Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003

Israel was represented in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 by Lior Narkis with the song "Milim shel ahava" ("Words for Love"), with lyrics in Hebrew, English, Greek, French and Spanish.

Eurovision Song Contest 2003
Country Israel
National selection
Selection processArtist: Internal Selection
Song: Kdam Eurovision 2003
Selection date(s)Artist: 15 November 2002
Song: 23 January 2003
Selected entrantLior Narkis
Selected song"Words for Love"
Finals performance
Final result19th, 17 points
Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Before Eurovision

Artist selection

On 15 November 2002, IBA announced that Lior Narkis was selected by a special committee as the Israeli representative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2003. Among artists considered by the selection committee, David D'Or was highly considered before Narkis was ultimately selected. Among the members of the committee were Yoav Ginay, Nili Carmel-Yonatan, Jojo Abutbul, Margalit Tzan'ani, Shalva Berti, Yankele Mendel, Eran Hadas and Izchak Sonnenschein.[1][2]

Kdam Eurovision 2003

The song that Lior Narkis represented Israel with in Riga was selected through a national final called Kdam Eurovision 2003. 250 songs were submitted by composers, which were subsequently evaluated by Narkis that selected four songs. The song titles were announced on 2 January 2003.[3]

The final took place on 23 January 2003 at the Ha'Oman 17 Nightclub in Jerusalem, hosted by Eden Harel and broadcast on Channel 1. All four competing songs were performed by Lior Narkis, and the winning song "Milim shel ahava" was selected by a combination of the votes from an expert jury of IBA representatives (40%) and votes from the public (60%).[4][5]

Final – 23 January 2003
Draw Song (English translation) Composer(s) Percentage Place
1 "God Bless the Universe" Uzi Chitmann, Yossi Gispan 13% 2
2 "Lo Rotze Lihyot Kokachav" (Don't want to be a star) Ilan Shahaf 3% 4
3 "Choopy Choopy" Yoni Ro'eh, Yossi Gispan 9% 3
4 "Milim shel ahava" (Words for love) Yoni Ro'eh, Yossi Gispan 75% 1

At Eurovision

Israel performed 13th at the 2003 Contest, following Spain and preceding Netherlands. After the voting concluded, Israel scored 17 points, placing 19th.[6]

Points awarded by Israel[7]
Points awarded to Israel[7]
12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points
5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point

References
  1. "Lior Narkis for the Eurovision Song Contest". Ynet (in Hebrew). 15 November 2002.
  2. Barak, Itamar (6 November 2002). "'IBA looks for a well-off experienced entrant'". Esctoday.
  3. Barak, Itamar (2 January 2003). "Lior Narkis chose his 4 songs for the Kdam". Esctoday.
  4. "ISRAEL NATIONAL FINAL 2003".
  5. "Israel".
  6. "Final of Riga 2003". eurovision.tv. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  7. "Results of the Final of Riga 2003". eurovision.tv. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
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