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The Eurovision Fun website reported that the issue of Israeli participation has been tabled until the EBU meets again in the ...
Israel's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest has long been a controversial subject amid the current conflict in Gaza ...
A European Broadcasting Union meeting in London ends without a vote on expelling Israel from Eurovision, granting the country ...
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Just minutes before Yuval Raphael went onstage to represent Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest final last weekend, the country’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, posted an appeal to his 1. ...
Israel has competed in Eurovision for more than 50 years and won four times. But last year’s event in Sweden drew large demonstrations calling for Israel to be kicked out of the contest over its ...
Eurovision's finals are set, with Israel, Lithuania, Greece, Armenia and Denmark among the countries that made it through Thursday's semi-finals. Eurovision Sets Finalists for 2025 Competition ...
It’s likely many in both Israel and the European Broadcasting Union are thanking JJ for saving them from what may have been a poison pill of a victory at the Eurovision Song Contest in Basel ...
Israel’s entry into the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest is slated to take the stage on for Thursday’s (May 15) second semi-final round amid tensions around the country’s participation in the ...
For Eurovision’s sake, let’s keep politics out of the song contest. It’s a shame this year’s contest is bogged down in anti-Israel controversy, says Clair Woodward – the frivolous get ...
If Eurovision were to expel Israel now, it would be the harshest penalty the continent has ever imposed on the nation – and it would be not for mass killing, but for meddling with pop music.
Israel's Eurovision participation has sparked protest due to the Gaza war. World. Yuval Raphael, a Hamas attack survivor, is representing Israel at Eurovision. May 16, 2025 11:31 AM ET. By .