backing vocalists (two men, Reuven Erez and Itzhak Okev, and three women, Lisa Gold-Rubin, Nehama Shutan, and Esther Tzuberi) all wore white clothing and remained mostly stationary, swaying in time to the music. The song was performed eighteenth on the night, following 's Baccara with "Parlez-vous français?" and preceding 's Springtime with "Mrs. Caroline Robinson". At the close of voting, it had received 157 points, placing first in a field of 20. The song received points from every other voting country except , including 6 sets of maximum 12 points. The song was succeeded in as contest winner and as Israeli representative by Milk and Honey performing "Hallelujah". Israel thus became the third country, after (1968 and 1969) and Luxembourg (1972 and 1973), to win the contest twice in successive years. Izhar Cohen returned to the contest at Gothenburg, Sweden in , then finishing 5th in a field of 19 with "Olé, Olé". It was covered by Grup Vitamin, Turkish parody music group as "Acaba bu ne baba be?" ("I wonder what is this dad, hey?" in Turkish) in Aşkın gözyaşları ("Tears of Love"), which was their 1994 album. A parody of this song, with identical Hebrew lyrics in the first two lines and two lines in Mandarin Chinese, was used as the opening song of Hong Kong broadcaster TVB's 2009 game show Boom Boom Ba. The song was performed in 2018, on a one-stringed guitar by Israeli singer Netta Barzilai who won the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. Cover versions The song was covered by: Connie Francis Beti Jurković in Croatian, as "Ja pa te pe vo po lim pi" (from , also "I love you") Frederik in Finnish, as "Rakkauden aika." El Chaval de la Peca (Marc Parrot) in Spanish. It was also parodied as "I wanna be a polar bear" (intentionally misheard lyrics). Grup Vitamin in Turkish, as "Acaba bu ne baba be." See also Music of Israel Culture of Israel Ubbi dubbi Opish References External links Eurovision songs of 1978 Eurovision songs of Israel Hebrew-language songs 1978 songs Songs with music by Nurit Hirsh Eurovision Song Contest winning songs Polydor Records singles