This year's Israeli representative to Eurovision is a fellow named Michael Ben David.
We have some history with MBDs and Eurovision, though this MBD does not look like that MBD so it probably is not the same person....
The issue though is, according to this article in JPost, that Israel, specifically MBD, is threatening to drop out of the competition. Whether it is posturing for more funds or real concerns about security, whatever, I dont really care. the interesting part though is that the article says the Australian delegation last year performed via "live on tape", which seems like it means they sent in a video or performed over zoom or something similar, because they could not attend in person (maybe because of Australia's super long lockdowns?).. So if this video thing, this live on tape thing, is a real thing and an option that can be used at times, maybe religious singers representing Israel will have that Shabbos "barrier" shattered and they can now compete....
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