Israel’s broadcaster (KAN) has announced that it will reveal the country’s entrant for Minsk on Thursday September 6th.
Selection to take place in Ramat Gan
As we reported last week, KAN was looking for singers aged 9 to 14 to submit their names if interested in representing the country in Minsk. Recently, they revealed more details of their selection which will take place next September 6th. Although it is still unclear whether the selection will be televised or performed for an internal audience, Roni an Dalumi and Yaron Brovinsky will host the show at the Rishon Le’Zion Auditorium in Ramat Gan. Furthermore, the show will feature a special guest performance by Israeli music superstar Hanan Ben Ari.
Israel at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Israel has a rather short history at Junior Eurovision. In fact, they only appeared at the contest twice, in 2012 in Amsterdam and 2016 in Malta. So far, their best result is the 8th place with 68 points achieved in 2012 by Kids.il while 2016’s entrants Shir& Tim placed 15th with 27 points. You can read about Israel’s Junior Eurovision journey in our feature here.
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018
Belarus’s capital Minsk will be the host of the 2018 edition of Junior Eurovision. This is the second time the event takes place in the city, who previously hosted it in 2010. A record-breaking 20 countries will participate in Minsk on November 25 and they are:
- Albania
- Armenia
- Australia
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- France
- FYR Macedonia
- Georgia
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Kazakhstan
- Malta
- Poland
- Portugal
- Russia
- Serbia
- The Netherlands
- Ukraine
- Wales (S4C)
Wales and Kazakhstan will both make a debut with Kazakhstan participating for the first time to any Eurovision related event. Furthermore, the contest will also feature three returning countries: France, that last participated in 2004, Azerbaijan that last participated in 2013 and Israel that last participated in 2016. Unfortunately, Cyprus instead confirmed its withdrawal from the competition.
Are you looking forward to Junior Eurovision 2018? What kind of song are you hoping Israel will choose? Will they be the first country to win both the adult and junior version of Eurovision?
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well, it is too early to say who would win the JESC this year – we only know 3 singer (Russia, Georgia and Macedonia) and only the song from Russia is known – but if Kazakhstan choose Daneliya Tuleshova to represent the country with a good song they have a great chance to get into the top 5 (I would say). Belarus and Ukraine are strong too (what I\’ve seen on YouTube so far).
May the best act win. I hope for France, Ireland and Wales doing good.