At the end of July 2009 , Arad participated in the San Francisco International Poetry Festival and had a surprising show with the influential musician Jonathan Richman . Some of Arad 's poems were translated to Arabic and published in Lebanon and Egypt . In March 2012 he co-curated the exhibition '' ' Iran – The Exhibition ' '' , in opposition to Israeli government plans to go to war with Iran , and that seemed to have succeeded in saying something about Israeli-American security paranoia . As a poet and author , his texts were translated to several languages and were published in several magazines , from English and Spanish Granta to French REVU and Plaine Page . Roy Chicky Arad participated in literary and poetry festivals in San Francisco , Sete ( France ) , Rosario ( argentine ) , Toledo ( spain ) , Berlin and more and published poetry and stories In 2000 Roy 's band " Ping Pong " represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden with the song Sameach . At the close of voting the song had received 7 points , placing 22nd in a field of 24 . The song lyrics mentioned a friend from Damascus who dates an Israeli girl . The band was dis-endorsed by the Israel Broadcasting Authority after waving the flag of Syria during the rehearsal and the video-clip of the song . They refused to back down for the performance in the final and pulled the flag out live
Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest 2000
Roy Arad