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.
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After 28 OGAE juries have declared their scores, here is the updated scoreboard:
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 1. 3. 4. 2. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. – – – 18. 20. 21. 22. – 43. 42. 41. 40. 39. 37. 36. 35. 34. 33. 32. 31. – 29. 28. 27. – 25. 24. 38. |
