Israel’s Eurovision entry says she has practised being booed

Lucy Manning

Special correspondent

Reporting fromBasel, Switzerland
EPA Israel's Yuval Raphael posing on the turquoise carpet during the opening ceremony of the 69th Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, SwitzerlandEPA

Yuval Raphael never dreamt she’d be at Eurovision.

The last major music event she attended was the Nova festival, in Israel, where she was nearly killed. On 7 October 2023, the singer fled the festival when Hamas gunmen started…

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