Israel’s Noam Bettan will perform 3rd in the running order at the Eurovision Song Contest grand final tomorrow night.
With 36 hours to go, Israel is currently ranked 4th in the betting odds to win the competition, after Finland, Australia and Greece.
At last night’s second semifinal, Denmark, Australia, Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Albania, Czechia, Malta, Norway and Cyprus qualified for the grand final.
They will join Tuesday’s qualifiers — Israel, Finland, Greece, Sweden, Moldova, Croatia, Serbia, Poland, Lithuania and Portugal — as well as the “big four” countries, Germany, Italy, the UK and France, and host country Austria, in vying for the top prize.
An anti-Israel protest is slated for tomorrow in Vienna and expected to draw a couple of thousand activists, with police on high alert.
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