{"id":10366,"date":"2019-05-05T11:02:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T08:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2019\/05\/05\/izhar-cohen-alphabeta-a-ba-ni-bi-israels-first-eurovision-victory-paris-1978"},"modified":"2019-05-12T22:12:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T19:12:14","slug":"izhar-cohen-alphabeta-a-ba-ni-bi-israels-first-eurovision-victory-paris-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2019\/05\/05\/izhar-cohen-alphabeta-a-ba-ni-bi-israels-first-eurovision-victory-paris-1978\/","title":{"rendered":"Izhar Cohen &#038; Alphabeta: A-Ba-Ni-Bi &#8211; Israel&#8217;s 1st Eurovision Victory (Paris, 1978)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pOH-sojmLJY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>This video present&#8217;s Israel&#8217;s winning song in the 1978 Eurovision Song Contest in Paris, &#8220;A-Ba-Ni-Bi&#8221; by Izhar Cohen and Alphabeta. The up-tempo disco song explores the way in which humans relate to love, expressing it discreetly and selectively as children and then learning that love should be expressed confidentially\u00a0and to all of humanity as adults. The cryptic chorus is &#8220;I love you&#8221; in the made-up &#8220;Bet language,&#8221; the Hebrew equivalent\u00a0of Pig Latin, where each syllable is repeated with the letter &#8220;bet&#8221; replacing the consonant.\u00a0<\/em><em>After the win, Jerusalem hosted the contest in the following year, marking the first time that it would take place outside of Europe. Israel&#8217;s contestant, Gali Atari &amp; Milk and Honey, won the contest the following year with their song &#8220;Hallelujah,&#8221; making Israel the third country to win twice in a row. The English lyrics are provided below. To see the Hebrew lyrics, <a href=\"https:\/\/lyricstranslate.com\/en\/abanibi-%D7%90%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%91%D7%99-ba-ni-bi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>A-ba-ni-bi<\/h3>\n<p>Chorus (x3)<br \/>\n<em>A-ba-ni-bi o-bo-he-bev <\/em>(I love)<br \/>\n<em>A-ba-ni-bi o-bo-he-bev o-bo-ta-bach <\/em>(I love you)<\/p>\n<p>When we were children<br \/>\nWe would love in secret<br \/>\nWho were we nice to?<br \/>\nOnly to uncles and aunts<\/p>\n<p>And the poor girls suffered<br \/>\nThose sweethearts, they&#8217;d just get beaten up<br \/>\nAnd what we really felt<br \/>\nWe whispered only in the Bet language<\/p>\n<p>Chorus (x2)<\/p>\n<p>Love is a beautiful word<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a wondrous prayer, it&#8217;s a language<br \/>\nLove is good to me<br \/>\nIt will always overcome<br \/>\nAnd we shall speak in a language of love<\/p>\n<p>Chorus (x2)<\/p>\n<p>I dream and I wake up to three words<br \/>\nAnd what is the world? \u2013 Three words<br \/>\nAnd that is how I feel now<br \/>\nJust like back then, in the Bet language<\/p>\n<p>Chorus (x5)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video present&#8217;s Israel&#8217;s winning song in the 1978 Eurovision Song Contest in Paris, &#8220;A-Ba-Ni-Bi&#8221; by Izhar Cohen and Alphabeta. The up-tempo disco song explores the way in which humans relate to love, expressing it discreetly and selectively as children and then learning that love should be expressed confidentially\u00a0and to all of humanity as adults. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":10367,"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\/10366\/"}],"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=10366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10366\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10367\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=10366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=10366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=10366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}