Eurovision Song Contest
Israel will take part in the competition
The Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Sweden in 2024.
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The ESC will take place in Sweden next year. Israel will also be there, as has now been officially confirmed.
Israel will compete in the Eurovision Song Contest next year. The organizers of the music competition have now confirmed this according to Sky News. Artists from Iceland, among others, had previously called for a boycott of the competition in Malmö, Sweden, if Israel, which is waging war against the terrorist organization after Hamas’ terrorist attack in October, took part.
“It’s a competition for broadcasters – not for governments”
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which organizes the competition, told Sky News that Israel would take part and the country’s participation had been confirmed. “The Eurovision Song Contest is a competition for public broadcasters from across Europe and the Middle East,” the report said in a statement: “It is a competition for broadcasters – not for governments,” and the Israeli broadcaster has been participating for 50 years take part in the competition. The statement added that the Israel Broadcasting Corporation complied with all competition rules and could take part next year.
ESC final 2024 will take place in May
The EBU and the Swedish public television company SVT announced in July that the upcoming music competition would take place in Malmö. The final of the Eurovision Song Contest is scheduled to take place on Saturday, May 11, 2024. The two semi-finals will take place in the same week, on May 7th and May 9th.
The singer Loreen (40) was able to win the ESC again in 2023 with her song “Tattoo” and bring next year’s edition back to Sweden. She had already been successful at the ESC in Baku in 2012 with the song “Euphoria”.
Germany has not yet named an act for next year’s ESC. This will only be determined at the preliminary decision “Eurovision Song Contest – The German Final 2024”, which is scheduled to take place on February 16th in Berlin.