I feel alive, the Israeli entry for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, will be officially presented tonight during a special program on IBA Channel 1. It will be sung by IMRI who won Rising Star for Eurovision 2017 earlier in February.

Following IMRI’s win in Rising Star for Eurovision 2017, a seven-member committee with representatives of IBA, Teddy Productions and IPBC was responsible for finding a suitable entry.

The official videoclip was shot in different locations during the last week and the result will be presented tonight.

The presentation

Tonight’s presentation is pre-recorded and will be aired at 20:00 CET (21:00 local time).

It will last for 20 minutes and we will get to watch interviews with Dolev Ram and Penn Hazut (songwriters/producers), Moshe Morad (head of the committee which chose the entry) and IMRI himself, before getting to hear I feel alive for the first time.

How to watch?

You can watch tonight’s presentation from 20:00 CET (21:00 local time) on the following:

Israel will compete at the second semi-final of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, hoping for a third consecutive qualification to the grand final.


Gil is 23 years old, grew up in Israel and lives in Sweden. He began following the Eurovision Song Contest at the age of five, when the contest was held in Jerusalem in 1999. Gil joined the ESCToday team in March 2008, shortly after co-hosting the Israeli national selection that year.