Kokhav Nolad
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Kokhav Nolad (meaning A Star Is Born) is an Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i reality television
Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...

 show searching for talented new vocalists based on the British Pop Idol
Pop Idol
Pop Idol is a British television series which debuted on ITV on 6 October 2001. The show was a talent contest to decide the best new young pop singer in the United Kingdom, based on viewer voting and participation. Two series were broadcast - one in 2001-02 and a second in 2003...

 and American Idol
American Idol
American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...

 model. Since its debut on Israeli Channel 2
Channel 2 (Israel)
Channel 2 is an Israeli commercial television channel.- History :In 1990, after 13 years of deliberations, the Knesset passed a law that paved the way for the establishment of commercial television in Israel. The goal was to enhance pluralism and create competition. Channel 2 began broadcasting on...

  in 2003, Kokhav Nolad has achieved great popularity and turned out many new musical stars. The show is hosted by Zvika Hadar
Zvika Hadar
-Biography:Zvi Fruchter was born in Beersheba, Israel, to Romanian Jewish family. As a child, he studied piano. Early in his career, he composed numbers for musicals.He first appeared on television as "Jojo" in Ha-Comedy Store...

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Summary

Season Year Winner Runner-up Third
One
May and August 2003
Ninet Tayeb  Shiri Maimon
Shiri Maimon
Shiri Maimon is an Israeli pop/R&B singer, TV show host and actress, who rose to fame as the runner-up in the TV show Kokhav Nolad. She represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005.-Early life:...

 
Shai Gabso
Shai Gabso
Shai Gabso is an Israeli singer. He won second place in the first season of Kokhav Nolad .-Biography:Shai Gabso was born on July 20, 1984 in Rishon Lezion. He became religiously observant at the age of twelve. Gabso's single Arim Roshi has been hailed as a patriotic anthem...

Two
February to August 2004
Harel Moyal
Harel Moyal
Harel Moyal is a popular young Israeli pop singer-songwriter and stage actor who won the second season of the Israeli television series Kochav Nolad...

 
Harel Skaat
Harel Skaat
Harel Skaat is an Israeli singer and songwriter. He represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with the song "Milim" ....

 
Adi Cohen
Three
March to August 2005
Yehuda Saado
Yehuda Saado
Yehuda Saado is an Israeli singer and the winner of the third season of the Israeli music competition program Kokhav Nolad.-Career:...

 
Michael Kirkilan Shir Biton
Four
May to September 2006
Jacko Eisenberg
Jacko Eisenberg
Jacko Eisenberg is an Israeli singer who won the fourth season of Kochav Nolad, the Israeli version of Pop Idol.-Biography:Eisenberg was born and raised in Netanya, Israel, to Miriam and Robert Eisenberg. When he was 10 years old, his father died of a heart attack. At the age of 13, he started...

 
Maya Rotman
Fifth
Kokhav Nolad 5
Kokhav Nolad 5 was the 5th season of the popular reality TV show Kokhav Nolad, which focused on finding the next Israeli pop star. It was hosted by Tzvika Hadar with judges Gal Uchovsky, Margalit Tzan'ani, Svika Pik,and Tsedi Tzarfati....

May 18 – August 29, 2007
Bo'az Ma'uda
Bo'az Ma'uda
Boaz Mauda is an Israeli singer and songwriter. He won the fifth season of Kokhav Nolad, the Israeli version of Pop Idol, and represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, finishing in 9th place....

 
Marina Maximilian Blumin  Shlomi Bar'el
Sixth
Kokhav Nolad 6
Kokhav Nolad 6 was the 6th season of the popular reality TV show Kokhav Nolad, which focused on finding the next Israeli pop star. It was hosted by Tzvika Hadar with judges Gal Uchovsky, Margalit Tzan'ani, Svika Pik,and Tsedi Tzarfati.-Male participants:...

May 25 – August 26, 2008
Israel Bar-On
Israel Bar-On
Israel Bar-On is an Israeli singer, who won Israel's "A Star is Born" song contest in 2008.Bar-On was born in Beersheba to a religious family. He won the final of Kokhav Nolad 6 contest on August 26, 2008, with 56% of the votes. On the show's finale, he performed an autobiographical song speaking...

 
Lee Biran Carmel Eckman
Seventh
Kokhav Nolad 7
Kokhav Nolad 7 is season 7 of an Israeli reality television competition aimed at finding new solo singing talent. It debuted on May 24, 2009, and was broadcast twice a week, ending August 30, 2009....

May 24 – August 30, 2009
Roni Dalumi
Roni Dalumi
Roni Daloomi is an Israeli singer. She won the final of Kochav Nolad 7 contest in August 2009.-Biography:Roni Daloomi was born and raised in Omer, Israel. She started singing at the age of twelve after seven years of dancing with the Bat Dor Dance Company in Beer Sheva. She participated in "Shir...

 
Vladi Blayberg Mei Finegold
Eighth
Kokhav Nolad 8
"Kokhav Nolad " started its eighth season in of May 2010. After the victory of Roni Dalumi last year when a female won the competition for the first time since Ninet Tayeb in the first season, 27 finalists were chosen in May following thousands of auditions, which were held in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem,...

April 22 – September 4, 2010
Diana Golbi
Diana Golbi
Diana Golbi is the eighth winner of Kokhav Nolad, the Israeli version of Pop Idol. Golbi is the third female participant to win the show .-Personal life:...

 
Idan Amedi Ohad Shraga'i
Ninth
Kokhav Nolad 9
Kokhav Nolad 9 is the 9th season of the popular reality TV show Kokhav Nolad, which focused on finding the next Israeli pop star. It is hosted by Tzvika Hadar with judges Margalit Tzan'ani, Tsedi Tzarfati and the Newest Miri Messika and Yair Nitzani...

April 2 – July 23, 2011
Hagit Yaso
Hagit Yaso
Hagit Yaso is an Israeli singer. She won the ninth season of Kokhav Nolad, an Israeli television show, similar to Pop Idol.-Early life:...

 
David Lavi Liron Ramati

Format

The format of Kokhav Nolad is similar to American Idol, Pop Idol and their spinoffs
Idol series
The British talent search television series Pop Idol has spawned spin-offs in 42 territories, in what is now referred to as the "Idols" format, as described by FremantleMedia...

, but it is independently produced and not a licensed adaptation. The contest is open to aspiring singers, most of them in their late teens and early 20s, who appear before a panel of judges, who evaluate their performances. The audience is then asked to vote for their favorite singer. In every round, whoever gets the lowest amount of votes leaves the competition until one is left, who is declared the winner. Kokhav Nolad was preceded by another program called Lo Nafsik Lashir, in which the participants competed in their knowledge of Hebrew songs
Hebrew language
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...

, not on the quality of their singing.

The season included a number of preliminary episodes in which open auditions were held across Israel. Immediately after that, the quarter final round started in which two or three competitors performed every week; the one who got the most votes moved on to the semi final round. The semi final was divided into two shows with 4-5 competitors in each show. The 3 who got the most votes went on to the finale.

Judges

The judges started in the second season, after a small change in the show format. The judge panel included Ricky Gal, Tsedi Tzarfati and Roni Brown. In the third season Svika Pick
Svika Pick
Svika Pick is an Israeli pop singer and composer.-Biography:Henrik Zvi Pick was born in Wrocław, Poland. He studied music at the Conservatory of Ramat Gan and started to perform at the age of 15.Pick was married to Israeli songwriter Mirit Shem-Or...

 replaced Ronny Braun. The fourth season had two new judges, Gal Ochovsky and Margalit Tzan'ani
Margalit Tzan'ani
Margalit Tzan'ani , also known as Margol, is an Israeli singer and television personality. Tzan'ani is famous for her repertoire of Israeli oriental music style with soul influences, as well as jazz, blues, rock, pop and Arab music.-Biography :...

, joined Tzarfati and Pick. Dana International
Dana International
Sharon Cohen , professionally known as Dana International is an Israeli pop singer of Yemenite Jewish ancestry. She has released eight albums and three additional compilation albums, positioning herself as one of Israel's most successful musical acts ever...

 joined the ranks in the 7th season and Pavlo Rosenberg
Pavlo Rosenberg
Pavlo Rosenberg is an Israeli singer.Pavlo Rosenberg was born in Argentina. His family immigrated to Israel when he was 6 years old...

 in the 8th season. In the 9th season the singer Miri Mesika
Miri Mesika
Miriam "Miri" Mesika is an Israeli singer and actress. She won several Israeli Female Singer of the Year awards. She has sold more than 100,000 copies of her albums in Israel.-Background:...

 and the musician Yair Nitzani
Yair Nitzani
-Biography:Yair Nitzani was born in Beersheba in 1958. After serving in the Israel Defense Forces as a broadcaster on Galei Zahal in the 1980s, he joined the rock group T-Slam as a keyboardist and vocalist...

 replaced Gal Ochovsky, Dana International and Pavlo Rozenberg.

Audition song

Since the 3rd season, each season of the program has had a theme song. The 3rd season theme was "Halomot Mitgashmim" ("Dreams do come true"), composed by Svika Pik and performed by the 3 finalists of Kokhav Nolad 2 (Harel Moyal
Harel Moyal
Harel Moyal is a popular young Israeli pop singer-songwriter and stage actor who won the second season of the Israeli television series Kochav Nolad...

, Harel Skaat
Harel Skaat
Harel Skaat is an Israeli singer and songwriter. He represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with the song "Milim" ....

 & Adi Cohen, Kokhav Nolad 4 had "Kol Kakh Harbe Shirim" ("So many songs"), composed by Yoni Bloch
Yoni Bloch
Yoni Bloch is an Israeli musician, song writer, composer, rock singer and hi-tech entrepreneur.- Early life :Bloch grew up in Beer Sheva and at the age of 17 moved with his family to Lehavim...

 and performed by the 3rd season winner, Yehuda Saado
Yehuda Saado
Yehuda Saado is an Israeli singer and the winner of the third season of the Israeli music competition program Kokhav Nolad.-Career:...

, the 5th season was brought up with "Kashe li lo lehitragesh" ("It's hard for me not to stress") with Kokhav Nolad 4 winner & runner up - Jacko Eisenberg
Jacko Eisenberg
Jacko Eisenberg is an Israeli singer who won the fourth season of Kochav Nolad, the Israeli version of Pop Idol.-Biography:Eisenberg was born and raised in Netanya, Israel, to Miriam and Robert Eisenberg. When he was 10 years old, his father died of a heart attack. At the age of 13, he started...

 & Maya Rotthman, Kokhav Nolad 5 was the same with "Mi haya ma'amin?" ("Who would believe?") from Keren Peles
Keren Peles
-Music career:Peles graduated from the Rimon music school. In 2005 she became famous for her songwiriting for Miri Mesika and Shiri Maimon.Her debut album, If This Is Life was released in July 2006 and was certified gold after selling 20,000 copies. Peles wrote all of the songs on the album...

 and performed by Boaz Mauda & Marina Maximillian Blumin
Marina Maximillian Blumin
Marina Maximilian Blumin , is an Israeli singer and actress. She was the runner up of the 5th season of Kokhav Nolad .-Early life:...

. For Kokhav Nolad 7, Israeli musician & singer Dudu Tassa made a theme named "Ratsiti Lashir" - simply translaed as "I wanted to sing". The final versions came up with 3 solo version of Kokhav Nolad 6 finalists - winner Israel Bar-On
Israel Bar-On
Israel Bar-On is an Israeli singer, who won Israel's "A Star is Born" song contest in 2008.Bar-On was born in Beersheba to a religious family. He won the final of Kokhav Nolad 6 contest on August 26, 2008, with 56% of the votes. On the show's finale, he performed an autobiographical song speaking...

, runner up Lee Biran and Carmel Eckman who took the third place. The 8th season's auditions song is "Achshav Tori (It's my turn now)" written by Mosh Ben Ari and is performed by season 7 winner Roni Dalumi
Roni Dalumi
Roni Daloomi is an Israeli singer. She won the final of Kochav Nolad 7 contest in August 2009.-Biography:Roni Daloomi was born and raised in Omer, Israel. She started singing at the age of twelve after seven years of dancing with the Bat Dor Dance Company in Beer Sheva. She participated in "Shir...

. The 9th season's auditions song is "Haderech Shelcha (Your way)" composed by Idan Amedi and is performed by Kokhav Nolad 8 winner & runner up - Diana Golbi
Diana Golbi
Diana Golbi is the eighth winner of Kokhav Nolad, the Israeli version of Pop Idol. Golbi is the third female participant to win the show .-Personal life:...

 & Idan Amedi.

First season

The first season of Kokhav Nolad ran between May and August 2003. The finale was held at the Nitzanim
Nitzanim
Nitzanim is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located between Ashkelon and Ashdod on the Nitzanim dunes, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof Ashkelon Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 343....

 beach in front of a live audience of 7,000 people. Ninet Tayeb won first place with the song "Yam Shel Dma'ot" (A Sea of Tears), Shiri Maimon
Shiri Maimon
Shiri Maimon is an Israeli pop/R&B singer, TV show host and actress, who rose to fame as the runner-up in the TV show Kokhav Nolad. She represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005.-Early life:...

 with the song "Don Quixote" was the runner-up, and Shai Gabso
Shai Gabso
Shai Gabso is an Israeli singer. He won second place in the first season of Kokhav Nolad .-Biography:Shai Gabso was born on July 20, 1984 in Rishon Lezion. He became religiously observant at the age of twelve. Gabso's single Arim Roshi has been hailed as a patriotic anthem...

 with the song "Esh" (Fire) got third place. Over 1.4 million votes were cast during the final.

Second season

The second season of Kokhav Nolad was held from February to August 2004. The final was broadcast on August 15, 2004 from Coca Cola Music Village on the coast of Nitzanim
Nitzanim
Nitzanim is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located between Ashkelon and Ashdod on the Nitzanim dunes, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof Ashkelon Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 343....

, in front of an audience of 7,500 people. Harel Moyal
Harel Moyal
Harel Moyal is a popular young Israeli pop singer-songwriter and stage actor who won the second season of the Israeli television series Kochav Nolad...

 won the contest with 862,368 votes, Harel Skaat
Harel Skaat
Harel Skaat is an Israeli singer and songwriter. He represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with the song "Milim" ....

 took second place with 806,292 votes, and Adi Cohen took third place with 254,926 votes. Almost 2 million votes were cast during the final.

Since Skaat won first place and Moyal second in the first semi-final against Harel Moyal, and since polls held at certain sites indicated that Harel Skaat would win, many were surprised when he did not. A controversy arose about the voting in the final, beginning with claims that the production company had forged the results and ending with claims that voters had used software to send in more votes for their candidate than was allowed by program regulations (250 votes per apparatus). The production staff denied all of these allegations. On Thursday, August 19, a small demonstration
Demonstration (people)
A demonstration or street protest is action by a mass group or collection of groups of people in favor of a political or other cause; it normally consists of walking in a mass march formation and either beginning with or meeting at a designated endpoint, or rally, to hear speakers.Actions such as...

 of about 20 Harel Skaat fans was held in front of the offices of Shidurey Keshet. The demonstrators demanded that they investigate the claims and retabulate the votes. Keshet Broadcasting reported that the matter was investigated and no irregularities were found.

Third season

The third season of Kokhav Nolad was held from March to August 2005. The final was held on August 29, 2005 in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...

 in front of thousands of people. Yehuda Sa'ado won first place with the song "Sadot Shel Irusim," getting 918,520 votes, Michael Kirkilan won second place with "Yesh BeLibi Kinor," getting 370,631 votes, and Shir Biton won third place with "Smakhot Ktanot," getting 322,288 votes. 1.6 million viewers tuned in to watch the winning moment.

Fourth season

The fourth season of Kokhav Nolad ran from May to September 2006. The final was held on September 7, 2006 at Volume Tel Aviv, in front of an audience of 40,000 people, attracting over a million viewers. Jacko Eisenberg
Jacko Eisenberg
Jacko Eisenberg is an Israeli singer who won the fourth season of Kochav Nolad, the Israeli version of Pop Idol.-Biography:Eisenberg was born and raised in Netanya, Israel, to Miriam and Robert Eisenberg. When he was 10 years old, his father died of a heart attack. At the age of 13, he started...

 won 1st place with 846,039 votes and Maya Rotman was the runner-up with 514,981 votes.

Fifth season

The fifth season of Kokhav Nolad was held in 2007. The final of Kokhav Nolad 5 was held on Golan Beach in the eastern side of the kinneret lake (in the west side is the city of Tiberias) on August 29, 2007. After the first semifinal, Zvika Hadar announced that Marina Maximillian Blumin had qualified. In the second semifinal Boaz Ma'uda won first place in his bracket. Chen Aharoni
Chen Aharoni
Chen Aharoni is an Israeli singer.-Career:Kokhav NoladHe came into fame after taking part in 2007 in season 5 of Kokhav Nolad structured on the international Idol series. He was eliminated after a showdown with Shlomi Bar'el before the finals...

 went into a head-to-head with Shlomi Bar'el, with Shlomi coming out as the victor. As such Marina, Boaz, and Shlomi were the final three contestants. a first for the series was the participation of Miriam Tukan
Miriam Tukan
Miriam Tukan , a Christian Arab singer from the Israeli village I'billin.Tukan is the first Arab participant of Kokhav Nolad, an Israeli song contest styled after American Idol, and the first to sing in Arabic on the show.In the course of her participation in the show, Tukan was praised for her...

, in the fifth season, becoming the first Arab
Arab citizens of Israel
Arab citizens of Israel refers to citizens of Israel who are not Jewish, and whose cultural and linguistic heritage or ethnic identity is Arab....

 participant of Kokhav Nolad.

Bo'az Ma'uda
Bo'az Ma'uda
Boaz Mauda is an Israeli singer and songwriter. He won the fifth season of Kokhav Nolad, the Israeli version of Pop Idol, and represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, finishing in 9th place....

 won with 50% of the vote, Marina Maximilian Blumin - 27% was runner and Shlomi Bar'el third with 23% of the vote.
Bar'el went on to sign a contract with Hed Arzi Music and Blumin with Helicon Records
Helicon Records
Helicon Records is a record label which was founded in Israel in 1985.Aside from being the label of many Israeli artists, Helicon is also the exclusive distributor of Snapper Music, EMI and Universal Music Group in Israel, which includes artists like Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Kanye West, Guns n'...

. In addition, Chen Aharoni
Chen Aharoni
Chen Aharoni is an Israeli singer.-Career:Kokhav NoladHe came into fame after taking part in 2007 in season 5 of Kokhav Nolad structured on the international Idol series. He was eliminated after a showdown with Shlomi Bar'el before the finals...

 and Adir Ohayon, reached deals with NMC Music
NMC Music
NMC Music is an Israeli record label. It was established in 1964 as a subsidiary company of CBS, and became independent in 1988.Among influential artist represented by NMC are:Mashina, Chava Alberstein, Ehud Banai and T-Slam.-External links:...

.

Ninth season

The auditions started in January
January
January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as New Year's Day...

 2011 and the televised season in April
April
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 2011. The winner was Hagit Yaso
Hagit Yaso
Hagit Yaso is an Israeli singer. She won the ninth season of Kokhav Nolad, an Israeli television show, similar to Pop Idol.-Early life:...

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