{"id":110785,"date":"2026-05-12T20:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/110785\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T20:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:37:08","slug":"noam-bettan-israeli-eurovision-representative-takes-stage-in-semifinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/110785\/","title":{"rendered":"Noam Bettan, Israeli Eurovision representative, takes stage in semifinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Israel&#8217;s representative at the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, Noam Bettan, took the stage on Tuesday night for the semifinal competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Bettan performed his song &#8220;Michelle,&#8221; accompanied by dancer Lihi Freud, who plays the titular Michelle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">During his performance, audience members were heard yelling &#8220;Genocide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">During the semifinal, viewers across the world will be able to vote. Their votes will be combined with the jury scores from Monday&#8217;s rehearsal to determine whether \u201cMichelle\u201d will be performed again on Saturday in the final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Prior to Bettan&#8217;s performance, Israel was ranked 6th overall in the official betting pool, with a 96% chance of qualifying for the final.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s representative at the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, Noam Bettan, took the stage on Tuesday night for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[26026,3741,37,3738,23000],"class_list":["post-110785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-eurovision","tag-eurovision-song-contest","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-performance"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116563531804207048","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}