Yuval Raphael knows she has her work cut out for her. Israel’s entry into the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest is slated to take the stage on for Thursday’s (May 15) second semi-final round amid tensions ...

Since September, more than 1,000 artists and labels including Lorde, Björk and Massive Attackhave joined an international initiative to remove their music from Israel. The boycott, called No Music for ...

MENAHEM GOLAN started filming a new musical with Gaon, ‘Kazablan,’ 1973. (photo credit: Dan Hadani Collection, PRITZKER FAMILY NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION AT THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF ISRAEL) A ...

Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland and Slovenia are quitting the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest after Israel was cleared to enter.

An Israeli music critic and a Palestinian musician share some songs with NPR's Daniel Estrin — and reflect on more than a year of the war... The songs Israelis and Palestinians are listening to now, ...

Israel has selected a survivor of the deadly October 7 Hamas attack to represent the nation at Eurovision this year. Yuval Raphael, who has spoken about how she hid under dead bodies inside a bomb ...

The Israeli Jazz project by French photographer Raphael Perez introduces the world to something it may not fully be aware of—Israeli jazz musicians who have made a name for themselves. And there are ...

Singers Yardena Arazi and Boaz Sharabi declined Transportation Minister Miri Regev’s request to participate in the torch-bearing event at the Independence Day ceremony at Mount Herzl. Sharabi’s ...

Itay Benda, an Israeli singer, has found a unique way to advocate for Israel. On any given day — except Saturday — he goes live on his social media accounts and sings to people from all around the ...

Eurovision's executive board said it will have an "open discussion" with its members in December concerning calls to ban Israel from participating in the pan-national singing competition. By Scott ...

The Arabic and Hebrew music landscape has been shaken up dramatically by the Israel-Hamas war — first by shock, then silence, and now a burst of new songs. Israeli music critic Einav Schiff and ...