It makes sense to choose one of the biggest pop stars in Israel to represent us at the Eurovision Song Contest.
What does Noa Kirel have to do to ensure that Eurovision 2024 returns to Jerusalem (or for the sake of the status quo, to Tel Aviv, because it is Saturday anyway).
She is young and beautiful, she sings excellently and dances wonderfully.
This is an appropriate Zionist response to rising anti-Semitism around the world.
A winning answer to all pro-Palestinian supporters of the BDS.
"Do you think you're better than us?"
We will ask them with implicit condescension, "Look how we make trashy pop, better than all of you!".
The public in Israel was not exposed to what happened behind the scenes yesterday while the committee for the election of the official representative for the Eurovision Song Contest convened.
At first it seemed that they approached the young star ahead of time with the offer, and she gave up the Eurovision with most of her impudence.
The committee nevertheless elected her, and she was required to give a "final answer," and after "expressing her consent," there were concerns about a U-turn that Noa Kirl might refuse!
It all happened on Twitter, when an entire country is unaware of the great drama.
A quarter of an hour later I received from Kiral's staff a soothing siren.
Noa Kirl responded: "We received the news with complete surprise, we are happy and thankful for Noa's choice and proud to represent the State of Israel with dignity!" Well, what could be so bad about representing the State of Israel in the European singing competition?
Eurovision can be approached in one of two professional, personal and national ways.
In recent years, under the auspices of various and weird reality shows, the personal has dominated.
The Eurovision Song Contest is still one of the biggest and most important international stages that an Israeli singer can reach.
According to official figures, the last competition was watched by 161 million men and women.
It is such an international success that even though it is essentially a European enterprise, they have tried to recreate the idea in the US as well. But I want to bring back for a moment the glory of the national mission to the Eurovision Song Contest.
It is not for nothing that one of the most Israeli songs, such that there is no Independence Day, graduation event or evening of public singing without it, is the "Hallelujah" of a band of milk and honey.
Avi Toledano's "parent" or Ofra Haza's "Chai" - they all became anthems.
In the 1970s and 1980s, a performance on the Eurovision stage was not considered a career leap, it was the presence of the Zionist ethos.
Proof that we met the task, that we returned to the homeland and built in it not only a gray routine, but also a sublime culture.
We are a divided nation, on the road to elections again, and it's hard to feel that someone or something represents us all.
A call to be our representative for the Eurovision Song Contest is equivalent to recruiting for the reserve, after all, Noa Kirl made an army here and made the time of the soldiers throughout the country pleasant.
Even if it does not exactly work out in the schedule, even if the artistic vision is a little different, there is great value in normalizing relations with the world. Not bad for two evenings a year (semi-final, and final. It is clear that she will advance to the final) The world will want to talk about Israel that looks like Noa Kirl.
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