The final took place on 8 March 2011. Ten entries competed and the winner, "Ding Dong" performed by Dana International, was selected by a combination of the votes from five voting groups: three thematical jury groups (12%), an expert jury (40%) and a public vote (48%). The public vote that took place during the show was conducted through telephone and SMS. In addition to the performances of the competing entries, the show hosts Shiri Maimon and Aki Avni, the Voca People and Pnina Rosenblum and Tzioprale's Ansambel Group performed as the interval acts. The expert jury panel that voted in the final consisted of Amir Gilat (Head of IBA), Yaakov Naveh (IBA artists representative), Izhar Cohen (winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1978), Yoav Ginai (entertainment director of IBA), Noam Gil-Or (director of Reshet Gimmel), Rina Hachmon ("Kdam Eurovision" producer), Idit Ben Eliyahu (producer of the Channel 1 programme "Local Noise"), Gilad Segev (musician), Tal Barnea (former EBU project manager), Yossi Gispan (lyricist), David Krivoshei (musician) and Yuval Ganor (director of 88FM).