My hypothesis for Israel's extremely high score on the middlingest ballad to ever middle:
It was an explicit and honestly pretty extreme political statement that went directly against the conservative Israeli government's propaganda.
And is there anything the gays love more than a hot woman getting on stage to artistically tell her government to fuck off? Is there *really*?
It being a bland and uninteresting song is pretty overshadowed by how rarely Eurovision gets to "be political" given how stringent the network heads that organize it are.
The people thirst for politics. And also sequins.
Also, since the singer was a survivor of the October 7 attack, she had the sympathy vote locked on. Not to mention the amount of people hating on the singer, and you got also the spite vote.
A lot of things summed up to make the wildest amount of points for mildest ballad in existence.