The Head of delegations from the 41 participating countries are all gathered in Tel Aviv to hand over their entries for Eurovision song contest 2019 among other things, like electing members for the Reference group for the next two years - among them Italian Nicola Caligiore again - and getting information on the final plans for the stage and performances and the state of preparations and what is in store for May in general. One of the jobs to do at this point is to draw where thee host country will perform in the final and Israel got the perfect number in the midway: 14th. Thirteen entries will come before them, thirteen will follow them. Meanwhile we will have a rather masculine contest this time. Or maybe it is the most masculine ever? Statistic nerds out there will surely look into that. A total of 18 male soloist vs. 14 female ones. In addition in duos/trios/groups we have 3 male voices and 4 females plus two with both vocalists. So it's 21-18 (+2). But not even ...