Yuval Raphael, a 24-year-old aspiring singer who survived the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel's Nova Music Festival, will represent Israel at the Eurovision 2024 contest in Basel, Switzerland. Raphael won Israel's singing competition after captivating judges with her vocal abilities and powerful personal story of survival.
A giant mural of the Eurovision 2023 logo incorporating the Ukrainian flag adorns the dips at New Brighton on May 11, 2023 in Liverpool, England.One of the survivors of the Oct.
The singer who is fluent in English, French and her native Hebrew, was rescued by the father of another Nova attendee, who drove into the battle zone to save his daughter, and others’, lives. “Every time we raised our heads, we couldn’t understand why there were less and less people in the bomb shelter,” Raphael said in a March 2024 speech in front of the on behalf of the Jerusalem Institute of Justice. “We thought the terrorists were taking the dead bodies.
Raphael has been an advocate for Israel over the past year and has said that she hopes, “the world will hear a first-person account of what I went through and have been dealing with every day, so no one could claim otherwise.” The Oct. 7 assault in which Hamas militants killed, sexually assaulted and abused more than 1,200 mostly civilian Israelis and took 251 hostages led to a nearly three-year war between Israel and Hamas that ended over the weekend thanks to a tenuous ceasefire.
The world’s biggest music event — which regularly draws 200 million viewers in more than 40 countries — is headed into its 69th year. Typically averse to any displays of political speech or nationalism, the European Broadcasting Union defended the inclusion of an Israeli contestant last year in the midst of the war that Palestinian authorities said resulted in the death of more than 46,000 residents of Gaza.
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