The North Macedonian representative, Tamara Todevsk was glad to hear her My Heritage DNA results today live in the press centre

You can watch the full clip here;

The Irish representative, Sarah McTernan was glad to hear her My Heritage DNA results today live in the press centre

You can watch the full clip here;

Some of the team from ESCKAZ.com took a trip to the world famous Dead Sea area yesterday
Well worth a visit - even if the water is pretty vile

Finalists: Greece, Belarus, Serbia, Cyprus, Estonia, Czech Republic, Australia, Iceland, San Marino, Slovenia

Out: Montenegro, Finland, Poland, Hungary, Belgium, Georgia, Portugal

Yesterday, the Australian ambassador to Israel, Chris Cannan, hosted an event at his residency.

In the event, the historian Dean Vuletic gave a lecture about the history, the political roots and the political influence of the Eurovision Song Contest, as described in his book "Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest". The title of the lecture was "Why Are Australia and Israel in The Eurovision Song Contest". Obviously it did not evolve around the technicalities (Israel is part of the EBU and therefore allowed to take part), but rather around the cultural connections that lead to both countries to not just participated, but also be heavily invested in.

We were also informed at the event, Vuletic is currently working on a new book, that will evolve around the "Intervision", the soviet bloc song contest. We'll be waiting on that one.

Ambassador Chris Cannan,

Dean Vuletic