Eurovision officials debate Israel

Officials from a European Broadcasting Union toured Israel this week forward of a final preference of subsequent year’s Eurovision horde city.

As The Jerusalem Post reported final month, a 3 cities in a using to horde a foe are Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Eilat. Over a march of dual days, a EBU commission visited a 3 sites and met with internal officials.

“We are open to out of a box solutions, as we were in a past, if they would accommodate a schedule,” Jon Ola Sand, executive administrator of a EBU pronounced after completing his tour.

In Jerusalem, Sand and other EBU and KAN officials visited a Payis Arena, in Tel Aviv they toured a Tel Aviv Fairgrounds and in Eilat they met with a city’s emissary mayor, who explained a desirous construction plan. The commission is slated to leave Israel on Thursday dusk after days of meetings and deliberations.

While Sand’s matter indicated that Eilat is still in a running, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv are seen as a front-runners to horde a contest. The criteria KAN published final month note that it will give a “significant advantage” to a city charity an existent venue. The criteria also state that a EBU has a non-flexible schedule, that includes a good understanding of activity on a weekends – approaching a warning to Jerusalem, a city with a biggest Shabbat offence concerns.

However, a new brouhaha over a overpass construction on Saturday in Tel Aviv has proven that Shabbat will be an emanate no matter where a foe is held.

On Wednesday, a Eurovision Twitter comment posted: “A final preference on a horde city and venue for a #Eurovision Song Contest 2019 is approaching to be done soon!”

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A final preference on a horde city and venue for a #Eurovision Song Contest 2019 is approaching to be done soon! pic.twitter.com/y8wHtwmkqX

— Eurovision (@Eurovision) August 29, 2018

A KAN deputy told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday that a proclamation will arrive “in early September.”

In June, a EBU had pronounced a preference would be done “by September.” Progress was approaching behind by the two-week extension KAN compulsory progressing this month to account a initial deposit. Last year, Lisbon was announced as a Eurovision horde city in late July.

The EBU is approaching to announce a dates of a foe a same day it announces a horde city. The grand culmination is many approaching to be hold on possibly May 18 or May 25, to equivocate dispute with Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day and Independence Day.

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