Israel in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018

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Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018
Country Israel
National selection
Selection process
  • Artist: National final
  • Song: Internal selection
Selection date(s)
  • Artist: 6 September 2018
  • Song: 8 October 2018
Selected entrantNoam Dadon
Selected song"Children Like These"
Selected songwriter(s)Eden Hason
Finals performance
Final result14th, 81 points
Israel in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
◄2016 • 2018

Israel participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018 which took place on 25 November 2018, in Minsk, Belarus. The Israeli broadcaster Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (KAN) was responsible for organising their entry for the contest. This is Israel's third appearance at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

Background[]

Main article: Israel in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Prior to the 2018 contest, Israel had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest twice since its debut in 2012,[1] represented by the group Kids.il, who performed the song "Let the Music Win",[2] which finished in eighth place achieving a score of sixty-eight points.[3] They briefly returned in 2016 with singing "Follow My Heart" before withdrawing again in 2017. Israel has previously shown interest to take part in the 2004 and 2008 contests, although no reasons were ever published to detail the change of interest.[4]

The EBU published the final list of participating countries on 2 August 2018, in which Israel appeared within the participating list for the contest which takes place on 25 November 2018, in Minsk, Belarus.[5]

Before Junior Eurovision[]

National final[]

On 6 September 2018, a televised national final was held at the Russel Theatre in Ramat Gan. Six candidates were presented, out of which Noam Dadon was selected by a jury panel consisting of Yardena Arazi, Lior Narkis and Hanan Ben Ari.

Draw Artist Song (Original artists)
1 Lian Biran "La Vita è Bella" (Nicola Piovani)
2 Adar Kagan "Od me'at" (Ehud Banai)
3 Michaela Sher "Vienna" (Billy Joel)
4 Romi Netz "Na'im achshav" (Elai Botner & The Outside Kids)
5 Roni Meduel "Arms" (Christina Perri)
6 Noam Dadon "Me'kha'ke" (Rita)

Song selection[]

After Dadon's win, KAN launched an open call for the song, which a jury internally selected the song "Children Like These (Yelaad’im Kaeele)" for him. The song was written and composed by Eden Hason.

Artist and song information[]

Noam Dadon
Noam Dadon at JESC 2018 (cropped).jpg
Background information
Born (2005-10-09) 9 October 2005 (age 16)
OriginJerusalem
GenresEthno
Occupation(s)Singer
InstrumentsVocals

Noam Dadon (Hebrew: נועם דדון; born 20 June 2005) is an Israeli singer. He represented Israel at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018. His song for the contest, "Children Like These" was released 8 October 2018.

At Junior Eurovision[]

During the opening ceremony and the running order draw which both took place on 19 November 2018, Israel was drawn to perform fourteenth on 25 November 2018, following Georgia and preceding France.[6]

Voting[]

The same voting system that was introduced in the 2017 edition was used, where the results were determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting. Every country had a national jury that consisted of three music industry professionals and two children aged between 10 and 15 who were citizens of the country they represented. The rankings of those jurors were combined to make an overall top ten.[7]

The online voting consisted of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 23 November 2018 when a recap of all the rehearsal performances was shown on the contest's website Junioreurovision.tv before the viewers could vote. After this, voters also had the option to watch longer one-minute clips from each participant's rehearsal. This first round of voting ended on Sunday 25 November at 15:59 CET. The second phase of the online voting took place during the live show and began right after the last performance and was open for 15 minutes. International viewers were able vote for a minimum of three and a maximum of five songs.[8] They were also able to vote for their own country's song. These votes were then turned into points which were determined by the percentage of votes received. For example, if a song received 20% of the votes, it received 20% of the available points.

Detailed voting results[]

Detailed voting results from Israel[9]
Draw Country Juror A Juror B Juror C Juror D Juror E Average Rank Points Awarded
01  Ukraine 2 3 3 3 5 3 8
02  Portugal 17 18 19 16 17 18
03  Kazakhstan 14 11 18 8 12 13
04  Albania 15 13 17 11 16 15
05  Russia 6 8 6 5 8 6 5
06  Netherlands 8 9 5 9 6 8 3
07  Azerbaijan 9 12 13 10 13 11
08  Belarus 16 14 15 18 15 16
09  Ireland 18 17 14 17 18 17
10  Serbia 19 19 12 19 19 19
11  Italy 5 2 2 4 4 4 7
12  Australia 11 5 7 6 10 9 2
13  Georgia 1 6 1 2 1 1 12
14  Israel
15  France 13 7 9 7 11 10 1
16  Macedonia 10 15 10 15 9 12
17  Armenia 7 4 8 12 7 7 4
18  Wales 12 16 16 13 14 14
19  Malta 4 1 4 1 2 2 10
20  Poland 3 10 11 14 3 5 6

References[]

  1. ^ Granger, Anthony (10 July 2012). "Israel Junior Eurovision debut". eurovoix.com. Eurovoix. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
  2. ^ Escudero, Victor M. (13 October 2012). "Israel debuts in Junior Eurovision with Kids.il". junioreurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
  3. ^ "Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2012 Scoreboard". junioreurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union. 1 December 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
  4. ^ Granger, Anthony (21 August 2016). "Israel may participate in Junior Eurovision 2016". eurovoix.com. Eurovoix. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
  5. ^ "Surprise! Ukraine joins as 20th country for Minsk 2018". junioreurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union. 2 August 2018.
  6. ^ Zwart, Josianne (19 November 2018). "Running order of Junior Eurovision 2018 revealed". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 19 November 2018. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  7. ^ Granger, Anthony (15 November 2018). "Junior Eurovision 2018 – How Does The Voting Work?". Eurovoix.
  8. ^ "Junior Eurovision fans: Cast your vote online!". Junioreurovision.tv. 23 November 2018. Archived from the original on 26 November 2018.
  9. ^ a b c "Results of the Final of Minsk 2018". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 1 June 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2021.

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