{{Short description|Israeli television and radio host (born 1961)}} {{Expand Hebrew|topic=bio|date=October 2022}} {{BLP sources|date=October 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Erez Tal | native_name = ארז טל | native_name_lang = he | image = Erez Tal at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final Dress Rehearsal.jpg | caption = Tal hosting the Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv in 2019 | birth_name = Erez Moshe Ben-Tulila | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1961|7|27|df=yes}} | birth_place = Tel Aviv, Israel | education = Ironi Alef High School | occupation = TV and radio personality | years_active = 1983–present | spouse = {{marriage|Gili Levi|21 April 2005}} | children = 2 daughters }} '''Erez Moshe Tal''' ({{langx|he|ארז טל}}; born 27 July 1961) is an Israeli television host.
==Early life== Born as '''Erez Moshe Ben-Tulila''' in Tel Aviv, Israel, to Jewish parents. His father, Aharon Ben-Tulila, immigrated from Algeria, whereas his mother Edna is Israeli-born. His family Hebraized its surname to '''Tal''' (dew in Hebrew) when he was four years old.{{cn|date=October 2022}}
==Career== [[File:Bigbrother fina S01 - israel (3117379821).jpg|thumb|Tal (left) hosting the Israeli version of ''Big Brother'' with Assi Azar in 2008.]] His first hit program was ''Ma Yesh?'' ("What's Up?"), broadcast on Galatz, Israel's IDF Radio, where he started his partnership with Avri Gilad.{{cn|date=October 2022}} Tal and Gilad co-hosted TV show ''Ha'olam Ha'erev'' (The World Tonight) in the early 1990s, broadcast on the then-experimental Channel 2.{{cn|date=October 2022}} When Channel 2 became Israel's first commercial television station, Tal hosted and produced the Israeli edition of ''Wheel of Fortune'', and later devised two different program formats: ''The Vault'' that was sold to several foreign TV stations, and ''The Brain''.{{cn|date=October 2022}}
In 2008, he hosted the Israeli version of the reality show, ''Big Brother'', named ''HaAh HaGadol''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Keshet Condemns Big Brother Contestant's Group Sex Claim|url=https://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/keshet-condemns-big-brother-contestant-s-group-sex-claim-1.258235|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301103843/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/keshet-condemns-big-brother-contestant-s-group-sex-claim-1.258235|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 1, 2012|work=Haaretz|date=26 November 2008|language=en}}</ref>
Tal also participates in comedy programs: ''Only in Israel'', which he created,<ref name=light>{{cite news| url = https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2166359.stm | title = Israeli show makes light of conflict | access-date = August 9, 2010 | date = August 2, 2002 | work = BBC News Online}}</ref> opposite Orna Banai, and ''Night Club'' with Maya Dagan and others.{{cn|date=October 2022}} He introduced several comedians to wider audiences, notably Assi Azar who co-hosted with him the successful reality format ''HaAch HaGadol''; and Guri Alfi who acted in many comedy shows such as ''Shiduray Ha'mahapecha'' (The Revolution Broadcast).{{cn|date=October 2022}}
Tal was one of the Israeli commentators (alongside Idit Hershkowitz) for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 grand final, the first time the country provided a TV commentary for Eurovision.{{cn|date=October 2022}}
Tal hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv alongside Bar Refaeli, Assi Azar and Lucy Ayoub.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Zwart|first1=Josianne|title=Bar Refaeli, Erez Tal, Assi Azar & Lucy Ayoub to host Eurovision 2019!|url=https://eurovision.tv/story/hosts-2019-bar-refaeli-erez-tal-assi-azar-lucy-ayoub|website=eurovision.tv|access-date=25 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wiwibloggs.com/2019/01/25/meet-the-eurovision-2019-hosts-bar-refaeli-erez-tal-assi-azar-and-lucy-ayoub/230316/|title=Meet the Eurovision 2019 hosts: Bar Refaeli, Erez Tal, Assi Azar and Lucy Ayoub|date=25 January 2019|website=wiwibloggs.com|access-date=26 January 2019|archive-date=31 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731032600/https://wiwibloggs.com/2019/01/25/meet-the-eurovision-2019-hosts-bar-refaeli-erez-tal-assi-azar-and-lucy-ayoub/230316/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==See also== * List of Eurovision Song Contest presenters
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{commons category-inline}} *{{IMDb name|id=0847758}} *{{Instagram|Ereztal}}
{{S-start}} {{Succession box | before = {{flagicon|Portugal}} Sílvia Alberto, Daniela Ruah, Catarina Furtado and Filomena Cautela | title = Eurovision Song Contest presenter|with=Bar Refaeli, Assi Azar and Lucy Ayoub | years = 2019 | after = {{flagicon|Netherlands}} Edsilia Rombley, Chantal Janzen, Jan Smit and Nikkie de Jager <small>(2021)</small> }} {{S-end}} {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tal, Erez}} Category:1961 births Category:Living people Category:Israeli game show hosts Category:Israeli radio presenters Category:Israeli people of Algerian-Jewish descent Category:Mass media people from Tel Aviv Category:Israeli Mizrahi Jews Category:Ironi Aleph High School (Tel Aviv) alumni