TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said his government would adhere to the Eurovision Song Contest guidelines, which may include nixing a plan to split public broadcaster Kan, in a bid to ensure the country would host the competition in 2019 as planned.
TEL AVIV – More than twenty thousand jubilant Israelis descended on Tel Aviv’s main square Monday night for a free victory concert by Netta Barzilai to celebrate her landslide triumph at the 63rd Eurovision song contest.
“Thank You President Trump.” That was the message projected onto the ancient walls of Jerusalem, together with the American and Israeli flags, on the eve of the formal transfer of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem on Sunday evening.
TEL AVIV — Israelis flocked to Rabin Square in central Tel Aviv in the wee hours of the morning to celebrate the country’s victory in Saturday’s Eurovision song contest where singer Netta Barzilai took first place.
JERUSALEM, Israel — Israel won the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday evening, bringing the coveted prize home on the day the country celebrates “Jerusalem Day,” in observance of the 51st anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem.
JERUSALEM – Israel will win this year’s Eurovision song contest with its entry, “Toy” sung by Netta Barzilai, bookies are predicting.
MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia’s main state television channel said Thursday it was dropping the Eurovision Song Contest from its schedules after Ukraine banned its performer from entering the country to take part.
TEL AVIV – While Israel’s Eurovision Song Contest entry, Hovi Star, secured 14th place in Saturday’s competition, an unofficial representative of the Jewish State, France’s contestant and Israeli citizen Amir Haddad, made it to number six.
(Reuters) – Ukraine’s Jamala struck a surprise gold in the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday with a song “1944” about war-time deportations of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union in one of the most controversial winners in the competition’s history.
The Times of Israel reports: Israel on Thursday night secured a spot in the Grand Final of the Eurovision song contest for the second consecutive year, thanks to the talents of entrant Hovi Star, singing “Made of Stars.”
TEL AVIV – A decision by European Broadcasters to ban the Palestinian flag from the upcoming Eurovision song contest has sparked outrage from Palestinians.
The Times of Israel reports: The Palestinian flag this week appeared on a list of banned banners for the Eurovision song contest, alongside the Islamic State group flag and others. Under Eurovision rules, regional flags, those belonging to federated states,
The flags of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will be banned from the arena at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, but the European Union and Rainbow flags will be permitted.
Israel’s Eurovision Song Contest entrant Hovi Star has spoken out about reportedly suffering a homophobic attack on a Eurovision trip to Russia. He was there to promote his Eurovision Song Contest entry, Made of Stars. The incident is said to have occurred with passport control officers and police at Moscow airport on arrival in Russia.
Belarusian singer Ivan plans to take next month’s Eurovision Song Contest by storm — performing completely naked with a wolf at his side. But his plan may prove too much even for a show known as an annual celebration of
The Times of Israel reports: Israelis voted Thursday for 29-year-old singer Hovi Star as their representative at the Eurovision song contest, choosing him from a selection of four hopefuls during a national televised competition. Star, whose real name is Hovev
After an “embarrassing” episode in which a European crowd protested Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine by booing Russia’s 2014 entry to the Eurovision Song Contest, event organizers have installed “sound reducers” designed to remove booing from the broadcast when Russian contestant Polina Gagarina takes the stage on Saturday.
The Eurovision Song Contest began in 1956 as a way to bring the nations of Europe together and sweeten relations between suspicious countries still recovering from World War II. Largely due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the contest has long included Asian participating nations, but this year, organizers intend to stretch the definition of Europe even further: to Australia.
