 Pamberi pa2018 Contest, Israel yakanga yatora chikamu muEurovision Song Contest makumi mana kubva pakatanga kupinda muna 1973. Israel yakakunda makwikwi katatu: muna 1978 nerwiyo A-Ba-Ni-Bi rwakaitwa naIzhar Cohen neAlphabeta, muna 1979 nerwiyo Hallelujah rwakaitwa neMukaka neUchi uye muna 1998 nerwiyo Diva rwakaitwa naDana International. Kubvira pakatangwa semi-finals kuti pamanyorerwo Eurovision Song Contest muna 2004, Israeri, kusvikira panguva ino, vakakwanisa anokodzera kuti pakupedzisira kanomwe, kusanganisira vatatu pamusoro gumi zvabuda muna 2005 pamwe Shiri Maimon uye Hasheket Shenishar placing chechina, muna 2008 pamwe Boaz uye The Fire In Your Eyes placing repfumbamwe, uye muna 2015 pamwe Nadav Guedj uye Golden Boy placing repfumbamwe. Israeri yakanga yakundikana kukwanisa kusvika kumagumo kwemakore mana akatevedzana pakati pa2011 na2014 vasati vakwanisa muna 2015. Muna 2017, Imri Ziv akamiririra Israeri muKyiv, Ukraine nerwiyo Ndinonzwa Ndichirarama. Yakapedza iri yechi23 pane 26 yakapinda mumakwikwi okupedzisira. 