ISRAEL: Noa looks at Israel's Eurovision Selection

After last year  and the big success of Nadav Guedj with the song Golden Boy (finished 9th place) , Israel stayed with the format of "Rising Star To Eurovision " to choose an act for the Eurovision song contest 2016. 

After a long  season , 4 candidates for the win reached the final :Hovi Star , Nofar Salman , Ella Daniel and Gil Hadash .

The national final was alright , pretty long and personally I think the format didn't work as well as last year. 

The format worked as a battles format : a battle to determine who will compete in the superfinal and another one to determine who is  the winner.

First battle was Hovi aganist Ella - Hovi won and qualified to the superfinal.

Hovi Star will represent Israel in Stockholm this year.

Second battle was Gil aganist Nofar - Nofar won and qualified to the superfinal.

This year the superfinal cotained  3 candidates , so the jury had to pick between Ella and Gil and they picked Ella to continue to the superfinal . 

So after a pretty long show the winner was Hovi star with his song  "Made of Stars ".Hovi is an Israeli singer , who has participated before in the "Rising Star" but didn't make it through the final .

My thoughts and Rating of the songs , by their ranking :

 1st - Hovi Star -  "Made Of Stars" - Hovi has powerful voice skills and the staging looked very nice although the song isn't the best. 6\10

2nd- Nofar Salman - "Made Of Stars"( Hovi and Nofar shared the same song with different musical arrangement ) - very special voice  and powerful vocals , I liked this one better , it was more oriental and unique. 8\10

3rd - Ella Daniel - "Somebody Out There" - Very Catchy song and it would fit to Eurovision more the Hovi's song , although I wasn't impressed from the vocals in that performance but by following the season I can tell she is an amazing singer ! 7\10 

4th -Gil Hadash - "Follow The Sun"- She didn't got to sing it since she didn't qualifie the superfinal but anyway my thoughts on the song : the song has a pretty unique style although not sure it would fit to Eurovision . 5/10

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