Lucy Ayoub

[1][2] Ayoub co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 alongside Assi Azar, Bar Refaeli and Erez Tal.

[4][5] Her paternal grandmother was the daughter of Palestinian refugees who fled to Lebanon during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War She was left in a convent in Israel, and later was adopted by a wealthy Arab-Christian woman named Lucy Khayat.

In the same year, she joined the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (IPBC) and started writing and submitting videos.

Ayoub was the jury spokesperson for Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018,[8] where her presentation caused a media reaction due to the response of the Israeli Minister of Culture and Sport, Miri Regev, who protested against the fact that Ayoub spoke Arabic during the live broadcast and did not mention Jerusalem.

[3][10] Before that, on 28 January, Ayoub and Azar hosted the contest's semi-final allocation draw at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Ayoub hosting the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv