How come Israel is in the Eurovision song contest?

my geography is a bit rusty, but I don't think Israel is in Europe is it? If it was it would be in the EU wouldn't it? And have Euros?

How come Israel is in the Eurovision song contest?
Being in Europe has nothing to do with the EU or Euros.





The Eurovision Song Contest is organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) which now consists of most of the countries on the European continent (before the end of the Cold War it only operated in western Europe - the communist countries had a similar organisation called Intervision), plus most of the countries around the Mediterranean sea, including Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, and most of the countries in North Africa. Any EBU member country can broadcast and enter into the Eurovision Song Contest provided they agree to show all the songs and voting - Lebanon once entered, but couldn't participate because they wouldn't show Israel's song.





You could have asked the same question about how come Israel and Israeli teams play in the UEFA football competitions, to which the answer is that they used to play in the Asian confederation but moved because the Arab countries wouldn't play them; for a time they ended up playing against CONCACAF (North and Central American) sides before they eventually became part of Europe for football purposes.
Reply:Come to think of it, I think you may be right there. I know that Israel has been in the Eurovision song contest for many years but whether it is actually in Europe I don't know. Some say Turkey is just in Europe but Israel is beyond Turkey.
Reply:Don't get me started on this one ...............
Reply:Arab(ic)(ian) Idol wasn't accepting any more contestants
Reply:Europeans love to sing, thus Israel is included as they are mostly european. Cheers!
Reply:Its because the Arabs wont let the Jews play in any of their reindeer games.





Good Luck!!!
Reply:Israel is not the only non-European country to participate.
Reply:Although not geographically part of Europe, around half of Israelies lived in Europe before emigrating to Israel around the beginning of last century, therefore they are very much connected to Europe...afterall many lived there for many centuries!
Reply:Not all European Nations use the Euro.


Isreal is part of the European continent.


Russia is not in the EU


Where do you think the Middle East is the middle east of.


The Eurovision song contest is crAP let Isreal have it anyway.
Reply:Alot of non European countries are in eurovision. North Africa and some asian countries are in it too
Reply:or get to play in european league football games for that matter?
Reply:It's the same with the european football championships.


International zionist conspiracy??


No just the fact that middle east countries do not have their own football tournament or song contest.


And if they did it is unlikely their neighbours would want to take part with them
Reply:LOL





don't tell me they got into it?





Well, they are European. Just the geography has changed. Ersatz israeli people have a lot of relatives who are involved with it, and they want to play as well.





make them move back to Europe I say.