Israel is choosing HaKokhav HaBa once again to select its entrant for Eurovision song contest 2025 in Basel. The shows started in October 2024. Apparently thousands of artists, unknown and known ones applied to take part while Eurovision 2019 host Assi Azar is hosting the selection with Rotem Sela. Among the judges an Eurovision veteran Shiri Maimon. The artists sing covers of their choice and only four will reach the final and the entry for Basel will then searched by an internal panel. The artists have been eliminated one by one, or two at occasion until the four finalists were left for the final on January 22, 2025 to select the artist. The song for Basel will then we selected internally to the chosen artist and will be revealed later. The finalists are Daniel Weiss, Red Band & Moran Aharoni, Yuval Raphael and Valery Hamati. Red Band is made of puppets with 20 years of experience already, Yuval is a Nova survivor and Valery Hamati seems to be the favorite to beat being, a Christ...