Eden Golan will perform the rewritten song, previously called “October Rain”, in Sweden in May. “We’re going to Eurovision,” she shouts jubilantly into the camera.
According to media reports, the song refers to the massacre by the Islamist Hamas in Israel on October 7th. Terrorists from Hamas and other extremist groups murdered around 1,200 people and abducted another 250 to the Gaza Strip. Israeli broadcaster Kan initially announced that it did not want to edit the text, then reversed its decision.