Years > Eurovision Song Contest 1979
Contest details
Location: Binyaney Ha'ouma, Jerushala'im, Israel
Broadcaster: IBA
Host(s): Daniel Pe'er and Yardena Arazi
Participating countries: 19
Voting: Each country allocated 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point to the top 10 of the national jury in descending order.
Participants
Eurovision Song Contest 1979
| country | participant(s) | song | pts | rnk | ||
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10 | Israel | Milk and Honey | Hallelujah | 125 | 1 |
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19 | Spain | Betty Missiego | Su canción | 116 | 2 |
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11 | France | Anne-Marie David | Je suis l'enfant-soleil | 106 | 3 |
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9 | Germany | Dschinghis Khan | Dschinghis Khan | 86 | 4 |
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4 | Ireland | Cathal Dunne | Happy man | 80 | 5 |
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3 | Denmark | Tommy Seebach | Disco tango | 76 | 6 |
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17 | United Kingdom | Black Lace | Mary Ann | 73 | 7 |
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7 | Greece | Elpida | Socrates | 69 | 8 |
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1 | Portugal | Manuela Bravo | Sobe, sobe, balão sobe | 64 | 9 |
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8 | Switzerland | Peter, Sue and Marc and Pfuri, Gorps and Kniri | Trödler und Co. | 60 | 10 |
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16 | Norway | Anita Skorgan | Oliver | 57 | 11 |
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14 | The Netherlands | Xandra | Colorado | 51 | 12 |
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13 | Luxembourg | Jeane Manson | J'ai déjà vu ça dans tes yeux | 44 | 13 |
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5 | Finland | Katri-Helena | Katso sineen taivaan | 38 | 14 |
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2 | Italy | Matia Bazar | Raggio di luna | 27 | 15 |
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6 | Monaco | Laurent Vaguener | Notre vie, c'est la musique | 12 | 16 |
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15 | Sweden | Ted Gärdestad | Satellit | 8 | 17 |
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12 | Belgium | Micha Marah | Hey Nana | 5 | 18 |
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18 | Austria | Christina Simon | Heute in Jerusalem | 5 | 19 |
Click here for a full crostable of the votes (available after the contest)
Eurovision Song Contest 1979
Turkey withdrew from the contest for this year as several Arab countries were against a Turkish participation in a contest staged in Israel. 19 countries took part and some of them had artists that returned to the contest or that would return afterwards such as Tommy Seebach, Elpida, Peter, Sue & Marc, Anne-Marie David, Anita Skorgan and Katri-Helena. Spain was the last country to cast it's votes. At that moment Spain was in the lead with 1 point more than Israel. Spain gave 10 point to Israel and so for the second time in a row Israel won with "Hallelujah".