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Israel wins place in Eurovision finals with Jewish-Arab duet
By Yoav Segev, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service
Tags: israel news, eurovision 

Singers Achinoam Nini and Mira Awad, who are representing Israel in this year's Eurovision Song Contest, are on their way to the competition's finals, scheduled to take place Saturday night in Moscow.

The duo performed the song "There Must be Another Way" in English, Hebrew and Arabic on Tuesday night, when they competed against 17 other artists.

The choice of a Jewish-Arab team to represent Israel at the competition had sparked criticism and debate with a gravity that couldn't be further from the Eurovision competition itself, a festival of flamboyant pop and unapologetic kitsch which draws some 100 million TV viewers every year.
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Nini, a regular on the world music scene known internationally as Noa, and Awad, a local actress and singer, were selected by Israel's national broadcasting authority. Their selection came a day after Israel launched its Gaza offensive in December to halt rocket fire by Hamas militants.

Awad, who is the first Arab ever to represent Israel at the competition, was criticized for agreeing to go and became the subject of a petition organized by Israeli Arab artists who said sending her and Nini, a veteran peace activist, was a deliberate attempt to portray Israel as something it is not.

Aside from Israel, other countries that have made it into the finals include Turkey, Sweden, Portugal, Malta, Finland, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Romania, Armenia and Iceland.
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  1.   There Must Be Another Way 10:09  |  daniel yefet 13/05/09
  2.   Grrr 10:13  |  Sprung 13/05/09
  3.   Bravo of the message of the Israeli song 10:23  |  Anne 13/05/09
  4.   Mira Awad 10:37  |  Sam Soul 13/05/09
  5.   Amazing the way Achinoam looks more "Arab" than Mira... 11:36  |  Esther 13/05/09
  6.   @Sam #3 11:59  |  JW 13/05/09
  7.   Thanks JW 12:18  |  Sam Soul 13/05/09
  8.   To Esther 12:22  |  Sam Soul 13/05/09
  9.   @JW #6 12:30  |  Reena Mizrachi 13/05/09
  10.   Portrait of Israel as "something that it`s not"? Au contraire! 12:37  |  Ivar 13/05/09
  11.   Great, but a distortion of the real conditions. 13:11  |  Gray 13/05/09
  12.   well done 13:12  |  kol hakavod 13/05/09
  13.   To Gray 13:56  |  Anne 13/05/09
  14.   Reena Mizrachi #9 14:50  |  MR 13/05/09
  15.   To MR 16:24  |  Sam Soul 13/05/09
  16.   Pointless 17:12  |  Erin Tas 13/05/09
  17.   To Gray: about schools 17:16  |  Israeli 13/05/09
  18.   There is another way and it`s NOT the 2-State Solution 17:29  |  Jacob 13/05/09
  19.   Mira 17:31  |  Alex 13/05/09
  20.   12 points from Turkey 17:34  |  Nilgun 13/05/09
  21.   To Gray - Tell the whole truth... 18:05  |  Luisa 13/05/09
  22.   to Grey: it`s not black and white 18:25  |  Michèle 13/05/09
  23.   Sam Soul (#4) So what is your point? 18:29  |  Gil 13/05/09
  24.   Sam Soul (#4) So what is your point? 18:30  |  Gil 13/05/09
  25.   Wouldn`t it be great if the rest of the groups 18:51  |  Lynn 13/05/09
  26.   Gray from Germany 18:54  |  Gil 13/05/09
  27.   To Gil 19:03  |  Sam Soul 13/05/09
  28.   Nilgun #20 19:32  |  6f 13/05/09
  29.   #17 Israeli 19:33  |  Darren J. 13/05/09
  30.   We shouldn`t take the Eurovision song contest 19:41  |  Axel 13/05/09
  31.   Sam Soul (#27) you are frustrated for nothing 20:12  |  Gil 13/05/09
  32.   They look so beautiful together:) 01:51  |  elinor from Iran 14/05/09
  33.   #29 03:14  |  Jane 14/05/09
  34.   6f Really? 03:33  |  Erin Tas 14/05/09
  35.   To Gil 11:07  |  Sam Soul 14/05/09
  36.   Israel is not a European country 11:59  |  David 14/05/09
  37.   #30 Jews lived in "Moslem" Arab countries. Not estranged 20:19  |  Elly 14/05/09
  38.   # 37 elly 14:24  |  Axel 15/05/09
  39.   to Gray 03:55  |  Ann 16/05/09
  40.   # 39 ann re gray 10:16  |  Axel 16/05/09
  41.   Well done 16:09  |  Sefartit 16/05/09
  42.   San Soul 07:21  |  Lou 17/05/09
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