Audience loved France for embracing difference, Iceland for counterculture message, Russia for putting its singer in a shower, and Azerbaijan for hooking its to a heart machine

Heavy favorite Duncan Laurence brings show to Holland for first time in decades; Israel finishes in fourth-to-last place; Madonna in trouble for Israeli-Palestinian flag display

Singer, whose song 'Future' featured a call to make peace, rapped by European Broadcasting Union; other critics slam her singing

Associates say he blames dire election performance on Lapid-Gantz merger and especially Blue and White's last minute messaging that biggest party would form next coalition

Israeli video artist Kutiman presents multimedia chronicle of international song contest with footage spanning seven decades

200 million people worldwide set to watch song contest final from 10 p.m. in Tel Aviv; Netherlands, Sweden, Australia are favorites; Madonna, Netta Barzilai to play

City's mayor says 'plants have no place being near us so long as pollution continues and malfunctions occur day in and day out'

New details from testimony of an aide to billionaires Milchan and Packer include premier's wife's demands for coats, pool renovations and a shaving kit delivery at 1 a.m.

A glimpse of Israel's fight for independence through the eyes of two 20-something fighters, as their missives are found decades after their deaths by their children... including me

With coalition talks faltering, Likud officials offer Gadi Yevarkan immigration and absorption portfolio to try to convince freshman lawmaker to join their party