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Israel Kdam for Eurovision 2009 (Israel)
| Israel : Noa & Mira to Moscow with Einaiych
Israel have selected their entry for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest this evening during a special Kdam Eurovision show this evening. Noa & Mira Awad will go to Moscow with the song Einaiych (There Must Be Another Way). Back in January, Israeli broadcaster IBA announced the selection of world renowned Israeli singer Noa (Achinoam Nini), together with the Arab/Israeli artist Mira Awad as the duo who would represent Israel in this years contest in Moscow. This evening in Jerusalem, Noa & Mira Awad performed four songs in a live televised national selection called Kdam Eurovision 2009 hosted by Eden Harel. The show began by an introduction to the juries.In the week prior to the national selection, the public have been allowed to vote by SMS and internet for their favourite song. In this evenings show, the voting was mixed between SMS, Internet and jury votes. The songs were presented as follows :- Kol Shniya - (Second Chance) 32 points Na'amin Bachalom - (Faith in The Light) 72 points Bo'i Lirkod Iti - (Will You Dance With Me) 84 points Einaiych - (There Must Be Another Way) 112 points After the performances, Israeli president Shimon Peres addressed the viewers by saying that he appreciated the work that Noa and Mira Awad are doing for the people and for peace. He also paid tribute to Noa as being "The Voice of Israel". The public televoters preferred the song Bo'i Lirkod Ti as their favourite, but the jury preferred Einaiych and the combination of SMS, internet and jury votes are highlighted above. Israel finished in ninth place last in last years contest with Boaz Mauda and his song The Fire In Your Eyes. Noa and Mira Awad will participate in the First Semi-Final of this years Eurovision Song Contest on Tuesday May 12th in Moscow. Israel have won Europe's favourite TV show on no fewer than three occasions. Firstly Izhar Cohen and Alphabeta won in Paris in 1978 with the song A Ba Ni Bi. Israel then retained the title on home soil in Jerusalem in 1979 when Milk & Honey triumphed with Hallelujah. Almost two decades later, Dana International won the 1998 contest in Birmingham in a thrillingly close finish ahead of the United Kingdom and Malta with the song Diva. | |||||
Tonight at 20:45 CET, IBA will air the KDAM Eurovision 2009 national final. Four songs will be presented for the internally selected artists Noa (Achinoam Nini) and Mira Awad. The official Eurovision site of IBA will launch a live webstream at that time so we will all watch the show. They are going to sing 4 songs as follows: Kol Shniyah (Every Moment) – Second Chance Lehamin Bachalom (To believe in the dream) – Faith in your light Boi Lirkod iti (Come and Dance With Me)-Will you dance with me? Eineich (Your eyes) – There must be another way This is the first time that the songs will be sing in Hebrew, Arabic and English and that an Israeli Arab is going to represent Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest.
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12 February 2009
More articles about Noa's performance in Eurovision
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| Jewish-Arab duo faces criticism ahead of songfest. By MATTI FRIEDMAN - Associated Press Writer
SHMURAT HASHARON, Israel -- Israel is sending a Jewish-Arab duo to represent it with a song of peace at Europe's best-known song competition at a particularly fraught moment for relations between the country's Jews and Arabs. Not surprisingly, the choice has sparked criticism and debate with a gravity that couldn't be further from the Eurovision competition itself, a festival of flamboyant pop and unapologetic kitsch which draws some 100 million TV viewers every year. Achinoam Nini, a regular on the world music scene known internationally as Noa, and Mira Awad, a local actress and singer, were selected by Israel's national broadcasting authority. Their selection came a day after Israel launched its Gaza offensive in December to halt rocket fire by Hamas militants. Israel is sending a Jewish-Arab duo to represent it with a song of peace at Europe's best-known song competition, just after one of the bloodiest rounds of Israeli-Palestinian fighting and at a particularly fraught moment for relations between the country's Jews and Arabs. Awad, who will be the first Arab ever to represent Israel at the competition, was roundly criticized for agreeing to go and became the subject of a petition organized by Israeli Arab artists who said sending her and Nini, a veteran peace activist, was a deliberate attempt to portray Israel as something it is not. In an interview between rehearsals at Nini's home, the two singers said they would nonetheless appear at the contest, slated to be held in Moscow in May. They are working on four songs, each in English, Arabic and Hebrew. One will be chosen in a national broadcast next month as Israel's official entry. When her manager called to tell her she had been selected, Awad said, she was glued to coverage of the Gaza fighting. "I said, 'OK, OK,' and I closed the phone just to keep watching the TV," she said. At the time, the Gaza death toll was climbing steeply. It eventually reached 1,300, according to Gaza health officials, at least half of them civilians. Israeli Arabs held angry protests condemning the offensive, which ended Jan. 18. "The situation is very depressing and very complex now, and we understand that it might seem to some people a bit cynical ... sending a Jewish singer alongside a Palestinian singer," Awad said. She said she was going to make the point that Jews and Arabs had no option but to find some way to live together. "It's very important for me not to go back to the corner and just disappear," she said. Awad's career suggests a sunnier take on Arab life in Israel. Raised in an Arab town in Galilee but now a resident of overwhelmingly Jewish Tel Aviv, she has achieved mainstream popularity, becoming a sought-after television and stage actress. Last year, after she starred in the country's first Arabic sitcom aimed at Jewish viewers, a breathless profile in a Hebrew paper crowned her "the new Arab woman." Around a fifth of Israel's 7 million citizens are Arabs. They have equal rights under the law but face discrimination in government budgets and employment, and have poverty rates higher than those of the country's Jews. Relations have been further strained by the Gaza offensive. Some Arab lawmakers have openly identified with Israel's enemies, and last week, a Jewish party with an overtly anti-Arab platform saw its support surge in a national election and became the third-largest grouping in parliament. "The Israeli government is sending the two of you to Moscow as part of its propaganda machine, which is trying to create the appearance of Jewish-Arab 'coexistence' under which it carries out the daily massacre of Palestinian civilians," read the petition targeting Nini and Awad. One of the signatories was Mohammad Bakri, a well-known Israeli Arab actor and director who has been critical of the Israeli government. "I don't want Mira to be used," he said. "It's not a big honor to represent Israel right now in the Eurovision. It's a shame, in my point of view." The Israeli officials responsible for the choice say both were selected on their merits as artists. Nini was picked because she is the best-known Israeli singer in Europe, said Yoav Ginai, the Israel Broadcasting Authority official in charge of the committee, and Nini suggested that Awad sing with her. The committee thought that was a "great idea," he said. Israel won the Eurovision contest twice in the 1970s, and then again in 1998 with a song called "Diva," performed by the country's best-known transsexual. Nini, an Israeli of Yemenite extraction who grew up in New York, sees the competition as a "stage where we can stand and have millions of people watch and listen." "Some people will see an Arab girl who looks Jewish and a Jewish girl who looks Arab, which is what we are, she said. "Maybe it will open some people's minds." |
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| 12 de febrero de 2009.- La historia de Noa y Mira Awad, ese minicombo femenino, multiétnico y bilateral que representará a Israel en Eurovisión si Yahvé y Alá quieren, muy bien podría dar para el argumento de una comedia digna del genial Billy Wilder. De no ser algo tan serio. Que lo es. Y mucho.
De Noa, israelí con trazas de palestina, ya sabíamos que gusta desde hace años de tender puentes interculturales a favor de la paz. Lo cual es de agradecer, sobre todo por la falta de artistas locales dispuestos a mediar en aquel berenjenal y a colaborar, como hace ella, con cantantes árabes y palestinos de la talla de Khaled, Nabil Salameh, Handallah o Amal Murkus. A eso se le llama valentía. De Mira Awad, cantautora palestina con pinta de supermodelo israelí, la otra mitad del dúo eurovisivo, sabemos ahora que con su aportación representará a los 1,5 millones de palestinos que viven en Israel como ciudadanos de Israel. Eso, con la que está cayendo en la Franja de Gaza, también es un acto de valor muy a tener en cuenta. Muchos dirán que este tipo de alianzas musicales, por más repletas de buenas intenciones que estén, nunca sirven de nada. Que caen en saco roto. Al igual que toda aquella iniciativa que pretenda paliar los daños colaterales de esa Guerra Nada Santa, quizás porque allí se cruzan intereses de toda índole y condición. Lo único que sacarán Noa y Mira de todo esto son problemas. Como los que ya tienen, de hecho. Sobre ambas recaen los sapos y culebras de una campaña mediática que hace de ellas dos mujeres al borde de un ataque de fundamentalistas sin ningún fundamento. Merecerá la pena asomarse a lo que ocurra este año en Moscú (¡que por mayo, era por mayo!, ¡el 16!), aunque sólo sea para rendirse ante dos artistas que han decidido jugársela por minimizar las catastróficas desdichas que asolan a su país. Nos iría a todos mejor si actuásemos así: mojándonos. Por eso les deseo, a ambas, lo mejor. Por darnos una lección a todos en estos tiempos de miedo, asco e idiotez. Mientras tanto, por aquí seguimos igual que siempre, si no peor, en materias eurovisivas. Es decir, enfangados hasta el tuétano de la gilipollez y viendo cómo deshojan una margarita llamada Banalidad. De casting en casting y tiro porque me toca. Con un jurado de juzgado de guardia: José Luis 'Perrea Perrea' Uribarri, Toni Garrido, Mauro Canut y Mariola Orellana. Y sin saber aún quién será el afortunado en representarnos de una puñetera vez. ¡Manda 'webs'! ¿Melody o Soraya? No lo sé. Ni me importa. Quizá haya sorpresas. Pero yo las deseo, a ambas, lo peor. Por si las moscas |
12 January 2009
Noa's words about Eurovision
| Hello friends,
As some of you might have heard, I will be representing Israel in the Eurovision song contest in May, together with my good friend Mira Awad. I imagine this may come as a surprise to some of you…… I had been offered this position in the past and refused. This year I agreed, with the goal of using this huge media platform (many millions of viewers) as a means to convey a message of peace in these difficult times, together with my friend Mira . We will write and perform the song together, in Hebrew, Arabic, and English. With a message such as this, and artistic freedom , I am proud to represent Israel in the Eurovision. Mira Awad is a Palestinian-Israeli singer/songwriter/actress. We have collaborated often in the past 8 years. She is a gem, a brave, talented unique woman. She represents 1.5 million Palestinians living in Israel as Israeli citizens. The war in Gaza is a horrible tragedy for all of us, as all our many wars and acts of terror have been over the years. The innocent lives lost, year after year, are heart-breaking and unbearable for both sides. Mira and I want to convey a message of peace and dialogue during these difficult times, to show that co-existence is STILL an option, our only one! Our friendship is living proof of this. We have not lost hope! To quote the one and only Leonard Cohen: “Ring the bell that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering, There is a crack in everything, That’s how the light gets in” Sending you all my best wishes, shalom and saalam, Noa (Achinoam Nini) |














