The YouTube website has a performance of the song Balalaika by Ilanit which is claimed to have been the prospective Israeli entry for 1984.

However, Lebanese law does not allow recognition of Israel, and consequently Lebanese television did not intend to transmit the Israeli entry.

The most direct risk of an Arab exit is an Israeli entry: the very response that Mr Hussein has been hoping for.

Ilanit came fourth in the first ever Israeli entry.

Segev sat as a judge for selecting of the 2012 Israeli entry to Eurovision Song Contest.

Despite earlier statements that it had an inappropriate message and might be banned from the 2007 contest, Eurovision Song Contest organizers approved the Israeli entry.

This was the first Israeli entry for which the official title did not contain at least some Hebrew.

The Israeli entry was selected through an internal selection, organised by the Israeli broadcaster IBA.

In 1987 she co-hosted the event and in 1988 she was selected by IBA to sing the Israeli entry.

As the contest was held in Munich, Germany, the scene of the 1972 Olympic's massacre, there was considerable patriotism involved with the Israeli entry.