Ella-Lee Lahav

Ella-Lee Lahav was born in 2003 in Shoham

Ella-Lee Lahav was born Ella Lahav in Shoham on 2 June 2003, to Yannai and Hagit. She has two sisters. Her grandmother is the paleography researcher and font designer Ada Yardeni.

She attended the Shahaf democratic elementary school and a middle school in Shoham. In 2020 she left high school for external studies to focus on music. Before her television debut, she changed her name to Ella-Lee after consulting a numerologist.

In 2019 she joined Rising Star to the Eurovision and reached the final, finishing second with 182 points behind Eden Alene. Her debut single "Zot Ani" came out in June 2020 and reached first place on the Media Forest airplay chart. In September 2020 she was named breakthrough of the year in the annual Galgalatz and ynet Hebrew chart.

She enlisted in the IDF in February 2022 and served in a military band, finishing in February 2024. In 2022 she starred in the TeenNick series Shumkom. In 2023 she took part in Dancing with the Stars.