{"id":42948,"date":"2018-05-13T16:25:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T22:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=42948"},"modified":"2018-05-13T16:25:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T22:25:22","slug":"israel-wins-eurovision-song-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/israel-wins-eurovision-song-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel wins Eurovision song contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 For the fourth time in its four decades of participating in the Eurovision song contest, Israel has won the international competition.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42949\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Netta-Barzilai-at-Eurovision-1-resize.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42949\" class=\"wp-image-42949 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Netta-Barzilai-at-Eurovision-1-resize-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Netta-Barzilai-at-Eurovision-1-resize-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Netta-Barzilai-at-Eurovision-1-resize-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Netta-Barzilai-at-Eurovision-1-resize.jpg 880w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/198;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42949\" class=\"wp-image-42949 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Netta-Barzilai-at-Eurovision-1-resize-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Netta-Barzilai-at-Eurovision-1-resize-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Netta-Barzilai-at-Eurovision-1-resize-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Netta-Barzilai-at-Eurovision-1-resize.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-42949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Singer Netta Barzilai waves to the audience at Altice Arena in Lisbon after Israel\u2019s song \u201cToy\u201d is announced winner of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. (Pedro Gomes\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The song \u201cToy\u201d by Netta Barzilai, 24, secured Israel\u2019s victory at the Eurovision contest this year at the Finals Saturday in Lisbon, Portugal. The victory means Israel will host the event next year.&nbsp;Barzilai\u2019s song is a warning to a boy not to treat her like a toy.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s song, which is performed in English, has consistently been ranked on betting sites in first place or at least in the top three at the festival, a hugely popular phenomenon in Europe that combines elements of \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d-style song competitions and the Olympic Games. The score is determined by points given by the contest\u2019s official juries and by callers.&nbsp;\u201cToy\u201d won the match with a combined score of 529 points, giving it a huge lead of 93 points over Cyprus, which came in second, and a 187-point lead over Austria in third place. The score for \u201cToy\u201dwas the fourth-highest in the contest\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>The track by Barzilai, whose stage name is Netta, is about female empowerment and was inspired by the #MeToo movement, she has said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe song has an important message,\u201d she is quoted as telling the Daily Express before winning the contest, which features artists from dozens of countries in and around Europe, plus Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe awakening of female power and social justice, wrapped in a colorful, happy vibe,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Netta and indicated that the festival next year will be hosted in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have brought the State of Israel a lot of pride. Next year in Jerusalem!\u201d wrote Netanyahu on Twitter to Netta.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the chicken noises she makes during the song, she told Wiwibloggs: \u201cThe noises are supposed to imitate the voices of a coward \u2014 a chicken. Someone who doesn\u2019t act the way he\/she feels and treats you like a toy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The three Israeli songs that had won the contest before \u201cToy\u201d \u2014 \u201cA-Ba-Ni-Bi\u201d in 1978, \u201cHallelujah\u201d in 1979 and Dana International\u2019s \u201cDiva\u201d in 1998 \u2014 were sung in Hebrew.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Israel%20wins%20Eurovision%20song%20contest\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,7137],"tags":[9380,7834,8790,8795,9381,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42950,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42948\/revisions\/42950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}