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| By: Israel Insider staff |
| Published: August 30, 2007 |
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Israeli singer Boaz Mauda was voted winner of the fifth season of "A star is Born," Israel's version of "American Idol," amid an audience of 40,000 who turned up to see the show's three finalists perform at the Volume Music Festival Wednesday night.
The completely digital broadcast was the first ever in Israel to be produced outdoors, and not in a studio. According to Ynetnews, the show's final broke the record of over a million viewers, with hundreds of thousands of text messages determining the vote.
Of the three finalists of "Kochav Nolad," as the show is called in Hebrew, Mauda grasped first place with %50 percent of votes, Marina Maximillian Blumin came in second with 27%, and Shlomi Barel took third with 23%.
Ynetnews described Mauda, saying that he was "the man with the butter voice and the muscular forearms, was one of the least controversial contestants and nicknamed a 'Yemenite Cowboy' because of his job as a goat herder in his home village of Eliyakim."
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