The Next Star for Eurovision 2018 — Israel’s seemingly endless national selection for its Eurovision Song Contest star — continued this week with another elimination round, setting the lineup for the quarterfinal that will be broadcast next week.

Following this week’s episodes, we are now down to the final eight artists. Producers announced that the grand final will take place in about two weeks, though they are waiting to reveal the exact date and other details. Scroll down to find out who is still in the race to represent Israel at Eurovision 2018 in Lisbon.

On this week’s episodes there were no duels, as the remaining nine acts performed. But only eight of them could survive to the next round.

This week’s round was “The elimination seat”. The first artist sang in front of the judges and the audience.  His score set the bar for the next acts.

After each performance, the act with the lowest score had to sit on “The elimination seat” until an act received an even lower score than him. After all of the performances, the act remaining on the cursed chair was eliminated.

The voting process went as usual: each judge voted yay or nay, with a yay awarding the contestant a score of 10%. The audience in the TV studio voted in a similar way via a special smartphone application and the scores were added together during the performance.

The scores

Adva Omer – “Alabina” – Score: 63% (votes from three judges)

Riki Ben Ari – “If I Ain’t Got You” – Score: 88% (votes from four judges)

Chen Aharoni – “Grenade” – Score: 86% (votes from four judges)

Jonathan Mergui – “Roar” – Score: 89% (votes from four judges)

Jose Steinberg – “Smooth” – Score: 62% (votes from three judges)

Howie Danao – “Troublemaker” – Score: 75% (votes from three judges)

Netta Barzilai – “Barbie Girl” – Score: 70% (votes from three judges)

Ravit Batashvili – “Elaich” (To You) – Score: 79% (votes from three judges)

Eden Meiri – “Haperach Begani” (The Flower in My Garden) – Score: 79% (votes from four judges)

The act that got the lowest score was Jose Steinberg and therefore he was eliminated.

THE 8 REMAINING HOPEFULS

Which artist do you like the most? Who do you think would do well for Israel at Eurovision?

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Photo credits: Ronen Akerman / The Next Star for Eurovision

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Janro
Janro
6 years ago

Chen to win!!! <3

Janro
Janro
6 years ago
Reply to  Janro

Scratch that. Just listened to Jonathan! He is incredible!

gili
gili
6 years ago
Reply to  Janro

scratch that too…you should listen to neta, she must win!!!
she is the real artist in the competition, not just a good with nice face..go neta!!!

TJ
TJ
6 years ago
Reply to  gili

Artist? What is the art in mumbling two syllables, record them, put them on loop replay and “sing”/talk over it with electronically modified voice? All of this will not be permitted in ESC – that’s when everyone will realize, that she actually is not a singer, but a DJ. A good one maybe, even an excellent one, if you wish, but that’s where it ends.

gili
gili
6 years ago
Reply to  TJ

she is the best singer in the contest even without any looper..i know her capabilities..the best by far…

Rami
Rami
6 years ago
Reply to  gili

You see gili neta is not as good as u think she will fail big time and i am not sure they will let her use the looper

D
D
6 years ago

That 1%.