Dana International winning the contest with 270 points with "Ding Dong". The UK X Factor (2013) In 2013 he entered the tenth series of the United Kingdom version of The X Factor. In the room auditions of X Factor, he sang Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble", got 4 yeses and reaching the Arena stage of live auditions, where he sang Take That song "Back for Good" mixed with Cher Lloyd's "Want U Back" as back track. He got 3 yes votes from Nicole Scherzinger, Sharon Osbourne and Louis Walsh, with Gary Barlow from Take That being the only dissenting vote. Aharoni reached the bootcamp stage, where he sang "Drive By" alongside candidates Lee Lambert and Ryan Davies. All including Aharoni were sent home by their mentor Louis Walsh. He failed to make it to "judges' houses" (final 24) with Walsh claiming that he was just OK, but not sufficient to be included in his category. Following his elimination in the UK competition, it was announced later in 2013 that Chen will be hosting the Israeli version of The Xtra Factor (in Hebrew: מבזק האקס) on an Israeli channel. Crazy EP international English release (2013–2014) On 14 October 2013 Chen released his first English-language single "Crazy" for Pre-order on iTunes. The song picked to No. 3 on the Israeli songs chart and officially released on 20 October 2013. The follow-up single from the EP was "Love Suicide" that topped the iTunes downloads chart for a full week. HaKokhav HaBa (2017-2018) Aharoni is competing in the fifth season of the show HaKokhav HaBa L'Eurovizion (meaning "The Next Star for Eurovision"), in a bid to represent Israel in 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. The qualification show started in October 2017 and hosted by Assi Azar and Rotem Sela and a judging panel composed of Asaf Amdursky, Keren Peles, Harel Skaat (2010 Israeli Eurovision entrant) and Static & Ben-El Tavori. All shows in the competition are broadcast on Channel 2 and Keshet 12 as well as online via mako.co.il. Chen Aharoni auditioned to episode 2 of the show broadcast on 31 October 2017 with an interpretation of the Miley Cyrus song "Wrecking Ball". He got approval of all four judges and an approval rating of 94% being the second highest approval rate among the 25 candidates with only Yafit Casay exceeding him with a 95% score. Aharoni moved to the promotion round as