Israel qualifies for Eurovision final, after a day of protests

According to bookmakers, Golan’s song is fifth favourite to win the contest on Saturday night.

Topping the odds is Croatian act Baby Lasagna, whose riotous dance anthem Rim Tim Tagi Dim qualified from the first semi-final on Tuesday.

Switzerland’s Nemo, whose operatic pop song The Code is the second favourite, was one of the 10 acts who were voted through after Thursday’s show.

The singer put on one of the night’s most impressively athletic performances, dancing on a rotating turntable while they sang about coming to terms with their non-binary identity

Other artists who qualified included Austria’s Kaleen, with her techno anthem We Will Rave, and Armenia’s Ladaniva, whose sassy and exuberant song, Jako, brought a Balkan folk flavour to the contest.

Greek singer Marina Zatti also made it through, despite suffering pharyngitis and a fever in the run-up to her performance.

Meanwhile, Latvia and Georgia broke an eight-year losing streak – sending their contestants to the final for the first time since 2016.