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Israel’s 2025 Eurovision Representative, Yuval Raphael, Is a Nova Massacre Survivor

JL;DR SUMMARY Yuval Raphael, Israel's 2025 Eurovision representative, is notably a survivor of the devastating Nova festival massacre, where she narrowly escaped death by hiding under bodies for safety. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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MusicPtsdPeaceNova MassacreRepresentationSurvivorEurovisionYuval RaphaelValery Hamaty

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Israel
"Yuval Raphael had spent time on very different platforms: at the Israeli Knesset and the UN, where she shared her experience as a survivor of the Nova massacre on October 7."
Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
"Raphael lived with her family in Switzerland as a child, and she said that representing Israel at the competition in Basel (Switzerlands Nemo won last years contest, making his country this years host) would feel like coming full circle in many ways."

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