It was selected to represent Israel after placing first in the 1987 '' Kdam-Eurovision '' preliminaries , where it tallied 79 points , defeating fifteen other Israeli artists ' entries including as 1978 Eurovision winner Izhar Cohen . This was the largest pre-Eurovision competition to date , presented by Yardena Arazi and Yoram Arbell on April 1 , 1987
1978 Eurovision
Eurovision Song Contest 1978
Shir Habatlanim