"Chai" . which means ""Alive", was important in Israel, because she sang "The People of Israel is alive" , on German soil, just a few decades after the Holocaust.

The thing about 83 song is that it was in Germany, and the lyrics is “I’m still alive”

My favorite Israeli song is also my favorite ESC song of all time: 1991 - Duo Datz - Kann. Further I also love their 1982 and 1983 entries.

I thought I was alone in really loving the 2019 song. Amazing song and an amazing singer. Just goosebumps.

Nice reactions! My favourites from each decade: 1979 Hallelujah 1982 Hora 1991 Kan 2008 The fire in your eyes 2015 Golden Boy 2020 Feker Libi

"All I hear is Hallelujah because the rest is Hebrew" Halleluyah literally is Hebrew for "Praise God"

Yay, another reaction video! I feel like Israel is quite extreme in terms of Eurovision quality. When they're good, they're really good, and when they're bad, they're really bad. Hardly any in-between with their songs, but in the end, we all appreciate their presence in the contest. --in terms of A-bi-na-bi vs Hallelujah with their first two wins, I'm not sure which one I prefer. The former was my favorite in 1978, but that year was relatively weak year song-wise. The latter is good and warm, but it's sometimes missing something for me. --Halayla is a total bop--so underrated in the fandom. And with Hora, I think it's a worthy runner-up; Germany and Israel were the only really strong songs in 1982. --I absolutely agree with you guys with Hi; probably their best entry, in my opinion. From the orchestration to the lyrics to the prancing, it's absolutely perfect. How did Si la vie est cadeau win that year again? --Ah, Shir Habatlanim--it was worth the Culture Minister's threat to resign, hehe. --Sorry to hear that about Shara Bachravot--I think if you listen to the entire song, then it would make sense. It's actually my third favorite Israeli entry, but I understand where it wrong, as Rita goes off the rails vocally. --Kan, so spirited and proud, my second favorite Israeli entry. Still think Carola and Amina were a worthy top two, though; this is my third. --I did not miss Shalom Olam in 1996--it didn't fit the level of songs there. --I respect Diva--it's a good song with a strong message. However, there were other songs I particularly liked; Where Are You is my favorite of the year. --Israel in the 2000s was pretty weak. Only their 2005 and 2008 entries were good in some way, though I do like 2001 and 2003's entries as guilty pleasures. And Be Happy...you couldn't have a worse start to a decade, or even century, than this. --I thought Milim was beautiful, albeit with vocal questions. In addition, I knew Harel Skaat before finding out of Eurovision. --Made of Stars is really pretty, in my opinion. In addition, it's one of the first songs I listened to a lot in the contest. --Toy is indeed a polarizing song, and I fall in the "like" category! It's very in-your-face with a relevant message, though I could understand Roy's comments.

Light a Candle was quite well liked in Israel at that time. I agree it was foolish to send Sarit with a song like this rather than her upbeat oriental signature genre, but it mostly bothered the Israeli Euro-fans, the average Israeli Joe liked it. 2002 was a very hard year for Israel, there were many terrorist attacks, buses were exploding left and right and people were afraid to leave their homes. This kind of dirge was pretty much the only type of music you could hear on the Israeli radio those days.

Ofra Haza wore White because it represents life, there were 6 on the stage that represent the 6 million Jews that were murdered and they wore yellow as the yellow badge the jews were forced to wear during the holocaust. The name of the song is called "alive" and it was sung in Germany.

LOVE your reaction , you mad me LOL!!! few notes: 1978 - Israel performing at Germany.. the song was so symbolic. To sing "Israel people alive" only 35 years after the Holocaust.. a very strong sentence from the song: "This is the song of my grandfather, he sang it to my father and today I am". 2000 Eurovision was BUG2000 to everyone here.. it was shame and BAD.. and we didn't got to chose song that year... that song was selected by a committee, closed doors no public opinion... so the community tried something else.. send popular performers.. Some of the big vocalist and performers were sent to the Eurovision contest - Sarit Hadad, Rita, Harel Skaat, Lior Narkis, David D'or, Shiri Maymon, Tipex they are all very popular and successful here ,and there was a feeling that despite that, the winning is close but its not enough.. maybe bcz the selection was made by the performer popularity and not the song? So since 2015 changes were made in the process - using Reality show - giving new and fresh performers a chance to go public, bring something fresh, new, different.. and giving anonymous talented dreamers a chance to represent Israel.. and it worked.. !!! songs became better and better and 3 years later we found NETTA !! so I really hope the selection will remain that way.. I love the process, the new performers and all the BUZZ before the Eurovision and it feels like the poeple at home actually Involved in the selection process of the performance and the song. ♥

fyi the song "hai" was written in reference too the Munich massacre, in which 12 Israeli athletes were killed. and the meaning of it is- alive alive alive the Israeli people are alive.

My top 10 are: 1. Hi; 2. Hasheket She’Nishar; 3. Hallelujah; 4. Amen; 5. KAN; 6. Diva (mostly because of Dana); 7. Toy (though I think Fuego should have won..); 8. Golden Boy; 9. Keilu KAN; 10. Hora. Most horrible for me is indeed 2000...

It was a good & fair reaction, as I find myself agreeing with you. Israel lost interest in ESC for a good 15 years (barring a few good entries like Shiri 2005). They really started to notice it again in 2015. The Tel Aviv 2019 was a great show, and I hope they will win again sometime to go back there. Good review.

My top 5: 1. 2012 2. 1993 3. 1974 4. 1987 5. 2004

From the ESC years I reviewed thus far (2011-2020 and 1956-1983) my fave Israeli entries are: #1 1978 "A-Ba-Ni-Bi" (my 1978 winner and one of my overall fave ESC entries) #2 1982 "Hora" (my 1982 runner-up though I'm thinking of moving this to no.1 where I currently have Germany) #3 1981 "Halayla" (my 1981 bronze medal, behind Cyprus (gold) and Germany (silver)) I really liked their 1973-1983 entries, one of my fave countries at ESC in that period. Not so crazy for their songs from the last decade, though I had their 2015, 2018 and 2020 entries in my Top 10. I still haven't reviewed years 1984-2010, but some of their entries from the 90s look promising, while most of the 2001-2010 look bad from the snippets we saw here.

love all the songs in the video greetings from the country you're reacting to israel

Some Trivial fact about the 1987 Lazy Song by "The Bums": Actually both of these guys are actors who decided to use the pre-eurovision contest as promotional tool for a mutual nationwide show they were scheduled to run with no desire intention to actually win the contest to go perform in the Eurovision. However, then ended up winning it by pure accident after everone just loved the gig.

I absolutely love 2012 also!! My fave israeli entry! :D

I'm so glad someone else likes Time.

Hallelujah is actually in Hebrew. It meen preay the lord

The band Caveret is definitely kind of like the Beatles of Israel

I don’t see how hallelujah is religious. Tbh, I think you’ve understood one word from the song and associated it with religion. The song is about peace and togetherness, love and positivity. To disregard it it as ‘too religious’ is sad and wrong in my opinion. I hope that you will read the words in English and understand their meaning especially given the context of Israel’s history at that time.

In 1996, unlike the previous two years in which a screening was held, and countries that finished in the last places were forced to be absent from the competition, this time the European Broadcasting Union decided to allow any country to apply to participate in Eurovision. 29 countries sent their songs in March 1996, about two months before Eurovision, for a screening stage. In each of the countries, a judging committee was assembled that listened to audio recordings of the songs and scored them, and the seven songs that received the lowest cumulative score were eliminated from the competition. The only country that was exempt from this filtering step was Norway, since it hosted the competition.

I love Kan by the duo team 1991 💗

Halleluyah isn't religious in it's Hebrew lyrics. Like, you are talking without even checking a translation or anything..

The 2000 song made me wanna scream btw love from Israel 🇮🇱

Great video!! Come to israel when possible, israel loves you! P.s shiri mimons song is my favorite of all eurovisions songs ever, i really think its the best

כל הישראלים יורדים לתגובות לחפש תגובות בעברית

2 דברים 1. סרטון נהדר 2. טל סונדק מ2001 היה המורה שלי בבית ספר מקווה שתבינו

Push the button was about Iran trying to build nukes. It was political therefore it was bashed

Roy's swaying is making me feel seasick 😄 There's not many Isreali entries that I dislike but at the same time there's very few which I actually seek out to listen to

The 1980 song won the Israeli song festival, which was used as the Israeli national final in 1978 and 1979, but it was known that Israel would not participate that year even at the time of the songs submission for the 1980 festival, so this song shouldn't be here as it was never selected for Eurovision. It has the same status as the winners of the 2000 Festival da Canção or the 2020 A Dal.

Doutch actualy sounds very much like hebrew lol The Hai song was sung in germany, and it means staying alive - which is why it was so important for many ppl. Also the yellow clothes is the color of the yellow star jews were forced to wear during ww2

I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR YOU LMFAOOO

Gotta say about Milim that people like to use the big failed note as an excuse for its result, which doesn't make sense to me as the song wasn't liked enough to even qualify in the televote in its semi final (IIRC even Sha-la-lie passed it in the televote). overall, loved the video! Chai is my favorite song of ours and definitely an alltime fave in general.

2005 is my fave from israel

Perfect ❤🇮🇱

I dont know why 1980 here.when The Competition ( festival hazemer) that the song won took place yhiswas already known that israel will not participate in eurovision that year. So this song never meant to be in eurovision

not saying i forced roy to praise hi but i forced him to praise hi

Dew to financial difficulties Israel couldn't host the 1980's contest 2 tearsin a row and the date clashed with the hebrew IDF memorial day so Israel had to disqualify itself and the europian union apologized for it. In 1984 the date clashed again with Memorial Day for the martyrs of the IDF. According to Eurovision 1993, it was decided that the six countries that finished in the last six places in Eurovision 1993 would not participate in Eurovision 1994, and this was to make room for the new Eastern European countries that asked to participate in Eurovision, and to prevent a situation where the number of participating countries would reach 30 countries.

My favorites of Israel is 2005(my 2nd place after Switzerland), 2010(my 3rd place after Belgium and Turkey) and 2016(my personal winner that year.) I agree that 2000 was a horrible entry.

I am from israel And this is My top 10 israeli songs in the eurovision: 10. Keilu kan - 2008 And hi - 1983 9. Hallelujah - 1979 8. Kan - 1991 7. A-Ba-Ni-Bi - 1978 6. Natati la khayay - 1974 5. Toy - 2018 4. Ole, Ole - 1985 3. Golden boy - 2015 2. Shir Habatlanim - 1987 1. Hora - 1982

I'm probably the only person in the world who prefers Israel 1982 over Nicole

ישראלים תראו נוכחות חחחחח

In 1980 they (we, lol) withdrew because it was too expensive for us to host it a second time and the holiday the competition fell on was actually memorial day(? I believe it was memorial day, could be holocaust remembrance day too) and obviously they wanted to withdraw. After the national embarrassment that was "Happy" the interest for the ESC died down and the entries were meh at most (excluding Shiri, she was ROBBED) and then came "The Next star to Eurovision" in 2015 which was a huge hit and Golden boy did really well so now it's tradition and how we choose the artist participating.

I totally disagree with you guys on 1973, 1977, and 1987. Ilanit had two good songs, and the Lazy Bums was not that good.

This video aging like milk 😅💀😂

Hallelujah is not a Jewish song. This is completely wrong interpretation.

Netta-Toy is defineatly my least favourite Israeli entry, even 2000 is better :D I really love 2005, 2015 and 2019.