Israel's Yuval Raphael carried her head high in a show of grace and strength at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest in Basel.
The concert program features selections that speak to the human spirit’s endurance.
Liam O'Hanna, whose stage name is Mo Chara, showed a Hezbollah flag during one of the band's shows in London in November.
In an interview with N12 last week, the 83-year-old Garfunkel said that he’d join Gefen for four songs during the Neshef Rock festival at HaYarkon Park on May 29.
It was an exciting night, as we got to witness a star – Nova survivor Yuval Raphael – being born.
While he once stood under the bright lights of Kochav Habah (Rising Star), his music now resonates in a different key: soul, faith, and national healing.
“If you ban it, then people want to hear it more, and then it becomes more popular, if you talk about Jewish people, that they’re going to remove you from everything,” Rogan said.
Raphael sang “New Day Will Rise,” a song by Keren Peles that references the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas on Israel.
“This is an opera about everything,” director Ido Ricklin says. "“It’s about love and loneliness, idealism and self-interest – and it’s at the same time about art and life itself."
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