Musical and Television Career
In the 1970s, Yardena Arazi was a member of the female vocal trio Chocolat, Menta, Mastik along with Lea Lupatin and Ruti Holtzman. The group represented Israel in the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Emor Shalom ("Say Hello"), placing sixth. In 1979, the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) asked Arazi to co-host the Eurovision Song Contest in Jerusalem. Her connection with the song contest continued when she sang in the Israeli finals of 1982, 1983 and 1985. In 1987 she co-hosted the event and in 1988 she was selected by IBA to sing the Israeli entry. Arazi went to Dublin with the song Ben Adam ("Human Being"), which came in seventh. Arazi co-hosted Cafe Telad, a Channel Two morning chat show, in 1997–2005.
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