Israel has decided! Yuval Raphael will be flying the Israeli colours at the forthcoming Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel.

Yuval Raphael was crowned the winner of the Next Star Israel and will have the grand honour of representing Israel at Eurovision 2025.

Yuval is honoured to represent Israel in Basel:

I can’t explain how excited and ready I am!! Thank you for giving me this huge honour and trusting me to represent my country on the grand Eurovision stage in Switzerland

Her Eurovision entry will be premiered in the coming weeks.

Israel debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1973 and has won the contest 4 times (1978, 1979, 1998, 2018).

Source: Eurovision.tv
Photo credit: Sagi Klein


Sanjay (Sergio) joined esctoday.com in December 2006 as an editor. He was appointed as the Head of Press of ESCToday.com in 2011. Hereafter in 2016 he was promoted as the Head of International Relations & Communications at ESCToday. Sergio has covered the Eurovision Song Contest live 22 times since 2000, having worked for several international magazines and media outlets.