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A subsister of the Nova euphony festival violent attack by Hamas Oct. 7, 2023, has channeled her therapeutic travel done euphony and connected Thursday secured the slot to correspond Israel astatine the Eurovision Song Contest successful Basel, Switzerland.
Yuval Raphael, 24, reportedly began singing arsenic a mode to cope with the trauma she endured aft she, 4 of her friends and astir 40 others attempted to fell successful a roadside weaponry structure adjacent Kibbutz Re'im after they fled the festival by car aft the attack.
Raphael, who was forced to fell nether the bodies of those killed successful beforehand of her for astir 8 hours earlier assistance arrived, has shared her story and described however Hamas terrorists repeatedly returned to the weaponry structure and opened occurrence connected those hiding inside.
Eventually, the terrorists began throwing grenades into the factual shelter, a communicative akin to what dozens endured that day, including American-Israeli Hersh Goldberg-Polin.
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"Music is 1 of the strongest ingredients successful my healing process," she said during the contention Thursday, The Times of Israel reported.
Despite having nary erstwhile acquisition arsenic a singer, Raphael secured her apical spot aft singing "The Writings connected the Wall" followed by a rendition of ABBA’s "Dancing Queen" dedicated to "all the angels" killed successful the October 2023 violent attack.
Raphael had antecedently garnered planetary attention not with her powerhouse dependable but by sharing her acquisition with the United Nations Human Rights Council successful a determination she said was not politically motivated but an effort to bring attraction to what guiltless civilians endured that tragic day.
Pictures are displayed connected the walls of a weaponry structure adjacent Kibbutz Be'eri successful confederate Israel, April 7, 2024, where, six months earlier, radical sought refuge earlier being killed during the deadly Oct. 7 onslaught connected Israel by Hamas terrorists from Gaza. (Reuters/Amir Cohen)
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Yuval Raphael, 24, won the slot to correspond Israel astatine the Eurovision euphony contention Jan. 23, 2023, aft having nary anterior singing experience. (Ortal Dahan Ziv)
"I privation to archer them the communicative of the country, of what I went through, of what others went through," she reportedly said up of the final. "I privation to archer the story, but not from a spot of seeking pity. I privation it to beryllium from a spot of lasting beardown successful the look of this and successful the look of the boos I’m 100% definite volition travel from the crowd."
Raphael’s comments were successful notation to the pushback she and different Israelis person faced during the planetary competitions, including successful 2024, pursuing the violent onslaught and consequent Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) operations successful Gaza.
Yuval Raphael, 24, won the slot to correspond Israel astatine the Eurovision euphony contention Jan. 23, 2023, contempt having nary anterior singing experience. (Ortal Dahan Ziv)
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Israel has faced calls to beryllium banned from the planetary competition, but the European Broadcasting Union has rejected the push, affirming that Eurovision is simply a non-political euphony event. The 2024 Israeli contestant, Eden Golan, faced anti-Israeli protests and had to beryllium granted a Shin Bet information detail.
Golan was besides required to alteration the sanction of her song, "October Rain," to "Hurricane" due to the fact that lawsuit officials believed it was excessively political, The Times of Israel reported.