PM welcomes Tel Aviv as Eurovision host, says 2019 show will be ‘excellent’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praises the decision to hold next year’s Eurovision song contest in Tel Aviv, instead of Jerusalem.

“We are privileged to have the Eurovision in Israel. It will be held in Tel Aviv, and it will be an excellent Eurovision,” he says during a meeting with the visiting foreign ministers from Greece and Cyprus according to a statement.

“Tel Aviv is an international city, a vibrant city, and the whole world will see it and Israel,” he says.

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