by Subliminal)

Yehuda Gavra - We're beautiful (m: Tomer Hadadi, / l: Yehuda Gavra)

Michael Harpaz - Michtav le'ima (m&l: Michael Harpaz)

Sarit Avitan - Mon amour (m: Sharona Pick / l: Mirit Shem Orr)

Haia Samir - Am I happy or am I sad (m&l: Haia Samir)

Adi Cezare - Pagia ve'shavir (m&l: Adi Cezare)

Meital de Razon - Toda la noche (m&l: Asi Tal, Meital de Razon)

Laila Malcos - Bo (m&l: Yoni Roe)

Adir Getz - Ha'ikar she'ani shar (m&l: Adir Getz)

Yarden Tzur - Replace you (m&l: Yarden Tzur)

Niki Goldstein - We are one (m&l: Niki Goldstein, Yaron Malachi)

Moran Mazor - Rak bishvilo (m: Hen Harari, l: Gal Sarig)

 

Read more here: http://www.esctoday.com/43278/israel-here-...urovision-2013/

Edited March 7, 201312 yr by Ryan.

 

Considering this is the only known name of the whole lot... I'd say it's safe for me to act like this is the entry :P It's very Shiri vs Aline imo <3

It's my favourite of the entries so far that I've listened to as well, lovely song so fingers crossed for her!

This is my favourite, absolutely stunning song. It made the final too so I have my fingers crossed.

 

 

There's something very mystifying about this song.

Edited March 3, 201312 yr by Sabrewulf

Did you hear that Kathleen has pulled out of the Israel national final. Apparently she heard judges were saying they weren't going to vote for her and accused them of favouritism.

 

http://12points.tv/all-news/item/1663-kdam...ayter-withdraws

 

To be honest I'm kinda happy because it means my favourite has more of a chance now....but I did like Kathleen's song.

Good job Israel... :/

Moran Mazor will be representing Israel with her song 'Rak bishvilo'! The studio version of the song is posted above, I'll post her performance from the final when it is uploaded to YouTube!

Edited March 7, 201312 yr by Ryan.

 

Won the televote, got a big fat 0 from the jury...

 

...I see Kathleen's point completely.

Forever would have been quite the fanthem! Oh well, this entry is very nice anyway and I guess the juries wanted to ensure that they sent something more 'respectable' but I'm still gutted that Kathleen pulled out!

Really happy to see my favourite win it.

 

Not concerned about Forever at all, it was an underwhelming performance and would probably have kept Israel in the semis for another year.

 

Also I believe Forever won the public vote by just 1%, not that convincing a victory. (Forever got 15% while Rak bishvilo and Toda La noche got 14% each.)

Edited March 7, 201312 yr by Sabrewulf

I really like what they have sent but then I listened to that performance of "Forever" straight after and now I'm sad. :(

Like the song or not... it remains fishy.

 

Moran Mazor 64+40=104 (1st)

Shany Zamir 0+44=44 (7th)

 

I'm sorry but even Nicki Goldstein got points from the jury... it's just corrupt as can be this stuff...

Edited March 7, 201312 yr by compil.

AMAZING song. I always love Israel though so no surprise here.

 

'Forever' is quite FANTASTIC, if not MORE fantastic, as well. Dubstep, sign language, that VOICE, catchy song. It had everything a Top 10 requires.

Here is the official video for 'Rak Bishvilo':

 

I much prefer this song live. And that's the only song I can say that about.

Such a shame this DNQ'd! :( I'm usually not a fan of Israel's entries but this had 'something' about it. I agree with Sabrewulf about it being quite mysterious. Especially when literally all the ballads that made it through are so basic in comparison to this. Mourning for this and 'Samo shampioni' </3

She really was SLAUGHTERED by that dress. Delivers a show-stopper of a vocal performance and all anyone's talking about is how OBSCENE her cleavage is. Talk about BARBARA DEX 101!

 

Not to mention that it's cut from much the same cloth as Milim, and that didn't qualify on the televote either, so she was probably screwed over by the voting changes. This type of ballad just doesn't seem to be to televoting tastes unfortunately.

Edited May 18, 201312 yr by Kanduälska

Also, we need to start focusing on how much this year REALLY NEEDED Toda la noche (which would've totes qualified as well). BAILAR CONMIGOOOOOOOOOOO

Milim was seriously dodgy live, though. I can't remember the singer's name but I remember it being quite shaky and a bit awkward to watch in parts. But I do agree that both are quite similar. Such a shame. :(

Milim WAS dodgy live, but that didn't really seem to stop him with the juries both times - or benefit him in the semi with televotes!

Edited May 18, 201312 yr by Kanduälska