This year’s Eurovision slogan is “Building Bridges” — and yesterday we saw the theme in action. During Israel’s press conference a fan from Lebanon stood up to say that despite tensions between the two countries, he loves Nadav and his music.
I am from Lebanon and we are neighbours. I was watching your rehearsal and one of my best friends is from Israel. I started to brought some tears to my eyes because I felt emotion seeing a country that’s supposed to have issues with and my question for you is did you imagine that you at 16 years would help build a bridge of peace to the two countries when you came here.
Nadav was visibly touched by the words, saying “Now that you tell me something like this my heart is full of….”, before he trailed off. The Head of Delegation added that the moment was beautiful, and invited the fan on stage. The flags of the two nations were then unfurled and held side by side for a photo op.
Can Eurovision help broker peace in the Middle East? Probably not. But the press conference is a moving reminder that music really does unite us.
We filmed an interview with Nadav and the Lebanese fan and will upload it soon.
… the Lebanon – Israel “hate and love” story is not what i a worried about cuz seriously Eurovision is not here to fix things these 2 countries need to work through to overcome …if they ever want such thing. … the “gay innuendos” at some of the questions during the interview to this kid were so unnecessary … the kid is focusing on the song and having a blast during the performance … yet asking if the dancers will be naked or not is far more relevant? Is this what being “unstoppable” is all about? And they wonder why… Read more »
@LucyEAPercy Back in 1993 miss Lebanon and miss Israel were photographed together (there were no selfies or social media back then), which caused an outrage in Lebanon. Poor miss Lebanon was stripped of her title and prosecuted for “collaborating with the enemy”. So considering the consequences, it’s understandable why last year’s miss Lebanon went nuts over that stupid selfie.
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/miss-israel-tamara-porat-and-miss-lebanon-ghada-turk-pose-news-photo/51351277
Wonderful news! So pleased to see this, was a shame when they thought this was happening in Miss World when Miss Lebanon and Miss Israel had a picture together but the n Miss Lebanon went nuts saying Miss Israel photobombed and stuff.
Eurovision is the home of real beauty eh? I know people hate when it gets political, but when it’s in this way, that’s fantastic.
awesome…. but isnt nadev too young to understand all this? kinda reminds me of the russian twins last year.
Yes Fatima of course this was staged because israel and israelis are evil and everyone hates them and anything good said about or done by israel can therefore just simply cannot be true lololololol
Seriously though, this is a wonderful moment and should be shown to the world!
lovely
Lebanon didnt enter this year cause israel is there
Im israeli and i think its very brave of the lebanese guy to publicly love israel – especially this days with all the hate
nadav did what every israeli would have done but the labnese guy is the big deal here – kudos to him
I hope this nice Lebanese guy will not suffer trouble back home (though I understand he doesn’t live in Lebanon right now). Eurovision is a great stage for building bridges and this is why I was so disappointed when Lebanon withdrew in 2005. The Israelis are yearning for friendship with the Lebanese, that beautiful song would have gotten 12 points from Israel.
Fatima – you think that this was staged by whom? The Israelis?!
How can this even seem staged? You can obviously see Ahmed is seriously asking that question, and that Nadav and his crew really are getting emotional about it… He almost didnt know what to say.
WILLIAM IN THE DUTCH NEWS: http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/13344/Dossier-Eurovisie-Songfestival/article/detail/4028014/2015/05/17/Concurrent-van-Trijntje-is-stem-kwijt-en-zegt-huilend-af.dhtml
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Shut up Fatima! You are always here condemning israel and Nadav. You are racist and fueled by the yahoodi media. dont arab!
And if it were, Fatima? Would it make any difference?
Is there any possibility that this might have been staged ?
Sooo special and meaningful!! I love this!!
NINA HAS LOST HER VOICE :'( : http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/13344/Dossier-Eurovisie-Songfestival/article/detail/4028014/2015/05/17/Concurrent-van-Trijntje-is-stem-kwijt-en-zegt-huilend-af.dhtml
This is beautiful. And it shows what a wonderful person Nadav is. Great video from the press conference.
GLAM <3
Wow what great news! Glad you guys caught this moment for us!
FYI I typed in a thumbs up not question marks!
What a perfect representation of building bridges ???? It’s a really great slogan for Eurovision
They are only taking selfies
This has actually put a lump in my throat…
Maybe the best news from Vienna so far
Take note, beauty pageants.
Lebanon’s withdrawn song in the Vision of 2005 was beautiful…If this country had participated could do well i Kiev’s contest…I can see the Lebanese debuting to our Vision in the near future.. 🙂