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ISRAELSTOCKHOLM 2016

Israel takes part in second semifinal

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Because the date of the first semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest next Tuesday 10 may, on an Israeli Memorial Day falls in the Jewish calendar, the EBU the country automatically allowed to participate in the second semifinal, on Thursday 12 May.

It is not the first time that the country gets an exception by the EBU for the sake of a national day of remembrance.

Further decides that just like in 2013, when the contest also took place in Sweden, Denmark and Norway’s neighbours are not in the same semifinal will participate, in order to avoid columns fans from these countries at the same time, too many places in the Globe Arena.