"Nadlik Beyakhad Ner" (Hebrew script

Hebrew alphabet

The Hebrew alphabet , known variously by scholars as the Jewish script, square script, block script, or more historically, the Assyrian script, is used in the writing of the Hebrew language, as well as other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, and Judeo-Arabic. There have been two...

: נדליק ביחד נר, sometimes translated as "We'll Light a Candle Together") was the Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002

Eurovision Song Contest 2002

The Eurovision Song Contest 2002 was the 47th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place on 25 May 2002 at the Saku Suurhall Arena in Tallinn, Estonia....

, performed in Hebrew

Hebrew language

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 and English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 by Sarit Hadad

Sarit Hadad

Sarit Hadad is an acclaimed Israeli singer. She stems from a musician family with both origins in the Tunisia and Caucases...

.

The song is a ballad, with Hadad exhorting her listeners to join her in lighting candles, in order to shine light into the darkness of fear and hopelessness.

The song was performed tenth on the night, following FYR Macedonia

Republic of Macedonia

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's Karolina

Karolina Goceva

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 with "Od nas zavisi

Od nas zavisi

"Od nas zavisi" was the Macedonian entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2002, performed in the Macedonian language by Karolina....

" and preceding Switzerland

Switzerland

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's Francine Jordi

Francine Jordi

Francine Jordi is a Swiss pop singer.As a young child she was already singing songs for the Japanese tourists in Interlaken. With this musical background she won the German Grand Prix der Volksmusik in 1998 with the song Das Feuer der Sehnsucht...

 with "Dans le jardin de mon âme

Dans Le Jardin De Mon Ame

"Dans le jardin de mon âme" was the Swiss entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2002. It was performed in French by Francine Jordi, who also composed the song....

". At the close of voting, it had received 37 points, placing 12th in a field of 24.

It was succeeded as Israeli representative

Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest

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 at the 2003 Contest

Eurovision Song Contest 2003

The Eurovision Song Contest 2003 was the forty-eighth Eurovision Song Contest, held at the Skonto Hall in Riga, Latvia on 24 May 2003. The hosts were Marie N and Renārs Kaupers. Sertab Erener, the Turkish entrant, won the contest with "Everyway That I Can", scoring 167 points. The winning...

 by Lior Narkis

Lior Narkis

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 with "Words for Love".