Drones will be used for surveillance, and guests will have to pass through airport-style security controls when entering venues.

The European Broadcasting Union, the Geneva-based organisers, have also said they reserve the right to remove any Palestinian flags and pro-Palestinian symbols at the show.

It follows months of controversy over Israel’s entry. Eden Golon, the country’s contestant, had to modify the lyrics and title of her original song October Rain after it was deemed too political and said to reference the Oct 7 Hamas attack. 

The European Broadcasting Union then permitted Ms Golon to compete with the renamed Hurricane.

As many as 100,000 visitors are expected to arrive in Malmo for the week-long festivities, while 200 million viewers worldwide are expected to tune in.

The south-western city is home to 360,000 people and is one of Sweden’s most diverse, but the Jewish community of around 1,200 people has said it is worried about being targeted by protests.

“There’s a certain feeling of apprehension, of tension,” Felix Krausz Sjogren, a guide at the synagogue in Malmo, told Reuters, about the planned protests.

On Thursday, Israel’s National Security Council issued an advisory warning against travel to Malmo, citing “well-founded concern that terrorist elements will exploit the protests and the anti-Israel mood to carry out attacks against Israelis attending Eurovision”.