Despite boycott calls, Israel cleared to participate in Eurovision 2025
Will Israel participate in Eurovision 2025? As far as the new contest director is concerned - there is no question at all.
Israel's representative to the Eurovision Song Contest, Yuval Raphael, a survivor of the deadly October 7 2023 attack by Hamas on the Nova festival in Israel's south, sings on a stage in this handout photo obtained by Reuters on January 23, 2025.(photo credit: ORTAL DAHAN ZIV/KESHET 12/VIA REUTERS)