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Report card: Israel at Eurovision in the 2020s

  • Writer: aussievision
    aussievision
  • 26 minutes ago
  • 2 min read
Photo courtesy of the EBU
Photo courtesy of the EBU

With five Eurovision Song Contests completed this decade, how is each nation faring?


In an ongoing series, the Aussievision team will rate the performance of each Eurovision nation in alphabetical order.


We’ll look back at their results from 2021 to 2025, their qualification record, give our team’s rating, and see how they stack up against other countries.



Israel's Eurovision results of the 2020s


  • 2021: Eden Alene - Set Me Free : 17th in the Grand Final

  • 2022: Michael Ben David - I.M. : 13th in Semi-Final 2 (failed to qualify)

  • 2023: Noa Kirel - Unicorn : 3rd in the Grand Final

  • 2024: Eden Golan - Hurricane : 5th in the Grand Final

  • 2025: Yuval Raphael - New Day Will Rise : 2nd in the Grand Final


  • Top 10s: 3

  • Qualifications: 80%



Team rating of Israel: 57.1%


We asked the Aussievision team to rate Israel's Eurovision 2020s entries on a scale of 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest).


This gave us an average overall score from the seven contributors who voted. We then converted that into a percentage.


Israel's score was: 57.1%


The scores ranged from 5/10 to 7/10, with a pretty even spread of marks.



Team comments


"Let's be honest: regardless of your views, the last three years of Israel in the Top 5 proved that they might resurge into a powerhouse as it was when the likes of Yardena Arazi, Izhar Cohen, and Duo Datz gave the flavor. If they can keep up the pace, who knows that Eurovision will return to Israel in the next five years. I gave them a higher mark because of Noa Kirel." ~ John Christian


"It can't be denied that historically Israel are a strong Eurovision nation.

Obviously other factors have influenced their performance in the past two years - especially the government funded worldwide campaign for Yuval this year.

My mid-table ranking for them in this decade is based on their performance up to 2023, which was the clear peak with Noa Kirel's superb overall package with Unicorn." ~ Kiel



Updated rankings:


Here’s how the leaderboard looks so far in our 2020s Report Card series:


1st: Finland - 88.1%

2nd: France 81.1%

3rd: Greece - 80.8%

4th: Estonia - 80%

5th: Austria - 71.4%

6th: Armenia - 70.8%

7th: Albania - 67.5%

8th: Cyprus - 66.4%

9th: Croatia - 64.4%

10th: Israel - 57.1%

11th=: Belgium - 53.3%

11th=: Czechia - 53.3%

11th=: Iceland - 53.3%

14th: Australia - 45.4%

15th: Germany - 41%

16th: Azerbaijan - 32.5%

17th: Ireland - 32%

18th: Denmark - 28%

19th: Georgia - 26.1%


We'll see how they rank against other nations in the coming days and weeks.


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