Like in many of my videos, I have amended some graphics but have tried to keep them sympathetic to the era. I have attempted to add graphics in Hebrew but please note I used Google Translate for this as I do not speak it myself (hope it's not too dodgy). I also tried to add end credits. I am aware of a video online that says it is the end graphics for Eurovision '79 but as they don't appear on any other video apart from that one and not on other official recordings (and as I can't read Hebrew), I chose not to add these as I can't be sure what it says on screen, even though there appears to be a screenshot of what Turkey's postcard would have been.

The Eurovision Song Contest 1979 was the 24th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Jerusalem, Israel, following the country's victory at the 1978 contest with the song "A-Ba-Ni-Bi" by Izhar Cohen and the Alphabeta. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Israeli Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the contest was held at the International Convention Centre on 31 March 1979 and was hosted by Israeli television presenter Daniel Pe'er and singer Yardena Arazi. This was the first time that the Eurovision Song Contest was held outside Europe.

Nineteen countries participated in the contest with Turkey deciding not to participate after Arab countries had pressured it into not participating in a contest held in Israel. Yugoslavia, who had missed the 1977 and 1978 contest, also did not want to take part nor transmit the show this year for political reasons, despite a poll held earlier in which almost 100,000 people declared that they wanted Yugoslavia to return to the contest.

info source: Wikipedia.

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