Israel's internally selected entry Hurricane finally was approved by EBU March 7, 2024 and published three days later after several re-writes after its original lyrics and title October rain. The song and its music video refers to Re'im Music Festival Massacre on October 7, 2023 when Hamas did a surprise attack killing 384 and taking at least 40 hostages, many of them still missing.
Eden Golan (20) is Israeli-Russian singer. She was born in Israel but moved to Moscow when she was six for 12 years. She started her singing career taking part in the Russian selection for Junior Eurovision in 2015 and later Russian The Voice Kids. Back in Israel she found fame winning The Rising Star that was used to select the Eurovision artist. She won both the jury and the public vote.
She has released recently four singles before Hurricane, and already one in Russia in 2015: Schastye.
So, what do I think? Putting everything else side and concentrating only solemnly on this entry it's one of the best songs wise this year. In a year lacking ballads this is the clear simple power ballad being a lot easier to digest than Serbia or Portugal for example. The ending in Hebrew is a nice touch. Time will tell how people will vote for this. One can't give negative votes so I think this will end up easily in top-10 who knows how high there. And indeed, as a song it deserves it.
In our Home Jury Israel scored between 6 and 9, so very well indeed!
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