OGAE Israel celebrated the forthcoming Eurovision Song Contest with its annual party in Tel Aviv on Monday night. Israel's entrant to Belgrade, Boaz Mauda, attended the event, among other guests. Sweden got Israel's 12 points.
Israel's entrant to Belgrade, Boaz Mauda, was happy to meet the Eurovision Song Contest's fans, who all gave him a warm welcome. Mauda answered questions by the curious fans and was happy to be informed that dozens of them will be supporting him in Serbia. Oshrat Papir, Mauda's partner in the duet 'Butterflies' in the Kdam-Eurovision was also present. This was a nice coincidence, since it was also the occasion when the song was selected by the members to represent OGAE Israel at the OGAE Second Chance contest. IBA's head of delegation, Yoav Ginay,was another guest. He broke some good news to the crowd, when he declared that IBA will broadcast both the 2008 semifinals.
The club members and guests voted beforehand for both semifinals (voting for Israel was allowed) and the 20 qualifying countries were: Ukraine, Israel, Slovenia, Hungary, San Marino, Armenia, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iceland, Greece, Cyprus, Romania, Turkey, Russia, Norway, Bulgaria, Portugal, Poland, Switzerland and Sweden. The crowd then voted for the final. 4 countries finished last with null points, all of them consisting of the 'Big 4' countries: Spain, United Kingdon, France and Germany. The top 10 result is:
- 12 Sweden
- 10 Switzerland
- 8 Portugal
- 7 Norway
- 6 Turkey
- 5 Serbia
4 Israel (Came 7th but excluded from the overall OGAE's Scoreboard) - 4 Iceland
- 3 Albania
- 2 Hungary
- 1 Ukraine
The result leaves Sweden with a huge 83 point gap over second placed Switzerland. Serbia remain in third, clear of fourth placed Armenia who failed to pick up points from Israel, leaving Ukraine, Norway and Iceland in the race for the top four.
- You can see the breakdown of votes on the OGAE scorecard here
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After 28 OGAE juries have declared their scores, here is the updated scoreboard:
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Andorra 20
Israel 19
Albania 27
Latvia 1
Armenia 125
Lithuania 0
Azerbaijan 4
Malta 11
Belarus 5
Moldova 0
Belgium 20
Montenegro 0
Bosnia & Herzegovina 20
Netherlands 0
Bulgaria 19
Norway 116
Croatia 3
Poland 0
Cyprus 8
Portugal 86
Czech Republic 0
Romania 52
Denmark 15
Russia 58
Estonia 0
San Marino 6
Finland 0
Serbia 151
France 11
Slovenia 31
FYR Macedonia 0
Spain 0
Georgia 9
Sweden 265
Germany 17
Switzerland 182
Greece 59
Turkey 36
Hungary 8
Ukraine 121
Iceland 115
United Kingdom 0
Ireland 4
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