This year’s Israeli Eurovision act, Netta Barzilai, has released a video of herself singing the winning Israeli song from Eurovision 1978.

In the video, she strums a guitar and performs an acoustic version of the song.

Netta will represent Israel with the song Toy at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. She is performing in the seventh slot in semi-final 1 on Tuesday 8th May 2018.


Eleanor (or Ellie), is 26 years old, is from Exeter in the UK. She combines motherhood with studying linguistics. Ellie was first allowed to stay up and watch the Eurovision Song Contest aged 5 in 1999, but really fell in love with it after the Athens 2006 contest. Big key changes and dramatic stage shows are an absolute must! Ellie has also written an A* academic dissertation on the cultural history of Eurovision.