I love how Dana International predicted Netta's win in Eurovision in Israel Calling :) she said, "there is room for one more Diva and her name is Netta" :)

@Wiwibloggs

5 жыл бұрын

OMG YESSS!

@andreaketa717

5 жыл бұрын

YAAASSS

I believe the 1978 conductor, Nurit Hirsh, was the first female to conduct at Eurovision

@JohnnyHS

5 жыл бұрын

Indeed. She directed Ilanit's score on '73, making her the first.

@mayamills5174

5 жыл бұрын

Not quite, Sweden narrowly beat her to it. In 1973 Nurit Hirsh conducted song number 17, but Sweden had Monica Dominique as their conductor and they were song 12 - so Monica is the first female to conduct at Eurovision and Nurit is the second. She is the only female conducter of a winning song, though.

A former Israeli who grew up in 1970’s Israel here. I think to understand winners it’s important to look at Eurovision entries in their historic context. Israel won in 1979 and especially with a flowery song like Hallelujah partly because that was the year that the peace talks with Egypt went into high gear. Europe was beginning to see Israel in a different light and loved them for it.

@Wiwibloggs

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this insight! It's very interesting to read! Love from London.

So much Great Music my Tiny wonderful country Have produced to this contest and for that im VERY Proud to be Israeli in Eurovision ❤️🇮🇱

Israel 2008, Boaz Mauda "The fire in your eyes" - that song was written by Dana International. So she has 1998, 2008 and 2011.

@Wiwibloggs

5 жыл бұрын

realmenchangediapers oh wow. It’s w great song 😍🔥👀

@matan4il

5 жыл бұрын

@@Wiwibloggs The lyrics in Hebrew also has a GLBTQ side to it that was sadly lost in translation when the lyrics were translated into English - Boaz is singing a love song to a guy, which is evident in Hebrew, where he's using the masculine 'you' rather than the feminine one.

Love u 2 from israel See u in tel aviv💜

@Wiwibloggs

5 жыл бұрын

See you soon my dear!! Thank you for the music :)

@valeriaabramov8026

5 жыл бұрын

היי

Israel the best! 🇮🇱❤️

@Wiwibloggs

5 жыл бұрын

They've sent some great entries for sure!

@miriamichai158

5 жыл бұрын

Jeni ena 🇮🇱❤️

"a-ba-ni-bi" song means "I love you", in "Beta" language (adding extra letters on purpose) - So it will be a secret

This morning I saw Dana International in the supermarker near my apartment on my way to work, wearing a robe! :D Living in Tel Aviv, I see many celebrities, it doesn't excite me too much anymore, but god this DIVA...! A legend ♥

I hope no one actually thinks "A Ba Ni Bi O Bo E Be" means "I want to be a polar bear" XD

@screamtoasigh9984

5 жыл бұрын

But I can't help thinking it every time I hear it (it's the Israeli version of Pig Latin).

@user-wh2nt5ce5r

5 жыл бұрын

But that is what it means (THEY MUST NEVER KNOW)

Nurit Hirsch (the conductor) actually received a special award at this year's Israel Calling.

Love their winners from all the decades. And love your reaction. My all time favourites are their entries from 1982 and 1983, though!

The song hallelujah was about saying thank you for everything for the world for the song for the words for everything that was and everything that will be its all for good

You guys sound like you have never ever listed older Eurovision songs.

You should appreciate more this old gold music with live orchestra! These were days whun pure music rulled and not stagong or drama on stage

3:00 , shalom from Israel ! ♥️

A-Ba-Ni-Bi The words of this song are just stunning! A song is about love display between young kids in the "B" language... so spacial and cute.. "Ani Ohev othach" - means "I love u". In the "B" language: "Aa (ba) - ni (bi) - O (bo) - hev (bev) - O (bo) - tach (bach)" It's their way to say "I love u" in a way that it will be a secret...

There are people like me from the 70s that are clutching our pearls that you even question these two Eurovision mega songs! Lol

I love your reactions to Israel

Wiwibloggs💜💜

@Wiwibloggs

5 жыл бұрын

Andre Lukas Farrugia Thank you for watching !

@escfanforever569

5 жыл бұрын

I enjoy every single video of yours. Thank you for everything you do.Eurovision is not the same without wiwibloggs for me. Y'all the best and greetings from Malta❤

Are you going to do a video about the controversy surrounding Bulgaria potentially withdrawing as well as Australia's newly announced national final

@Wiwibloggs

5 жыл бұрын

Bulgaria should be confirming some final details soon and we will put out a video just as soon as they do. Maybe as soon as tomorrow.

I LOVE all of them, but my ranking is: 1. Diva 2. Halleluyah 3. Toy 4. Abanibi

The thing I realized watching this is that Israel's party songs like toy or golden boy aren't a new thing, A-Ba-Ni-Bi-O-Bo-E-Be and Diva are both upbeat, party songs before all! actually, out of the 4 wins, 3 of them are party songs. Also, all the winning songs had some Hebrew in them, the first 3 are completely in Hebrew, while Toy has one sentence in Hebrew + Israeli slang. I don't think any other country beside Israel and Ireland has its native language in ALL of its songs.

@suuunshine27

5 жыл бұрын

Well it makes sense, we sent only like 4 songs that were completely in english throughout the years

@pedromiguelr

5 жыл бұрын

Portugal has portuguese in all songs that went to Eurovision! :)

@donaldlace3209

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the only song :)

I LOVE the Israeli winning songs and unlike you 2 I think Hallelujah is a BRILLIANT song and absolutely should have won and it's true that year 1979 had AMAZING songs , I understand why Aba-Ni-Bi won but it is NOT my favorite song at all and actually Ole Ole by Izhar in 1985 should have won too... Netta is absolutely phenomenal!!! everything about her and the song was beyond winning same as Dana both wins are breakthrough in Eurovision history which is WOW really WOW....you must admit even the haters that Israel had amazing songs thru the years with amazing result for such a small most hated country and I am proud BUT my ALL time favorite that should have won, best performance ever and I guarantee you guys if the voting system was same as this year change, SHIRI MAIMON 2005 would have WON!!!

YOU SHOULD LISTEN (and maybe do a reaction video?) to Netta's version of Abanibi. I think she managed to show that the song has an underlying charm that allows it to shine in more than one format...

Call me crazy, but what I still listen to Dana International...'Cinquemila' I mean, or however it's written. Timeless

1978 is my favourite :)

4) 1998 - Symbolic win, but the song is just too generic. Way preferred Croatia and Norway. 3) 2018 - It stood out and Netta sounded great, but I still think the song is a tad overrated. 2) 1978 - Catchy and fun disco tune. One of my favorite winners! 1) 1979 - Excellent melody and harmonies. An all-time classic!

I’m dying that this appears to be the first time you both saw this 1979 Milk & Honey performance! LOL! As far as the only song that could have beat it - well that’s the song that came second the immortal ‘Su Cancion’ from Spain.

fun fact, Devon is wearing a Marshall headphones that have a bi-directional Cable connectors on both sides so they don't really need to used the a audio spillover, they can just connect another headphone to the left side of the Marshall and the PC to the right

"The recap"... Bless 'em.

The best israeli eurovision song was in 2014 "same heart" of Mei FInegold.

I can't believe it's almost been half a year

@Wiwibloggs

5 жыл бұрын

Tobias Gemini Rigjt? Time flies!

Israel start ESC 73 Ilanit Ei Sham Lyrics : Ehud Manor Melody : Nurit Hirsh

20:42 that's actually a Maneki-Neko from Japan. It is a very famous thing there :) I bought it when I visited Germany!

All number 1 for me I simply can't choose XD

Thank you for this video! You guys should do this way more often! Winners, maybe even a compilation of all of a country's entries? My rankings 1: 1978 1.1: 2018 1.2: 1998 1.3: 1979 I feel like each of these winners are so amazing and it's (to me) insulting to rank them so far apart from each other. I will say I am a sucker for the 70s and 1978 is the one where I will dance and smile and just bop non stop on repeat! The orchestra just makes me melt and I long for the orchestra to play songs like the 1978 entry! 1998 and 2018 are both amazing modern pieces that are basically side by side. 1979 was my least favourite, but remains to be emotional and loving!

1) 1978 2) 1979 3) 1998 4) 2018

79 was the year of the Israel Egypt peace treaty. It caught the moment in more hopeful times

Why dont you react to 2024 entry?

netta no 1 love her

1) 2018 2) 1978 3) 1998 4) 1979

Israel 2008, Boaz Mauda "The fire in your eyes omg number 1 1 11 1 1

I love you 💕 ❤️😘guys so much

You should react to all of Israel entries ever

So pleased to see you getting use out of your splitter 😀💋

@Wiwibloggs

5 жыл бұрын

GIFT OF A LIFETIME! You have revolutionised our videos. THANK YOU!

Hallelujah reached No5 in the UK Charts. The most successful Israeli entry ever.

22:50 Has it already been determined that the contest will be held in Tel Aviv and not Jerusalem?

Did Diva really begun a worldwide movement? I was just a kid back then, so I do not remember and I'm curious about it.

@Wiwibloggs

5 жыл бұрын

She started a major discussion about transgender issues and representation. And most especially in Israel.

@HeyHey-yn8cw

5 жыл бұрын

I don’t know about worldwide, but in Europe her victory was a major talking point. The world economy was picking up, millennium fever was taking off, and her win was part of Europe wanting to be more progressive, more modern. It shouldn’t be overstated, but yes it was a “moment”.

@TH2714

5 жыл бұрын

@@HeyHey-yn8cw Thank you for your explanation! It makes me wish I had been older and thus able to be part of it!

01. DIVA

1978 .1 1979 .2 2018 .3 1998 .4

Israel was robbed in 2011 I also love Croatia 1998 (My favourite entry of all time)

@Wiwibloggs

5 жыл бұрын

LOOOOOVED DING DONG!

@Its_Oliver_

5 жыл бұрын

Ding dong was amazing, Croatia 1998 was also robbed

@mayamills5174

5 жыл бұрын

I'm Israeli and I think Ding dong was garbage. Dana was obviously smug, returning to Eurovision with a song more suitable for an Ice cream truck tune, and didn't even bother to work on half decent choreography or video art. She herself was great stage-presence and charisma wise, but it wasn't enough to sell this train wreck of an entry.

@user-ei5sb1om6h

5 жыл бұрын

Actually Israel was robbed in 2005, 2015 and 2017 when we sent good enough songs which deserved to win! 😕

@Its_Oliver_

5 жыл бұрын

I don't like 2017 tbh. 2013 was also robbed

When Dana won I was 4 when my nephew was 4 Netta won. Yep there's a 20 year difference between the 2 of us.

a ba ni bi number 1

1. 1979 2. 1978 3. 1998 4. 2018

1 hallelujah 2 toy 3 abanibi 4 diva

Izhar Cohen, Gali Atari and Dana International are all Yemen-Jews, and until May 2018 the perception in Israel was that only Yemenis can win Eurovision for Israel. And than came Netta, who is of a mixed European-North African-Iraqi if I'm not mistaken, and broke the paradigm!

@alonplayminecraft

5 жыл бұрын

Well technically in 79 it's was Gali Atari and Milk and honey, which wasn't all Yeman,

Kids - you two should be more worldly before commenting on international artists and music. Izhar Cohen has a REAL afro because he is of Yemenite descent.

I need more Deban in my life! Someone please invent DebanPills!

'Halleluya' 1979 with Milk and Honey was also achived TOP-5 in the 'To of the Pops'-UK just one week after the 30.3.79 ESC, further than any Israerli Song ever. and higher than world wide ariits that time like: Mccartney, The jackson 5, and many great other artists...'Halleluya' also riched No.1 in : Sweden, Irland, Norway, Finland . here is an amazing Live performance of the song in the UK-chart: Halleluya-is a worldwide classic song! kzread.info/dash/bejne/a62esNVtcpeTe7g.html

Come join the cult... 😳😂 Oh Deban, so funny

I like sittin here like u guys haven’t heard these songs before? Like i be 15 and i can sing all the words to all of them gurl😂❤️

Everyone: Dana international : kleopatrrrrrra

1979 peace with egypt so the song was in the point

DANA INTERNATIONAL.

I love israel 🇮🇱 ❤️

מי שישראלי ליק

Anne-Marie David songs reaction :D

You are so cute ! :-))

אללה ישראל

Troy as no1 than Dana Internatinal and then maybe Izhar Cohen

2:38 cool here we nickname it the "jewfro" :)

Croatia 98 🇭🇷 was the best Croatian song ever in ESC

Don’t take this as an insult but you talked through the whole video, I couldn’t hear anything at all. I love watching reactions but not when people talk though it. WELLL THAT WAS IT

Hunny

79 was when Israel signed peace agreement with Egypt and hope was eternal in Europe. Israel was poor economically and didn't want to host next year so they made sure they lost in 80.

@hadasshakti

5 жыл бұрын

They did not compete in 1980 at all.

@CraftyComeLately

5 жыл бұрын

You're right. I forgot. i just remembered they didn't want to win another year because they couldn't afford to host again.

it was called a jewfro

It’s an Afro not a Perm

The only winning song from Israel I like is 1979.... Weird top sorry :/ mine is 1. 1979 2. 1978 3. 1998 4. 2018

חחח צ'לום גם לכם

You are the gayest guys I've seen in my life. It's fantastic.

OMG deban how could you say Dana's voice was on point?? It clearly wasn't... It hurts my ears every time. I think it's great she won though. But her voice was definitely not on point. don't lie!

Este año William no hace ni caso a Israel, espero que cuando fue a Tel Aviv a cubrir Eurovisión lo pasase bien, con todas las libertades de un pais como Israel, libertades con las que ahora quieren acabar sus enemigos, donde el antisemitismo que silencia a Israel es parte de ese ataque a un pais de libertades y progreso. Siempre con Israel 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

All these songs suck. Commenting after winning is like talking about someone who died and everyone starts saying positive things