"Derekh Hamelekh" was the Israel

Israel

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i entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1989

Eurovision Song Contest 1989

The Eurovision Song Contest 1989 was the 34th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 6 May 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Switzerland gained the hosting rights after Celine Dion's victory in Dublin the previous year. The presenters were Lolita Morena and Jacques Deschenaux. Riva was the winner of...

, performed in Hebrew

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 by Gili & Galit.

The song deals with the singers' joy on traveling down "The King's Road" - a Biblical

Bible

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 reference. They sing that this is the only road they will ever travel in their lives.

The song was performed second on the night (following Italy

Italy

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's Anna Oxa

Anna Oxa

Anna Oxa is an Italian singer of Albanian descent, well-known through her numerous appearances in the televised Italian song contest, the Sanremo Music Festival. In 1978, at the age of sixteen, she took second place with the song "Un'emozione da poco" at the Sanremo Festival...

 & Fausto Leali

Fausto Leali

Fausto Leali is an Italian singer, famous for his rough and aggressive voice, in sharp contrast with Italian melody conventions. Due to his voice, he is nicknamed "The black white" .-Beginnings:...

 with Avrei voluto

Avrei Voluto

"Avrei voluto" was the Italian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1989, performed in Italian by Anna Oxa & Fausto Leali....

 and preceding Ireland

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's Kiev Connolly & The Missing Passengers with The Real Me

The Real Me (Eurovision song)

"The Real Me" was the Irish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1989, performed in English by Kiev Connolly & The Missing Passengers.The song is a moderately up-tempo number, with Connolly singing about his lover leaving him. He explains that what she sees is "the real me", and that she needs to...

). At the close of voting, it had received 50 points, placing 12th in a field of 22.

The performance was marred by a slight lapse of Gili's memory as he finished singing the second verse. He recovered well, and performed the rest of the song flawlessly.

It was succeeded as Israeli representative

Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest

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 at the 1990 Contest

Eurovision Song Contest 1990

The Eurovision Song Contest 1990, the 35th in the series, was held in Zagreb, Yugoslavia on 5 May 1990. The presenters were Helga Vlahović Brnobić and Oliver Mlakar. Toto Cutugno was the winner of this contest with the song "Insieme: 1992"...

 by Rita

Rita Kleinstein

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 with Shara Barkhovot

Shara Barkhovot

"Shara Barkhovot" was the Israeli entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1990, performed in Hebrew by Rita....

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