Boaz Mauda is the winner of "A Star is Born 5" – the Israeli version of "American Idol." The finals held Wednesday night broke a rating record with over 1 million viewers.
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| And the winner is... (Video courtesy of Channel 2) |
Hundreds of thousands of SMS messages clogged the cellular communication highway, most had one message: Boaz Mauda is the Star. Mauda, a 20-year-old soldier, 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.
Marina Maximilian won second place with 27 percent of the votes and Shlomi Barel came third with 23 percent.
Mauda singing to his mother (Photo: Courtesy of Channel 2)
Merav Crystal contributed to the report.
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