EurovisionVideos in different languages appeared on social media on Friday evening, in which Israel’s Eurovision representative Noam Bettan urged the viewers to cast all ten public votes for Israel’s song.
X-service user Adam McCallig managed to capture Israel’s Spanish-language advertising video.
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In videos on social media, Israel’s Eurovision representative Noam Bettan urged viewers to vote for Israel with all 10 of their votes.
The director of the Eurovision Song Contest, Martin Green, sent an official warning to the Israeli broadcasting company Kani for illegal marketing.
The videos were immediately removed, and Kan’s representative told Norway’s TV 2 that they were created on Bettan’s own initiative.
Eurovision tightened its rules this year, because last year Israel’s vote fishing was found to be government-led.
Eurovision director of the singing competition Martin Green has sent an official warning to the Israeli broadcasting company Kani for illegal marketing, says Norwegian TV 2 channel.
On Friday evening, videos in different languages appeared on social media, in which the representative of Israel Noam Bettan urged people to give Israel’s song all the ten votes that a single person can give in the contest.
In the videos, Bettan spoke Azerbaijani, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Maltese, Portuguese, Swedish and Ukrainian. When the Eurovision organization heard about the videos, the Israeli delegation was asked to stop distributing the videos immediately and remove them from all platforms.
That’s what happened. Kan’s representative told Norway’s TV 2 that the videos were initiated by Bettani himself and did not involve illegal funding.
Eurovision to the rules of the singing competition is ahead of this year’s competition changes madewhich aim to prevent external influence on the outcome of the competition. For changes includes the prohibition of disproportionately large advertising campaigns, especially when they are carried out or financed by third parties such as government institutions of different countries.
Similarly, in public voting, the maximum number of votes for an individual person has been halved from the previous twenty to the current ten. The weight of the professional juries’ votes has also been increased.
These rule changes were made after Israel received an avalanche of votes in the public vote at last year’s Eurovision. The EBU research body of the European Broadcasting Union, which organizes the Eurovision Song Contest, concluded that Israel was fishing for votes from the government.