After the song, a vote is taken among judges whether to transfer the applicant to the test stage facing the audience at home.

[citation needed] Key: Previous Latest   Replaced This first season of Rising Star was hosted by Assi Azar with co-host Esti Ginzburg.

In order:[citation needed] The winner of season two would represent Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015.

In order: Kobi Marimi won the show with 383 points, beating runner-up Keteryah and third-placer Shefita.

The winner was Eden Alene, and a separate televised competition was held by Kan to select her Eurovision Song Contest 2020 entry, "Feker Libi".

In order: For this season, the show is not used to select the Israeli representative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 (The X Factor Israel received this honor instead).

In order: On February 17, 2022, Static & Ben El Tavori retired from the show and Ran Danker replaced them.

Its format was scaled down due to the Israel–Hamas war, which began before production started and caused the season premiere to be postponed.

The American television network ABC began airing its first series of Rising Star in June 2014 from Los Angeles.

But following reported poor ratings on its early shows, it announced it was bringing Rising Star Germany scheduled final forward airing an extended one-day finale between 20.15 and 00.00 to decide the winning performer, rather than completing the full 10-episode scheduled season originally planned.

Canale 5 also bought the rights to an Italian version of the show, which was also canceled during development for unexplained reasons.