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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Noam Bettan will represent Israel at Eurovision 2026. (photo credit: Tal Givoni) Each song undergoes a review process, and EBU ...

The scene cuts from Dubai to Tel Aviv, the lyrics switch from Arabic to Hebrew to English and the song is a slightly kitsch electro-pop duet by artists who, for now, remain apart. The normalisation of ...

Boy George performs on stage during Henley Festival 2026 at Mill Meadows on July 08, 2026 in Henley-on-Thames, England. (Photo by Ki Price/WireImage) English singer-songwriter Boy George has had a ...

What accounts for this vast corpus of foreign songs in Israeli music and what impact have such renderings had on the development of Israeli culture? After surveying this significant, yet largely ...

GENEVA − Israel was cleared on Thursday, Dec. 4, to enter the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest by the organiser, prompting Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland and Slovenia to withdraw over the Gaza war and ...

Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and The Netherlands will boycott next year's song competition in protest of the decision. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) the ...

How do you turn it into music? Deborah Sacks Mintz has just released a new album, “Songs from the Beit Midrash,” and she’ll perform some of those songs at Congregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck on ...