New Day Will Rise (Yuval Raphael song)

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"New Day Will Rise" is a song by Israeli singer Yuval Raphael. Written by Keren Peles and produced by Tomer Biran [he], it is set to be released on 9 March 2025. The song will represent Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025.^[1]

Israel's broadcaster for the Eurovision Song Contest, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (IPBC/Kan), utilized the reality singing competition HaKokhav HaBa, to select its singer for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. At the end of the competition, Yuval Raphael emerged victorious on 22 January 2025, winning the right to represent Israel in the contest. The songwriting process for the broadcaster's entry had started three weeks earlier, with an internal committee headed by Barak Itzkovitch [he] (director of Kan's music stations) listening to approximately 54 submissions.^[2]

The selection took place in two rounds. In the first round, the 54 submissions were listened to and a voting round was held among the committee members and the three best songs were chosen. Afterwards, Raphael recorded new versions of the songs in her own voice. The committee members gathered again and listened to the three songs, this time in Raphael's voice, and another voting round was held. The song "New Day Will Rise", written by Keren Peles and produced by Tomer Biran [he], was unanimously chosen by all committee members.^[3] Its lyrics were then sent for approval to the European Broadcasting Union, which is in charge of the Eurovision Song Contest. On 17 February, it was announced that the song had been approved.^[4] Its music video was filmed on 25–26 February.^[5]