1979 Habibi - Halaila 1982
Dublin, Ireland
Eurovision position: 7th with 56 points

Habibi at Eurovision 1981


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Kdam Eurovision 1981Daniel Pe'er- The 1981 Kdam presenter
Date: 3 - 03 - 1981
Presenters:Daniel Pe'er
Venue:IBA TV Studios, Jerusalem.

Kdam Eurovision 1 9 8 1
Pos.ArtistTitlePnt.Dl
1Hakol Over HabibiHalaila (Tonight)91
2SextaSinderela75
3Avi ToledanoCarnaval69
4"Milk & Honey"
With Le'a Lupatin		Serenada (Serenade)61
5Mike BurshtainSviv Kol Ha'olam (Around the world)57
6Igal BashanTen Li (Give Me)55
7Eitan MasuriEtmol (Yesterday)35
8Irit BolkaMona Lisa31
9Hedva AmraniBo Elay (Come To Me)24
10Shlomo Gronich
& Dafna Armoni		Kleidoscope6
10Miri AloniHaitz (Border)6
12Gery AkershtainAya Vedan (Aya and Dan)4

'Sexta' - 2nd
2nd
Sexta		 Avi Toledano - 3rd
3rd
Avi Toledano		 Hedva Amrani - 9th
9th
Hedva Amrani

The Kdam
 The winning song this year was "Halaila" (Tonight) sang by the band 'Hakol Over Habibi', a name which means in a free translation "Everything passes my friend". Their Eurovision nick-name was "Habibi".
The group is made up by one female singer, Shlomit A'haron, and three males: Yuval Dor, Ami Mendelman and Kiki Rotstein.
Shlomit sang the winning song while she was in the 7th month of her pregnancy at the date of the 1981 Kdam and was in the 9th (!!) month during the performance in the Eurovision.
Avi Toledano, who came third with "Carnaval" had represented israel in the following year (1982).