{"id":10339,"date":"2019-05-06T09:24:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T06:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2019\/05\/06\/ofra-haza-chai-2nd-place-in-eurovision-munich-1983"},"modified":"2019-05-12T22:11:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T19:11:07","slug":"ofra-haza-chai-2nd-place-in-eurovision-munich-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2019\/05\/06\/ofra-haza-chai-2nd-place-in-eurovision-munich-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"Ofra Haza: Chai &#8211; 2nd Place in Eurovision (Munich, 1983)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tqPGYSWnSFg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>This video present\u2019s Israel\u2019s entry in the 1983 Eurovision Song Contest in Munich, \u201cChai\u201d by Ofra Haza. The song earned Israel second place in the international\u00a0competition for the second consecutive year. The up-beat, optimistic song celebrates the resilience of the nation of Israel in the face of challenges, a people and country that continue to live and sing from generation to generation, despite our tumultuous history. The song took on particularly profound meaning, as it was performed in Munich, Germany, the backdrop to the Holocaust and the Munich Massacre, when eleven Israeli Olympic team members were killed by Palestinian terrorists during the 1972 Summer Olympics. Haza&#8217;s five backup dancers were dressed in yellow costumes, reminiscent\u00a0of the yellow stars that the Jews were forced to wear on their clothes prior to the Holocaust.\u00a0<\/em><em>The lyrics of the chorus in Hebrew and the complete\u00a0<\/em><em>English lyrics are provided below. To see the complete Hebrew and transliterated lyrics,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lyricstranslate.com\/en\/%D7%97%D7%99-alive.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ll-3-1\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u05d7\u05d9, \u05d7\u05d9, \u05d7\u05d9<br \/>\n\u05db\u05df, \u05d0\u05e0\u05d9 \u05e2\u05d5\u05d3 \u05d7\u05d9<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-3-2\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u05d6\u05d4 \u05d4\u05e9\u05d9\u05e8 \u05e9\u05e1\u05d1\u05d0 \u05e9\u05e8 \u05d0\u05ea\u05de\u05d5\u05dc \u05dc\u05d0\u05d1\u05d0<br \/>\n\u05d5\u05d4\u05d9\u05d5\u05dd \u05d0\u05e0\u05d9<\/div>\n<h3>Alive<\/h3>\n<p>Listen, my brothers, I&#8217;m still alive<br \/>\nAnd my two eyes are still raised to the light<br \/>\nMany are my thorns, but also my flowers<br \/>\nAnd ahead of me are years too numerous to count<br \/>\nI ask and I pray<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s good that hope was not yet lost<\/p>\n<p>A psalm passes from generation to generation<br \/>\nLike a spring from long ago, and on to eternity<br \/>\nI ask and I pray<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s good that hope was not yet lost<\/p>\n<p><i>Chorus:<\/i><br \/>\nAlive, alive, alive &#8211; Yes, I&#8217;m still alive!<br \/>\nThis is the song which grandfather<br \/>\nSang yesterday to father<br \/>\nAnd today I [sing]<br \/>\nI&#8217;m still alive, alive, alive<br \/>\nThe people of Israel live<br \/>\nThis is the song which grandfather<br \/>\nSang yesterday to father<br \/>\nAnd today I [sing]!<\/p>\n<p>My days and nights are full of life,<br \/>\nAnd in my sky the pillar of fire still rises<br \/>\nI will sing endlessly<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll spread out my hands<br \/>\nTo my friends across the sea.<br \/>\nI ask and I pray<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s good that hope was not yet lost<\/p>\n<p><i>(Chorus)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Listen my brothers, I&#8217;m still alive<br \/>\nAnd my two eyes are still raised to the light<br \/>\nSo here&#8217;s to life! To all my guests,<br \/>\nAnd to my children who seek to return<br \/>\nI ask and I pray<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s good that hope was not yet lost<\/p>\n<p><i>Chorus&#8230;.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Alive alive alive (2x)<br \/>\nAlive, I&#8217;m still alive alive alive!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video present\u2019s Israel\u2019s entry in the 1983 Eurovision Song Contest in Munich, \u201cChai\u201d by Ofra Haza. The song earned Israel second place in the international\u00a0competition for the second consecutive year. The up-beat, optimistic song celebrates the resilience of the nation of Israel in the face of challenges, a people and country that continue to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":10340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[2670],"tags":[2671,2409,2665,334],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10339\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=10339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10339\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10340\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=10339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=10339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=10339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}