{"id":446062,"date":"2026-05-17T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T10:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/446062\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T10:20:09","slug":"who-awarded-israels-noam-bettan-points-at-70th-eurovision-in-vienna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/446062\/","title":{"rendered":"Who awarded Israel’s Noam Bettan points at 70th Eurovision in Vienna?"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a final score of 343, Israel\u2019s Noam Bettan<\/a> took second place at the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria, with his song, Michelle.<\/p>\n

Despite mass calls to boycott due to Israel\u2019s participation, which led to several countries withdrawing from the contest entirely, Israel scored a whopping 220 points from the public televote, including securing the maximum 12 from six separate countries.<\/p>\n

Israel won the televote in Finland, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany<\/a>, Azerbaijan, and France<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The grand jury awarded Israel 123 points, twice as many as Yuval Rephael\u2019s New Day Will Rise from last year. Poland\u2019s grand jury awarded Israel its coveted \u2018douze points\u2019 \u00a0(12 points).<\/p>\n

\"NoamNoam Bettan, representing Israel, reacts in the Green Room during the first semi-final of the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, in Vienna, Austria, May 12, 2026. (credit: REUTERS\/LISA LEUTNER)Who voted for Israel?<\/p>\n

Here is the full breakdown of points awarded to Israel at this year\u2019s Eurovision:<\/p>\n

Estonia: Televote, 1<\/p>\n

Luxemburg: Televote, 1<\/p>\n

Latvia: Televote, 4<\/p>\n

Montenegro: Televote, 4<\/p>\n

Greece: Televote, 5<\/p>\n

Croatia: Jury, 5<\/p>\n

Norway: Jury, 1; Televote, 5<\/p>\n

Rest of the world: 6 points<\/p>\n

Czechia: Jury, 2; Televote, 5<\/p>\n

Sweden: Televote, 7<\/p>\n

San Marino: Jury, 4; Televote, 3<\/p>\n

Cyprus: Televote, 8<\/p>\n

Italy: Televote, 8<\/p>\n

Lithuania: Jury, 8<\/p>\n

Serbia: Jury, 4; Televote, 4<\/p>\n

Belgium: Jury, 1; Televote, 8<\/p>\n

Denmark: Jury, 7; Televote, 2<\/p>\n

UK: Televote, 10<\/p>\n

Malta: Jury, 4; Televote, 7<\/p>\n

Bulgaria: Jury, 7; Televote, 5<\/p>\n

Finland: Televote, 12<\/p>\n

Portugal: Televote, 12<\/p>\n

Romania: Jury, 6; Televote, 6<\/p>\n

Armenia: Jury, 7; Televote, 7<\/p>\n

Switzerland: Jury, 2; Televote, 12<\/p>\n

Poland: Jury, 12; Televote, 2<\/p>\n

Austria: Jury, 8; Televote, 7<\/p>\n

Germany: Jury, 3; Televote, 12<\/p>\n

Ukraine: Jury, 10; Televote, 5<\/p>\n

Azerbaijan: Jury, 4; Televote, 12<\/p>\n

France: \u00a0Jury, 4; Televote, 12<\/p>\n

Georgia: Jury, 6; Televote, 10<\/p>\n

Albania: Jury, 8; Televote, 10<\/p>\n

Moldova: Jury, 8; Televote, 10<\/p>\n

Israel has been a major player in Eurovision<\/a> since it began taking part in 1973, and has won four times, in 1978, 1979, 1998, and 2018. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Israel has ranked in the top 5 for the past several years, with Yuval Rephael\u2019s New Day Will Rise, Eden Golan\u2019s Hurricane, and Noa Kirel\u2019s Unicorn all receiving high marks from the public over juries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a final score of 343, Israel\u2019s Noam Bettan took second place at the 70th Eurovision Song Contest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12513,1503,10495,100601,10570,85,46,43],"class_list":["post-446062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-boycott","tag-culture","tag-eurovision","tag-eurovision-broadcasting-union","tag-eurovision-song-contest","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}