During the week, Israel hosted a wonderful Eurovision promotional event.
18 delegations enjoyed 2 days of stay in Israel.
They stayed in hotels near the lovely beach of Tel-Aviv:

🇸🇮 Slovenia: Joker Out – Carpe Diem
🇪🇸 Spain: Blanca Paloma – Eaea
🇮🇪 Ireland: Wild Youth – We Are One
🇲🇹 Malta: The Busker – Dance (Our Own Party)
🇬🇪 Georgia: Iru – Echo
🇩🇰 Denmark: Reiley – Breaking My Heart
🇦🇱 Albania: Albina and Familja Kelmendi – Duje
🇨🇿 Czechia: Vesna – My Sister’s Crown
🇪🇪 Estonia: ALIKA – Bridges
🇲🇩 Moldova: Pasha Parfeni – Soarele si Luna
🇸🇲 San Marino: Piqued Jacks – Like an animal
🇱🇻 Latvia: Sudden Lights – Aijā
🇵🇱 Poland: Blanka – Solo
🇭🇷 Croatia: LET 3 – Mama ŠČ!
🇱🇹 Lithuania: Monika Linkytė – Stay
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan: TuralTuranX – Tell Me More
🇺🇦 Ukraine: Tvorchi – Heart of Steel
🇷🇸 Serbia: Luke Black – Samo mi se spava

They were joined by 8 special guests:

Katrina (Eurovision 1997 winner, UK)
Israel: Ilanit (Eurovision 1973, Israel) – The first Israeli representative. This year it will be 50 years since her participation.
Israel: Shlomit Aharon (Israel 1981, part of “Hakol Over Habibi”)
Israel: Mei Finegold (Israel 2014)
Israel: Imri Ziv (Israel 2017)
Israel: Eden Alene (Israel 2020, 2021)
Ireland: Johnny Logan – Eurovision 1980 and 1987 winner, Ireland 1992 writer
France: Anne-Marie David – The singer won Eurovision 1973 as Luxemburg‘s representative and represented France at Eurovision 1979

Some of them took lovely photos with the sunny view of Tel Aviv:

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Gala Night [The Green Carpet]

The host of the show was Imri Ziv, who represented Israel at Eurovision 2017

Thereafter, the delegations have arrived at the carpet one by one:

Albina and Klemdni Family seemed united as always:

Tvorchi and Reiley:

Doron, ESCBEAT representative meeting Slovenian Joker Out:

Flamenco queen from Spain has caught the attention of all the guests :

Not only Blanca, but also Blanka took a flight to Israel:

The phenomenal Israeli singer Noa Kirel attended the party as well:

Moving on to Luke Black (Serbia), who wore it the elegant way:

Former Eurovision star Pasha Parfeni, from Moldova, attended the event with his wife and his iconic flute player:

Some bands joined the party as well and brought their special energy to the event!

Wild Youth (Ireland) prove that after all, we are one:

Let 3 (Croatia) continue their unique style from “Dora”:

The talented energetic guys from Malta put a smile on our faces:

San Marino hopeful Piqued Jacks turned out to be one of the fashion icons of the event:

Vesna from Czechia chose love over power:

Sudden Lights have shed the carpet with their inner indie light:

From one Baltic country to another: It is Monika from Lithuania:

Completing the Baltic line-up is Alika from Estonia:

Twins Tural and Turan attend their first pre-party:

Last but not least it is Iru from Georgia, reminding us that life is love

Doron, represented ESCBEAT in the pre-party:

Tree Planting

As part of the important message of saving our planet, the production wanted each one of the artists to leave a souvenir in Israel – A tree named after their name.
The artists arrived to the Ben Shemen forest, where they have been guided by the KKL representaitves.

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The Show

Hosting the show were Dafna Dekel and Sigal Shachmon.
Both were part of the trio who hosted Eurovision 1999 in Jerusalem

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However, you can watch some unofficial content on YouTube:
The spectacular show took place at the Tel Aviv Port, in the Hangar 11 venue.
The full show will be broadcast on Saturday.

Watch the Flag Parade here: