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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 365

Netta Barzilai

Israeli protesters block a highway during a demonstration calling on the government to reach a deal with Hamas to bring home hostages in Tel Aviv, Israel, May 6, 2024 (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
May 18, 2024, 1:46 pm
Ambassadors, musicians headline rally highlighting plight of international hostages
Hillary Clinton sends video message; US, UK, German and Austrian envoys address crowd, along with Rachel Polin-Goldberg; Eden Golan, Netta Barzilai, Noga Erez perform
By ToI Staff
Singer Ishay Ribo entertains the troops, like many of his musical colleagues around Israel right now during the 2023 Israel-Gaza War (Courtesy Ishay Ribo)
October 25, 2023, 11:31 am
Israel’s musicians sing for troops and injured, mourners and missing
Ishay Ribo and Berry Sakharov, Hanan Ben Ari and Netta Barzilai, Harel Skaat, Shlomo Artzi and others compose new songs and perform old ones for the nation
By Jessica Steinberg
American pop star Bruno Mars will perform in Tel Aviv on October 4 and 7, 2023, from his October 1, 2023 show in Tbilisi, Georgia. (Courtesy: B.N.)
October 2, 2023, 1:15 pm
Pop star Bruno Mars makes his way to Tel Aviv for two shows
Grammy winner will host Israeli performers Jonathan Mergui and Agam Buhnut on first night and Netta Barzilai and Eliad Nachum at second concert
By Jessica Steinberg
Noa Kirel poses for photographers at the European MTV Awards 2022 in Dusseldorf, Germany, November 13, 2022. (AP Photo/ Martin Meissner)
August 9, 2023, 4:23 am
Noa Kirel to make US concert debut at Madison Square Garden in 2024
Eurovision candidate will be second ever-Israeli to headline performance at 20,000-seat NYC arena, though she has sold-out bigger venues back home
By julia GERGELY
Participants at the annual Pride Parade in Tel Aviv, on June 10, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
June 8, 2023, 9:08 am
Tens of thousands set to attend Tel Aviv’s 25th Pride Parade
Event marking anniversary of LGBTQ community’s annual parade to be split in two due to intense heat, with march taking place Thursday afternoon and party on Friday
By Michael Horovitz
Noa Kirel of Israel performs during the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool, England, May 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
May 14, 2023, 2:25 am
Sweden wins 2023 Eurovision, while Israel’s Noa Kirel finishes in 3rd place
‘Unicorn’ propels Israel to best finish since its 2018 win with ‘Toy’ by Netta Barzilai, who was on hand in Liverpool to sing alongside other past Eurovision icons at grand final
By Amy Spiro
Israel's Noa Kirel rehearses her Eurovision song 'Unicorn' on stage at Liverpool Arena in Liverpool, UK, May 3, 2023. (Sarah Louise Bennett/EBU)
May 9, 2023, 11:38 am
Israel hoping Noa Kirel’s star power can fuel a come-from-behind Eurovision win
Experienced pop singer seeks to ride ‘Unicorn’ to the top of the song contest in Liverpool, but faces tough competition from Sweden, Finland and France
By Amy Spiro
Russia's last-night show talk show host Ivan Urgant hosts American TV host Stephen Colbert in 2017. (Screen grab/YouTube)
March 12, 2022, 10:06 pm
After he criticized Ukraine war, speculation that Russian TV host fled to Israel
Ivan Urgant’s popular late-night talk show was taken off the air shortly before Russia invaded its neighbor
By Tobias Siegal
Guitarist Berry Sakharoff, one of the Israeli musicians chosen by Apple Music to share his current playlist for the Jewish New Year. (courtesy, Apple Music)
August 26, 2021, 8:09 pm
Apple Music marks Rosh Hashanah with Israeli artists’ playlists
Berry Sakharov, Omer Adam, Noa Kirel, Miri Mesika, Ravid Plotnick and Ella Lee share the songs that made their year
By Jessica Steinberg
Eden Alene from Israel performs at the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest at Ahoy arena in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Tuesday, May 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
May 22, 2021, 5:37 pm
Eden set free: Israeli singer to storm Eurovision stage in Saturday night finals
The country’s first Ethiopian-Israeli representative will battle 25 other countries in front of a smaller-than-usual live audience
By ToI Staff
Israeli singer Netta Barzilai, who won the 2018 Eurovision song contest, in Tel Aviv, January 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
December 22, 2020, 12:20 am
Join ToI Community to catch our interview with Eurovision winner Netta Barzilai
In this week’s Behind the Headlines, exclusively for ToI Community, we sit down for a candid conversation with the Israeli pop star who took the world by storm
By ToI Staff
Netta Barzilai takes on a Disney classic at their request, September 2020 (Courtesy Disney Records)
September 3, 2020, 6:32 pm
Netta Barzilai covers classic song from Disney’s Mary Poppins
The Eurovision Song Contest winner loops her own version of ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’
By Jessica Steinberg
A noose image posted, and later removed, by Netta Barzilai to protest Israeli government coronavirus restrictions on the entertainment industry. (Screen capture: Instagram)
July 8, 2020, 5:50 pm
Netta Barzilai removes noose imagery posted to protest virus rules
Eurovision winner says ‘a lot of people were triggered and offended’ by graphic adopted by culture industry to decry government restrictions
By Marcy Oster
Screen capture from video showing Will Ferrell, left, and Rachel McAdams in the Netflix film 'Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga.' (YouTube)
June 30, 2020, 2:15 pm
Eurovision parody movie used Tel Aviv stage for authentic feel
Cast of ‘Fire Saga’ was flown in to use set when annual singing contest was hosted by Israel in 2019; lead actor Will Ferrell says he long wanted to make the film
By Stuart Winer
The Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra, which will host a slightly altered program for its Bach in Jerusalem Festival, opening March 17-19, 2020 (Courtesy Rust Ambaeramov)
March 10, 2020, 12:57 pm
Despite coronavirus, event organizers say the show must go on (later)
From Bach to jazz, and Koolulam to the Israel Festival, Israeli directors work on last-minute changes and delays, contend with cancellations, as COVID-19 scrambles their plans
By Jessica Steinberg
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