(Aug. 25, 2026 \/ JNS)\n <\/p>\n
The Dutch public broadcaster that this year withdrew the Netherlands from the Eurovision Song Contest over Israel\u2019s participation said on Sunday that it would not handle the Netherlands\u2019 entry in 2027 either, for the same reason.<\/p>\n
AVROTROS, one of 13 public broadcasters in the Netherlands, cited as its reason how \u201cone participating country is still engaged in a large-scale military action.\u201d Ukraine, Russia and Azerbaijan are also involved in military campaigns, but according to NOS, another public broadcaster, AVROTROS\u2019s statement concerns Israel.<\/p>\n
NPO, the umbrella organization of all Dutch public broadcasters, could tap another broadcaster to organize the Dutch entry, but according to a statement will only \u201cconsider the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Netherlands was one of five countries that pulled out of the Eurovision this year, along with Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and Iceland.<\/p>\n
Israeli singer Noam Bettan won second place at the Grand Final in Vienna with his song \u201cMichelle.\u201d Bulgaria won, marking that country\u2019s first-ever Eurovision victory.<\/p>\n
Israel initially ranked 8th with the jury vote but strong audience support lifted its entry to second place overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Aug. 25, 2026 \/ JNS) The Dutch public broadcaster that this year withdrew the Netherlands from the Eurovision…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-595275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595275","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=595275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}