Israeli singer Noam Bettan and his entourage received a warm welcome in Vienna, Austria, during the opening event for this week’s Eurovision Song Contest on Sunday — a radical departure from the throngs of pro-Hamas protesters wearing keffiyehs and threatening Israeli contestants that had become the norm in the past two years.

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual continental event — also including some non-European countries such as Georgia and Australia — in which countries send an original song performed by an artist of their choice. This year will mark the 70th anniversary of the competition, which was conceived in part as a way of…

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