Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014
Before Eurovision
Before Eurovision
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### Artist selection

On 11 January 2014, IBA announced that [Mei Finegold](/wiki/Mei_Finegold "Mei Finegold") was selected as the Israeli representative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2014\. A special committee consisting of music industry professionals considered sixteen artists, of which [Maya Bouskilla](/wiki/Maya_Bouskilla "Maya Bouskilla") and Ella Doron were highly considered before Finegold was ultimately selected. The members of the committee were Bracha Ofir (retired judge), Izchak Sonnenschein (Head of Israeli Eurovision delegation), Udi Bezalel (delegation member), Moshe Morad (director of 88FM), Tali Katz ([Channel 1](/wiki/Channel_1_%28Israel%29 "Channel 1 (Israel)") music editor), Tal Argaman (music editor at 88FM), Leon Kichler (former vice president of OGAE Israel), Liron Ben\-Shimon (musician and producer) and Ofer Shafrir (show director). It was also announced that a national final titled *Kdam Eurovision 2014* featuring three songs would take place to select her song.

### Kdam Eurovision 2014

IBA opened the public song submission following the announcement of Finegold as the selected artist with the deadline on 28 January 2014\. 78 submissions were received at the close of the deadline, which were subsequently evaluated by the committee that shortlisted ten songs. Two songs were ultimately chosen from the public submissions while one was provided by Finegold for the competition. The official music videos for the three songs, all directed by Lior Nordman, were presented on 27 February 2014 during a special presentation programme broadcast on [Channel 1](/wiki/Channel_1_%28Israel%29 "Channel 1 (Israel)") and the public was able to vote for their favourite song through SMS until 4 March 2014\. The winning song, "Same Heart", was selected solely by the public vote and revealed during a special televised broadcast on Channel 1 on 5 March 2014\.

| Draw | Song | Songwriter(s) | Televote | Place |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

 1 |
 "Same Heart" |
 Rami Talmid |
 55% |
 1 || 2 | "Nish'eret Iti" () | Loren de Paz, Chen Metzger Eder | 40% | 2 |
| 3 | "Be Proud" | Mei Finegold | 5% | 3 |


Who were the members of the special committee that selected Mei Finegold?