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On Friday, I wrote about Yuval Raphael, the girl who is this year’s Israeli entrant in the Eurovision Contest. I wrote about those who full of anti-Israel venom would be heckling her as she sang, and in other ways try to make her appearance difficult. Dov Berrol added this comment:
Yuval survived the October 7 terrorist attack on the Nova Music Festival. She hid in a roadside shelter that eventually was attacked by more terrorists from Gaza. She played dead under the dying bodies of her friends until she was rescued 8 hours later. She entered Israel’s “Hakochav Haba” television competition with no previous background in public singing. She won the competition and her prize was to represent Israel in this week’s Eurovision Song Contest in Basel.
I ended my piece with the following paragraph:
The pro-Hamas, and therefore pro-genocide, protesters — there are about 150 of them at the event — are trying to hound Raphael from appearing, or if that doesn’t work, to so upset her during her singing that she won’t be able to perform at her best. Neither will happen. Yuval Raphael has been preparing to sing through their boos. I predict that Yuval Raphael will not only remain splendidly undisturbed by their expressions of spittle-flecked hate, but will come away very close to, or even at, the top.
And she did. She came in second. Bravo, Ms. Raphael.
