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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1920s  1930s  1940s  - 1950s -  1960s  1970s  1980s
1950 1951 1952 - 1953 - 1954 1955 1956

Year 1953 (MCMLIII
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Rehovot (Hebrew: רְחוֹבוֹת‎, Reḥovot
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Anthem
Hatikvah
The Hope


Capital
(and largest city) Jerusalem

Official languages Hebrew, Arabic
Demonym Israeli
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actor, actress, or player (see terminology) is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity.
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A singer is a musician who uses their voice to produce music. Often the singer is accompanied by musicians and instruments. While many people sing for pleasure, vocal skill is usually a combination of innate talent and professional training.
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Eurovision Song Contest 1979 was the 24th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on March 31, 1979 in Jerusalem, Israel. The presenters were Daniel Pe'er and Yardena Arazi, and the event was staged in the International Convention Center.
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Hallelujah (Hebrew script: הללויה) was the winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 1979, performed in Hebrew by Gali Atari and Milk & Honey for Israel.
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Shosh Atari is an Israeli actress. She is the sister of Gali Atari. She performed in the series Sesame Street.
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Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, and video games. IMDb launched on October 17, 1990 and in 1998 was acquired by Amazon.com.
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Izhar Cohen (born March 13, 1951 in Giv'atayim, Israel) is an Israeli singer and actor.

Representing Israel, he won the 1978 Eurovision Song Contest with the group Alphabeta performing "A-Ba-Ni-Bi" with music by Nurit Hirsh and words by Ehud Manor.
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Alphabeta were a group of Israeli singers who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1978 with Izhar Cohen.

The group consisted of Reuven Erez, Lisa Gold-Rubin, Nehama Shutan, Ester Tzuberi, and Itzhak Okev.

The winning song was called A-Ba-Ni-Bi.
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Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most
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Milk and Honey were an Israeli singing group who performed with Gali Atari at the Eurovision Song Contest 1979, where they won with the song "Hallelujah". They made two further attempts to represent Israel in the contest.
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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1940s  1950s  1960s  - 1970s -  1980s  1990s  2000s
1976 1977 1978 - 1979 - 1980 1981 1982

Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins.

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Johnny Logan (real name Seán Patrick Michael Sherrard) was born in Frankston near Melbourne, Australia, on 13 May 1954 but lives in Ashbourne, County Meath, Ireland.
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Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most
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Lys Assia (born March 3, 1926, original name Rosa Mina Schärer) is a Swiss pop singer. She was born in Rupperswil, Canton of Aargau, Switzerland.

As a young girl she was a dancer, but stood in for a female singer in 1940.
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Corry Brokken (born December 3, 1932 in Breda) is a former Dutch singer.

Brokken won the 1957 Eurovision Song Contest, representing the Netherlands singing "Net als toen" (Like it used to be).
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Teddy Scholten-van Swieteren (May 11, 1926) is a Dutch singer. She won the 1959 Eurovision Song Contest for the Netherlands singing "Een Beetje" (A little bit), with music composed by Dick Schallies and lyrics by Willy van Hemert.
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Jacqueline Boyer (born Jacqueline Ducos, 23 April 1941) is a French singer, daughter of performers Jacques Pills and Lucienne Boyer.

In 1960 she won the Eurovision Song Contest for France singing "Tom Pillibi", with music composed by André Popp and lyrics by Pierre Cour.
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Jean-Claude Pascal (b. October 24, 1927 in Paris, France as Jean-Claude Villeminot. d. May 5, 1992).

After surviving the Second World War in Straßburg, Pascal first studied at the Sorbonne-university and then turned to fashion-designing for Christian Dior.
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Isabelle Aubret (born Thérèse Coquerelle on July 27, 1938 in Lille, France) is a French singer.

Aubret won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1962 representing France and singing "Un premier amour" (A first love) with music composed by Claude-Henri Vic and lyrics by
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Gigliola Cinquetti (born 20 December 1947) is an Italian singer.

Biography

She was born in Verona. At the age of 16 she won the Sanremo Music Festival in 1964 singing "Non Ho L'Età" ("I'm not old enough"), with music composed by Nicola Salerno and lyrics by Mario Panzeri.
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France Gall (born Isabelle Genevieve Marie Anne Gall on October 9, 1947 in Paris) is a popular French yé-yé singer. Her father was lyricist Robert Gall, and her mother, Cécile Berthier, was the daughter of Paul Berthier, co-founder of Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois.
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Sandie Shaw

Background information
Birth name(s): Sandra Ann Goodrich
Date of birth: 26 January 1947 (1947--) (age 60)
Birth location:
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Massiel (August 2, 1947) (real name María de los Ángeles Santamaría Espinosa) is a Spanish singer. She won the Eurovision Song Contest 1968 with the song "La, la, la
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Frida Boccara (October 29, 1940 – August 1, 1996) was a French singer.

Frida Boccara was born in Casablanca, Morocco. At the Eurovision Song Contest held in Madrid, Spain in 1969 she represented France and performed "Un jour, un enfant" (One day a child) - music by
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Lenny Kuhr (born February 22, 1950 in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant) is a Dutch singer-songwriter.

In 1967 she started a singing career in the Netherlands, performing songs in the French chanson tradition.
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Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie, OBE, (born 3 November 1948 in Lennoxtown, Stirlingshire), best known by her stage name Lulu, is a Scottish singer, songwriter, actor, model, and television personality who has been successful in the entertainment business from the 1960s
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