Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017
| Eurovision Song Contest 2017 | ||||
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 Israel
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| National selection | ||||
| Selection process |
Artist: HaKokhav HaBa L'Eurovizion Song: Internal Selection |
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| Selection date(s) |
Artist: 13 February 2017 Song: 13 March 2017 |
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| Selected entrant | Imri Ziv | |||
| Selected song | "I Feel Alive" | |||
| Selected songwriter(s) | Dolev Ram Penn Hazut |
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| Finals performance | ||||
| Semi-final result | Qualified 3rd, 207 points | |||
| Final result | 23rd, 39 points | |||
| Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest | ||||
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Israel participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "I Feel Alive" written by Dolev Ram and Penn Hazut. The song is performed by Imri Ziv. Israeli broadcaster Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) collaborated with the commercial broadcaster Keshet and Tedy Productions which organised the reality singing competition HaKokhav HaBa L'Eurovizion ("The Next Star For Eurovision") to select the singer, while the song was chosen by a committee of the Israeli broadcaster. Imri Ziv won the Israeli national selection and his song for the contest, "I Feel Alive", was internally selected and presented to the public on 13 March 2017.
Israel was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 11 May 2017. Performing as the closing entry during the show in position 18, "I Feel Alive" was announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and therefore qualified to compete in the final on 13 May.
Prior to the 2017 Contest, Israel had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest thirty-nine times since its first entry in 1973. Israel has won the contest on three occasions: in 1978 with the song "A-Ba-Ni-Bi" performed by Izhar Cohen and the Alphabeta, in 1979 with the song "Hallelujah" performed by Milk and Honey and in 1998 with the song "Diva" performed by Dana International. Since the introduction of semi-finals to the format of the Eurovision Song Contest in 2004, Israel has, to this point, managed to qualify to the final six times, including three top ten results in 2005 with Shiri Maimon and "Hasheket Shenish'ar" placing fourth, in 2008 with Boaz and "The Fire In Your Eyes" placing ninth, and in 2015 with Nadav Guedj and "Golden Boy" placing ninth. Israel had failed to qualify to the final for four consecutive years between 2011 and 2014 prior to their qualification in 2015. In 2016, Hovi Star represented Israel in , Sweden with the song "Made of Stars". It ended 14th out of 26 entries in the final.
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