Eurovision rehearsals start amid escalation

The initial day of rehearsals for a Eurovision Song Contest kicked off in Tel Aviv on Saturday amid an escalation of assault in a South.

The 40 visiting contestants from around a creation began alighting Friday morning, and continued to arrive via a weekend. And notwithstanding a fusillade of rockets that began Saturday morning, all continued as scheduled during a Expo Tel Aviv, where a rehearsals took place. Those rehearsals are slated to continue as designed on Sunday morning, Eurovision officials pronounced late Saturday.

“Rehearsals with a artists, their delegations and a prolongation group have kicked off here in Tel Aviv,” tweeted Eurovision executive administrator Jon Ola Sand on Saturday afternoon. “Looking brazen to saying them all on a @Eurovision stage.”

Despite an pithy hazard from Palestinian Islamic Jihad on Saturday opposite a Eurovision Song Contest, a European Broadcasting Union (EBU) pronounced preparations for a foe were stability as schedule.

Rehearsals, a EBU pronounced Saturday, “will continue as normal” and a conditions will be “closely monitored.”

“Safety and confidence is always of peerless significance for a EBU,” a classification told The Jerusalem Post in a matter on Saturday. “We continue to work alongside KAN and a Home Front Command to guarantee a contentment of everybody operative in and fasten us during Expo Tel Aviv. We will continue to closely guard a tide conditions and rehearsals will continue as normal.”

A Eurovision-themed unison scheduled for Saturday dusk in Modi’in was canceled due to a confidence situation. The uncover was slated to underline Dana International, Israel’s 1998 Eurovision winner. But a unison was canceled hours before it was scheduled to start following orders from a Home Front Command not to reason vast gatherings.

“It’s really unhappy that a initial large Eurovision eventuality is being canceled,” Dana pronounced Saturday evening. “I’m repelled and saddened. we wish this will be a usually eventuality that will be canceled.”

Throughout Friday and Saturday, a solid tide of Eurovision contestants arrived in Israel from opposite a creation to start a week of rehearsals, entertainment and preparation.

The initial to arrive on Friday was a one with a farthest to travel: Australia’s Kate Miller-Heidke, who flew 22 hours to arrive in Tel Aviv. She was assimilated via Friday by Hungary’s Joci Papai, Cyprus’s Tamta, Serhat from San Marino, Zena from Belarus, Tulia from Poland, Lake Malawi from a Czech Republic, Nevena Bozovic from Serbia, Zala and Gasper of Slovenia, D-Moll from Montenegro and Hatari of Iceland.

On Saturday, Finland’s Darude arrived, as did Sergey Lazarev of Russia, Oto Nemsadze of Georgia, Eliot Vassamillet of Belgium and Greece’s Katerine Duska.

Contestants began rehearsing on Saturday during a Expo Tel Aviv. The rehearsals are scheduled to be hold all week long, solely for Wednesday, when they will hindrance for Remembrance Day.

The contestants who are holding partial in a initial semi-final, scheduled for May 14, are all slated to have their initial rehearsals on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday, a competitors from Cyprus, a Czech Republic, Finland, Poland, Slovenia, Montenegro, Hungary, Belarus and Serbia took to a theatre during Expo Tel Aviv for a initial time.

Marimi and a large 5 countries – France, Spain, Italy, a UK and Germany – won’t be rehearsing until Friday since they automatically validate for a grand culmination on Saturday, May 18.

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