{"id":13962,"date":"2017-02-13T22:54:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T21:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/?p=13962"},"modified":"2017-02-16T16:50:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T15:50:22","slug":"israel-imri-ziv-is-opvolger-van-hovi-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/landen\/il\/israel-imri-ziv-is-opvolger-van-hovi-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Imri Ziv is successor of Hovi Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #D49D6E; font-weight: bold;\" class=\"post-p-lead\">Unfortunately this article is not available in English and has been automatically translated. Please visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/\">homepage<\/a> for all English content or get an overview of all English articles <a href=\"http:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/english\">here<\/a>. You can also request a translation by sending us an <a href=\"mailto:info@songfestival.be\">email<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight in Israel was an important choice made. The artist who will represent the country in the Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev was chosen in the national finals <em>The Next Star for Eurovision<\/em>. The lucky guy is Imri Ziv and won the ticket to Ukraine. \u00a0The 25-year-old Ziv was the last two years still backing vocalist for the Israeli delegation but promotes now so to the main stage.<\/p>\n<p>In the national final Israel won Imri Ziv <em>The Next Star for Eurovision<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>and will follow up as Israeli candidate for the Star Hovi song festival in Kiev. The show took several weeks to complete and went according to a kind of<em> X-Factor<\/em> K3 and<em> K3 zkt. Ziv<\/em> was clearly the audience favorite as the outcome was determined entirely by <em>televoting<\/em> . During the finale, however, was<strong> just the artist <\/strong>chosen. The song of Imri Ziv behind closed doors will be written. The <strong>finalists<\/strong> were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Imri Ziv<\/li>\n<li>The Beatbox Element<\/li>\n<li>Diana Golbi<\/li>\n<li>Julieta<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Can Mr Ziv Hovi Star in the final surpass?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMRI Ziv is made of stars in Israel and flies to Kiev<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":13383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[999,345,2121],"tags":[2807,254,2130,219,830,3098,229,2506,1162,3096,19,1834],"class_list":["post-13962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algemeen","category-il","category-kiev-2017","tag-esc","tag-eurosong","tag-eurosong-2017","tag-eurovisiesongfestival","tag-eurovision-song-contest","tag-imri-ziv","tag-israel","tag-kiev-2017","tag-rising-star","tag-rising-star-2017","tag-songfestival","tag-songfestival-2017"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["nl","fr","en"],"languages":{"nl":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"fr":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}