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Israel: Media reactions and TV figures.
As Harel Skaat was tipped to win the contest, the Israeli media showed big hopes and confidence to see the contest once again in Israel. Before the second semifinal where Israel took part, there was a feeling of certainty in the country that Harel would qualify to the final. After the actual qualification Israel's hopes were raised even higher.
However, Harel finished in the surprising 14th place. Right after the show, the Israeli media showed disappointment. In an interview to Channel 2 News, he said: "I really enjoyed it. I'm very glad I did it in the way I did it, as the reactions were very good, and as an evidence you can see the three (Marcel Bezençon) prizes we won. There is a big dissonance between what happened with the song until now and what happened during the voting. It's easy to say that they don't like us in Europe but I still don't know. I admit that during the voting I laughed because the block- and diaspora-voting was really ridiculous."
Tzvika Pik, who has composed three Eurovision entries, including one winner (Israel 1998, Israel 2002 and Ukraine 2003) and also wrote the song Sing my song which took part in this year's Georgian national final, commented and said: "Harel was very excited both in the semifinal and the final. It might have been a mistake to sing the song in 100% hebrew. He could sing a verse in french as it's a kind of french."
And what about the nation's feelings? This year's Eurovision Song Contest didn't achieve any special rating figures. More people watched this year's contest than the last year's one, when Noa & Mira Awad represented Israel, but the numbers are still lower than in 2008, when Boaz Mauda was the representative, or in 2005, when Shiri Maimon reached the 4th place with her song Hasheket Shenishar.
Here are the full rating figures for the Eurovision Song Contest since 1998:
Year | Rating | No. of Households | Market Share |
1998 | 35.4% | 514,000 | 59% |
1999 | 43.9% | 637,000 | 71% |
2000 | 24.3% | 387,000 | 45% |
2001 | 18.7% | 288,000 | 41% |
2002 | 30.6% | 475,000 | 50% |
2003 | 28.9% | 479,000 | 49% |
2004 Semifinal | 16.5% | 281,000 | 31% |
2004 Final | 10.4% | 176,800 | 23% |
2005 Semifinal | 19.5% | 339,000 | 35% |
2005 Final | 34.4% | 597,000 | 60% |
2006 Semifinal | 7.9% | 136,000 | 16% |
2006 Final | 21.2% | 365,000 | 41% |
2007 Semifinal | 11.5% | 199,000 | 23% |
2007 Final | 8.6% | 148,600 | 17% |
2008 Semifinal 1 | 11% | 199,000 | 20% |
2008 Semifinal 2 | 4.9% | 88,000 | 10% |
2008 Final | 22.5% | 409,000 | 41% |
2009 Semifinal 1 | 8.8% | 160,000 | 16% |
2009 Semifinal 2 | 5.9% | 107,100 | 11% |
2009 Final | 16.8% | 304,000 | 31% |
2010 Semifinal 1 | 5.2% | 93,600 | 11% |
2010 Semifinal 2 | 7.3% | 132,000 | 13% |
2010 Final | 18.3% | 332,000 | 35% |
Watch the live performance of Milim in the final:
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Well i didn't like that Harel and his song myself, it was terrible, nothing more that harel's voice off key through dramatic words sooo boring it was, it should have even stayed in semi final so we there would be place for another song in the finl instead of that eloooooooooooooo milim crap
... so... harel pretty boy was laughing diúring the voting?! i was laughing when he was "singing"... or tbh while he was screaming and screeching and going so off key... what a twat!!
anyway, i am going to bed, good night everyone, kiss kiss
Lina
kurds who live in turkey don't have a flag.. current kurdish flag is for northern iraq.. and turkish republic is not a racist country like others.. we had 11 presidents and 3 of them was kurdish origin
nagorno karabagh is a landlocked area from everywhere..they don't have 7 stars hotels and international universities like northern cyprus.... armenia is just harming itself with karabagh.. in the end they will want to give it back..or azerbaijan will take it again with everyway... it's situation is much different from northern cyprus..
don't play the fool pls... u know there is a state in northern cyprus which has a flag, own borders, many universities, own governments, many hotels, schools, representatives of other countries...etc everything a country has... what do u expect in cyprus in the future? they will leave all of these things and accept to be minority in cyprus?
Persoanlly I am talking about the brand new nationalistic troll from TRNC/Turkey.....Kenan as a person still is ok
c'mon guys give Kenan break, leave him alone, his human being, stop being too harsh on him, i am serious
Lina, I know how you feel. Just leave him, it is one of this silly trolls from the backyard. Is it a coindidence that the other troll (Angelic) is Turkish also?
Now the last days we had a discussion about Israel and Cyprus, now don't begin with Karabakh!
@Lina !!!
Think what you want, I swear that I'm not Angelic and I have just 1 account! And if you won't believe me again, then do it, I don't care for such hateful beings like you!
Lina I guess we need to be carefull with those two. I will never speak to the creature (see Angelic) is Kenan is ok, until now. We will see in future what might happen.
even and Kurds have a flag but they dont have a state
@Dino they way who that 2 profiles whrites and also the way who use the emoticons are 99% the same with fight or with no fight @Turquality a flag cant make a countrey Nagorno Karabah have a flag also and you need permision to pass the borders from Azerbaijan to Karabah so ?
Kenan you have not answered to me about your photo..
Just Turquality
I am not trying to scare I am simply ignoring, you silly troll.
Dino Mil
lool.. u scare me so much
@Lina !!!
Yes, me and her are the same persons WITH ANY doubts!
Just Turquality
It is time to have your milk and go for bed..................for your good go away..............
Lina how you came up with this conclusion? Is it because afterwads a big fight where Angelic is the protagonist, Kenan pops up?
By the way it happens almost every time.
Lina
don't mix apples and oranges..
first of all Salonica isn't in Macedonian republic's borders.. so he would be right to be angry about it..
but there are two different countries, flags and borders in cyprus.. can a belgian come to northern cyprus without turkish side's permission? of course no... because there is a republic in northern cyprus....
by the way i don't understand your reaction... you always see this flag when you go nicosia, it mustn't be different in there..
Lina
Get a grip!Where have i mentioned anything about you?
You should channel your anger through other positive tasks...
Ans where have i tried to play the peace maker exactly?
Lina how about you and dimitris, maybe you two are same person as well, because I am now woried don't know who belongs to who hahahahahahahahaha LOL
@Kenan and @Angelic are same person with any doubts ! And @Dimitris you who want to show the peace maker here i want to ask you something, if a person from FYRO Macedonia put on his profile a map who shows Thessaloniki as a part of FYRO Macedonia how your going to react ?
dimitris
if we make kiss we will be brothers, whats wrong with that? Are you jealous? LOL
Kenan who's that guy on you profile. You?
Kenan and this is my opinion
Just kiss and make up!At least for tonight!You sound like the 2 old men from muppet show...
She is not friend of mine why I should advice her what to do?
dimitris
yes I love this kenan, who doesn't!... LOL
KeNaN the noble Prince ♥'es his AnGeLiC
You supported angelic many times, you and her attack me because you thought/think I was/am Armenian, you did that many times in many forums so stop lying and you also said you were gonna get the evidence that I said I live in Turkey which I never did so you really are full of crap and have nothing better to do other than playing crazy games, you and angelic ofcourse, not sure how many profiles you have though but I can smell ghost of korkut bostanci through profile called Turquality whatever, cheers thanks for reading mate
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