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The Eurovision Song Contest 2019 will be the 64th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. On 13 September 2018, the EBU announced Tel Aviv as the host city, with Expo Tel Aviv as the selected venue for the 2019 contest. The show will consist of two semi-finals on 14 and 16 May, and the final on 18 May 2019.
The 2019 contest will take place in Israel for the third time, after 1979 and 1999, following the country's victory at the 2018 edition with the song "Toy", performed by Netta Barzilai.
Forty-two countries will take part in the contest, with Bulgaria absent for the first time since 2015.
On 25 January 2019, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (IPBC/KAN) announced that four presenters will host the three shows: TV hosts Erez Tal and Assi Azar who work for the Israeli Channel 12, supermodel Bar Refaeli, and KAN host Lucy Ayoub, who was also the Israeli spokesperson at the 2018 contest. Tal and Refaeli will be the main hosts, while Azar and Ayoub would be hosting the green room.