KAN, the Israeli national broadcaster, has confirmed to ESCToday that Israel will be competing at the forthcoming 2026 Eurovision Song Contest in Austria.
Thus Israel joins the list of countries who have so far confirmed their presence at the upcoming 2026 Eurovision edition.
KAN is yet to determine the mechanism it will use to determine the 2026 Israeli Eurovision entry and act. It is more than likely that Israel will yet again select its Eurovision act via HaKokhav HaBa aka’The Next Star. More details will be revealed in due time.
Israel at Eurovision
Israel debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1973 and has won the competition four times ( 1978, 1979, 1998, 2018). The country has hosted the event thrice: twice in Jerusalem ( 1979, 1999) and once in Tel Aviv (2019). Israel has partaken 47 times in the competition.
In 2025 Yuval Raphael represented Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest in Basel with her entry ‘New Day Rise’ achieving an honourable 2nd place in Grand Final.
