Noam Bettan has released \u201cMichelle\u201d, the Israeli entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in Vienna.<\/p>\n
\u201cMichelle\u201d was revealed during a special broadcast this evening on KAN 11, KAN Gimel and KAN Box called \u201cHaShir shel Israel\u201d (Israel\u2019s Song). The show was broadcast from the Neve Ilan Communication Centre.<\/p>\n
\u201cMichelle\u201d was written and composed by Nadav Aharoni, Tzlil Klifi, Yuval Raphael and Noam Bettan. Yuval represented Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. The song was selected by a professional committee from approximately 200 submissions.<\/p>\n
Noam Bettan was selected to represent Israel at Eurovision 2026 after winning HaKokhav HaBa l\u2019Eurovizyon earlier this year. He will perform in the second half of the first semi-final on May 12.<\/p>\n
Since the beginning of the Gaza War in 2023, Israel\u2019s participation in Eurovision has come under heavy criticism.\u00a0Iceland<\/a>,\u00a0Ireland<\/a>,\u00a0the Netherlands<\/a>,\u00a0Slovenia<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Spain<\/a>\u00a0are all boycotting this year\u2019s contest over Israel\u2019s inclusion, marking the largest boycott in the contest\u2019s history since 1970.<\/p>\n Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest+<\/p>\n Israel debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1973. The country was represented by Ilanit, who finished in 4th place with the song \u201cEy Sham\u201d. Their first victory came in 1978 with Izhar Cohen and the Alphabeta. Israel won again the following year with Gali Atari & Milk and Honey. Israel\u2019s third victory came in 1998 when Dana International performed \u201cDiva\u201d in Birmingham, beating Malta to victory in a tense voting sequence. Israel struggled in the contest during the early-2010s, failing to qualify for the final from 2011-2014. However, since 2015 Israel has seen its fortunes turned around, qualifying every year except 2022. In 2018 Netta won the Eurovision Song Contest with the song \u201cToy\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noam Bettan has released \u201cMichelle\u201d, the Israeli entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in Vienna. \u201cMichelle\u201d was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,33958,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-459810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-headline","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}