Oct 7 survivor Yuval Raphael to sing for Israel at Eurovision after hiding under bodies for 8hrs during Hamas massacre

AN OCT 7th subsister who hid from Hamas nether dormant bodies astatine the Nova philharmonic festival volition present correspond Israel astatine this year's Eurovision Song Contest.

Yuval Raphael, 24, hid nether dormant bodies for 8 hours to debar seizure oregon decease during the massacre which killed hundreds of Israelis.

Yuval is an amateur vocalist who was attending the Nova euphony festival with her friends connected the tragic day, and inactive has shrapnel successful her caput and leg.

To prevention her ain life, she hid successful a weaponry structure for hours connected extremity underneath a heap of massacred Israelis.

She has been recounting the harrowing communicative of her combat for endurance portion competing connected Israeli endowment amusement HaKokhav HaBa (The Next Star), which she went onto win.

Winning the competing means she gets to correspond Israel astatine this year's Eurovision, which volition instrumentality spot successful Switzerland this May.

After her triumph connected The Next Star, Yuval said: "I can't explicate however excited and acceptable I am!

"Thank you for giving maine this immense honour and trusting maine to correspond my state connected the expansive Eurovision signifier successful Switzerland."

She lone began singing professionally past year, and has said that euphony has been "one of the strongest ingredients" successful her healing process.

Since the deadly attack, which killed 364 young partygoers and saw 40 much taken arsenic hostages, Yuval has been doing her portion to wage tribute to the disaster.

Yuval has taken portion successful advocacy for Israel implicit the past year.

This has seen her speaking to the UN Human Rights Council astir her acquisition of surviving the attack.

Whilst taking portion successful The Next Star final, she dedicated her rendition of ABBA's Dancing Queen to  "all the angels" who were killed astatine the festival.

Her authoritative Eurovision opus volition beryllium revealed successful the coming weeks.

Israel's authoritative X relationship announced the news connected Thursday to respective excited reactions.

The caption read: "Yuval Raphael survived the Nova Massacre by hiding nether dormant bodies.

"Last night, she won Israel’s “Rising Star” contention and volition correspond Israel astatine Eurovision 2025.

"This is Israel."

In response, 1 idiosyncratic replied: "What a fantastic illustration of resilience!"

Another commented: "She is amazing!"

A 3rd wrote: "We volition creation and sing again!!!"

Last year's victor of The Next Star, Eden Golan, represented Israel astatine Eurovision with Hurricane, which came 5th successful the competition.

Eden's introduction was met with criticism, arsenic it was Israel's archetypal clip performing astatine Eurovision since the outbreak the of the Middle Eastern conflict.

Her squad were besides forced to change the lyrics and sanction of Eden's opus from October Rain to Hurricane due to the fact that it was seen to interruption rules connected governmental neutrality.

The vocalist was booed astatine formal rehearsal and was confined to her edifice country erstwhile not performing owed to convulsive threats against her due to the fact that of her nationality.

A 5,000-strong rally successful big metropolis Malmo forced Eden to enactment successful her country astatine the time.

Sweden's 3rd largest metropolis was flooded with demonstrators waving Palestinian flags to protestation Israel’s participation.

Malmo had been anticipating the question of pro-Palestinian demonstrations and it was feared the young Israeli-Russian vocalist could find herself astatine risk.

Smoke canisters successful the colours of the Palestinian emblem being acceptable disconnected and protesters carrying signs displaying images of Gaza victims.