Israel has won Eurovision four times. This time it is strongly criticized by the countries that have traditionally given it a lot of points.
Eurovision are at the door, but the atmosphere is more gloomy than in the past.
The reason is the war in Gaza, which has resulted in the death or injury of approximately 26,000 children, two percent of the entire child population. Adding to the pain is Israel’s apparently soon-to-be-started ground operation, which is considered catastrophic for the civilian population.
Israel will appear in the second semi-final. You could guess that the representative of the country Eden Golan the score collected will make jaws drop.
Or will they come To surprise the countries that traditionally support Israel? We calculated the points given by different countries to Israel in the finals since 1973, i.e. since it has participated in the games. Only the judges’ votes were taken into account, because the audience’s votes were only used for a short time in the history of the show.
Votes have swept Israel to victory four times. The first victory came in 1978, and after that in 1979, 1998 and 2018.
As you can see from the table below, France has voted for Israel most often. Finland is eighth among those who voted for Israel most often.
However, the situation changes when we progress to the points. Finland has surprisingly been more generous to Israel than any other country in Eurovision. Although the juries of many countries have given Israel more points than Finland, Finland is number one in the average score given by the Finnish juries.
On average, Finland has given Israel’s representative 7.3 points. The second place in the statistics, France, has given an average of 6.9 points.
In addition to Finland, strong supporting countries have been France, Germany, Spain and Britain. All of them have condemned Israel’s actions in Gaza.
We’ll soon see how it goes this time.
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