I feel like some context is in order on the #Eurovision results. People are gonna spin this to say that Eurovision fans love Israel. In reality, in the many often large sample size polls of fans in the leadup, Israel consistently got very low results. I have spent a lot of time in online and in person fan spaces and have seen very very few non-Israeli fans say they like the song and it had fairly mediocre streaming stats. A lot of Eurovision fans switch off the TV while the Israeli song is on. What has likely happened here is the Israeli government spends a LOT of money on ad campaigns encouraging people who don't normally watch Eurovision to tune in and cast a lot of votes. There was some evidence last year they paid teams to bulk purchase votes. I would not be surprised if there was jury bribery either.

(NOTE: This post is NOT an invitation to debate Israeli participation generally. Trust me when I say this is something a lot of us in the Eurovision community are troubled by and have wrestled with how to respond to)