(19 May 2025)
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Ben Gurion airport , Israel – 18 May 2025
1. Israeli singer Yuval Raphael entering hall at airport wrapped in Israeli flag and holding flowers
2. Israeli flag
3. Various of screens showing image of Raphael with text reading (Hebrew) “Yuval, we are proud of you”
4. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Yuval Raphael, Israeli singer: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON SHOT1 AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT2-3++
“I’ve returned with the greatest feelings of pride. Proud to represent this country that is so special and so strong with a song that has always reconnected me with my emotions. In my opinion, the real message behind it is the State of Israel, that goes through what it goes through, but always sees the new day as a new beginning, always knows how to pick itself up again from everything that happens to it, that is exactly what unites us as a people.”
5. Wide of Raphael standing with flowers
STORYLINE:
Israeli singer Yuval Raphael was greeted by a cheering crowd at Ben Gurion airport on Sunday, after placing second at the 69th Eurovision Song Contest in Switzerland.
“I’ve returned with the greatest feelings of pride,” said Raphael during a short statement at the airport.
Raphael scooped up a massive public vote Saturday from her many fans for her anthemic “New Day Will Rise.”
But she also faced protests from pro-Palestinian demonstrators calling for Israel to be kicked out of the contest over its conduct of the war against Hamas in Gaza.
This year’s contest was roiled for a second year by disputes over Israel’s participation.
Raphael — a survivor of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on a music festival in southern Israel that triggered the Gaza war — was met by a mix of cheers and boos as she sang.
Swiss broadcaster SRG SSR said a man and woman were stopped as they tried to climb over a barrier to the stage at the end of her song. It said a crew member was hit by paint thrown by the pair. Raphael’s team said she was left “shaken and upset.”
The Oct. 7 cross-border attacks by Hamas militants killed 1,200 people, and roughly 250 were taken hostage into Gaza. More than 52,800 people in Gaza have been killed in Israel’s retaliatory offensive, according to the territory’s health ministry.
Both pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel protests took place in Basel, though on a much smaller scale than at last year’s event in Sweden.
AP video shot by Ami Bentov
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