{"id":361484,"date":"2026-04-03T06:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/361484\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T06:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:06:15","slug":"israel-gets-its-eurovision-slot-and-fans-are-already-reading-into-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/361484\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel gets its Eurovision slot \u2014 and fans are already reading into it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bettan was drawn to compete in the second half of the first semifinal, and producers later placed Israel in the 10th slot. <\/p>\n<p>The countries set to appear in that semifinal are Moldova, Sweden, Croatia, Greece, Portugal, Georgia, Finland, Montenegro, Estonia, Israel, Germany, Belgium, Lithuania, San Marino, Poland and Serbia. The finalists from that round will advance to the grand final on May 16 in Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>In past years, Eurovision followers often attached importance to performing later in the broadcast because voting opened near the end of the show. But under the current system, the significance of running order is generally seen as less decisive than it once was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bettan was drawn to compete in the second half of the first semifinal, and producers later placed Israel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-361484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}