On 7 January 2007, IBA announced that the band Teapacks was selected as the Israeli representatives for the Eurovision Song Contest 2007. A special committee consisting of music industry professionals and members from IBA considered several artists, of which 2006 Swiss Eurovision entrant Liel and Michel Guriashvili were highly considered before Teapacks was ultimately selected. The members of the committee were Yoav Ginai (entertainment director of IBA), Yaakov Naveh (IBA artists representative), Dalia Cohen (musician and composer), Amnon Shiloni (director of Reshet Gimmel), Noam Gil-Or (editor and presenter at Reshet Gimmel), Bracha Rosenfeld (producer), Kobi Oshrat (composer), Yardena Arazi (1976 and 1988 Israeli Eurovision entrant), Haïm Ulliel (singer), Anastassia Michaeli (television presenter), Dafna Dekel (1992 Israeli Eurovision entrant) and Itzik Yehoshua (music editor at 88FM). It was also announced that a national final titled "Kdam Eurovision 2007" featuring four songs would take place to select their song.