Eden Alene, Israel’s representative in the 2021 Eurovision song contest was
thrilled to get through to Saturday’s final this week.

Despite calls on social media to boycott her, Alene secured a place in the last 26 at Tuesday’s first semi final with Set Me Free, featuring a ‘whistle note’, the highest note ever sung in Eurovision history.

Russia’s act, Manizha, also got through, with a song Russian Woman written by two Israeli musicians, Ori Avni and Ori Kaplan of Balkan Beat Box