Recommendations of the Editorial team
In the end it was enough for Israel at the ESC 2025 – at first it did not look like it. In the jury ranking, Yuval Raphael received only 60 points with her song “New Day Will Rise” and was therefore far behind in the rear midfield. The audience voting, however, turned the sheet: With 297 points from the televoting, Israel ultimately catapulted himself to second place in the end – and left Estonia behind with just one point.
Israel drove up the strongest audience voting in the evening. This was followed by Estonia with 258 points and Austria with 178 points. No other contribution achieved a similarly high consent to the television audience. Nevertheless, it shouldn’t be enough: Austria won the ESC 2025 with a total of 436 points – unobstructible to the top of the head catapulted by 258 jury points.
Incident in performance
Initially, the Israeli performance of Yuval Raphael at the ESC final on May 17, 2025 in Basel-unlike in the general rehearsals-seemed without incidents. But later a security -relevant incident became known. Like Edi Estermann, Head of Communications of the ESC 2025, in one on “” “Esc-kompakt.de“Districted statement said, a man and a woman tried to overcome the barrier to the stage. One of the two threw with color and hit a member of the crew. The person concerned was therefore not injured.
“At the end of the Israeli appearance, a man and a woman tried to get to the stage. They were stopped. One of the two people threw in color and a member of the crew was hit. The crew member was well and no one was injured. The man and the woman were accompanied and handed over to the police,” Estermann is quoted.
A disruptive campaign had already occurred during the dress rehearsal on the previous day: As the FAZ reported, Raphael appearance was interrupted by whistles during the third rehearsal. According to observers, the singer remained calm and professional. The organizing Swiss television SRG announced that the security personnel quickly identified the persons concerned and removed from the hall.
ESC 2025: The result
1. Austria – JJ – “Wasted Love” – 436 points (including 258 jury and 178 audience)
2. Israel – Yuval Raphael – “New Day Will Rise” – 357 points (including 60 jury and 297 audience)
3. Estonia – Tommy Cash – “Espresso Macchiato” – 356 points (including 98 jury and 258 audience)
4. Sweden – Kaj – “Bara Bada Bastu” – 321 points (including 126 jury and 195 audience)
5. Italy – Lucio Corsi – “Volevo Essere Un Duro” – 256 points (including 159 jury and 97 audience)
6. Greece – Klavdia – “Asteromata” – 231 points (including 105 jury and 126 audience)
7. France – Louane – “Maman” – 230 points (including 180 jury and 50 audience)
8. Albania – Shkodra Elektronike – “Zjerm” – 218 points (including 45 jury and 173 audience)
9. Ukraine – ZiFerBlat – “Bird of Pray” – 218 points (including 60 jury and 158 audience)
10. Switzerland – Zoë Më – “Voyage” – 214 points (including 214 jury and 0 audience)
11. Finland – Erika Vikman – “I come” – 196 points (including 88 jury and 108 audience)
12. Netherlands – Claude – “C’est La Vie” – 175 points (including 133 jury and 42 audience)
13. Latvia – Tautumeitas – “Bur Nam Nam Laimi” – 158 points (including 116 jury and 42 audience)
14. Poland – Justyna Steczkowska – “Gaja” – 156 points (including 17 jury and 139 audience)
15. Germany – Abor & Tynna – “Baller” – 151 points (including 77 jury and 74 audience)
16. Lithuania – Qatarsis – “Tavo Akys” – 96 points (including 34 jury and 62 audience)
17th Malta – Miriana Conte – “Serving” – 91 points (including 83 jury and 8 audience)
18. Norway – Kyle Alessandro – “Lighter” – 89 points (including 22 jury and 67 audience)
19. Great Britain (UK) – Remember Monday – “What the Hell just happened?” – 88 points (including 88 jury and 0 audience)
20. Armenia – Parg – “Survivor” – 72 points (including 42 jury and 30 audience)
21. Portugal – Napa – “Deslocado” – 50 points (including 37 jury and 13 audience)
22. Luxembourg – Laura Thorn – “La Poupée Monte Le Son” – 47 points (including 23 jury and 24 audience)
23. Denmark – Sissal – “Hallucination” – 47 points (including 45 jury and 2 audience)
24. Spain – Melody – “Esa Diva” – 37 points (including 27 jury and 10 audience)
25. Iceland – Væb – “Róa” – 33 points (of which jury and 33 audience)
26. San Marino – Gabry Ponte – “Tutta l’Italia” – 27 points (including 9 jury and 18 audience)