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  • Papa papa. Bendy bendy.

    Papa papa. Bendy bendy.

    Thank you very much.

  • My papa is an angry bird...!

  • I want to be a polar bear!

  • Israeli Eurovision singers condemned as 'traitors'... A Jew and an Arab lined up to be Israel's Eurovision Song Contest entry may have to pull out of the competition after suffering a torrent of abuse and condemnation. Israeli-Arab singer Mira Awad and Israeli-Jewish singer Achinoam Nini, who has performed with Sting, are under pressure from critics ranging from Right-wing Jews, to Palestinians and even Israeli peace campaigners. .. Maybe that's one reason why Israel will never again win the ESC

  • Bravo great song, Shalom Israel:)

  • what is the liric? can anyone write in english?

    I remember this and I like it very much? in my childhood.

  • what is the liric? can anyone write in english?

  • gay

  • @papezas Good As You

  • GREAT GREAT I think it was the first time in the eurovision that a group actually moved while singing, definatly a defining moment in the history of eurovision

  • I LOVE IT!

  • I also want to be a polar bear!

  • a lot better then the junk you see nowadays on TV! KUDOS!

  • אני גר בישראל

    I live in Israel

  • hahah i cant get how this song won the Eurovision:D

    it has no meaning or something else.

  • @TheSuka29 it does have a meaning. its just in a language that isnt official

  • @matthoenn every vowel of every syllable gets repeated with be in the front.

    abanibi = ani (=I, me)

  • @timomastosalo I know. It isn't technically Hebrew.

  • @matthoenn Well... Which language then :) It's a version of Hebrew, 'dialect' or jargon if you please. Many languages have these secret or code languages. Finnish - my language - has so called kontinkieli

    ('kontti language') For example Ani ohev otcha = (Minä) rakastan sinua. In kontinkieli it goes: (Kona mintti) Kokastan rantti konua sintti. That's how this song was translated when I heard and saw this as a kid :)

  • @timomastosalo You have the same in English, Pig Latin. Itay ookslay ikelay histay = It looks like this. You don't call it English though, because that would be weird.

  • @matthoenn Yeah, yeah - if somebody mentions 'English' or any other official language, we think it as a comprehensible standard language, or a dialect of it. But linguistically, any artificially made language, like the ones we've talking about, is based on some understandable natural language, and the meanings + the way of thinking of that language are along in t hat artificial language.

  • @timomastosalo Yeah I understand, but you wouldn't call it the natural language. Nonetheless, it still sounds awesome.

  • @timomastosalo So for this kind of a language we can use the name, nick name, given to it, e.g. Pig Latin, and that is easier when talk about it in the every day usage. - but what this language IS, is English artificially changed. They are a linguistic group of their own, cause they wouldn't exist without the mother language - they are not languages on their own. :)

    But - sorry about the linguistic bla bla: let's enjoy this song now! :)

  • קול שיר תותח אבני בי אבו אבה 

  • Israel in ESC??????

    Why Israel in a Europe song contest?

    Asia song contest!

  • mientras israel cantaba argentina salia campeon del mundo por primera vez en un mundial!!! que loko no jajaja 

  • 1st place Waterloo

    2nd place Ah-Bah-Nee-Bee

    3rd place L'oiseau et l' enfant

    4th place Mel blu Dipinto Di Blu

    5th place Nocturne

    6th place Fairytale

    7th place Diva

    8th place Hallelujah

    9th place My Number One

    10th place Everyway that I can

  • @nicksotir My places: 1st: Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah (Finland) 2nd: Eimear Quinn - The Voice (Ireland) 3rd: Domenico Modugno - Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Italy) 4th: Johnny Logan - Hold Me Now (Ireland) 5th: Vicky Leandros - L'Amour est Bleu (Luxembourg, but she's Greek) 6th: Secret Garden - Nocturne (Norway) 7th: Toto Cotugno - Insieme (Italy) 8th: Mari Mata Hari - Lejla (Bosnia) 9th: Katrina & the Waves - Love Shine a Light (UK) 10th: Alexander Rybak - Fairytale (Norway) (11th: Tatu Russia)
  • שיר נוסטלגי ואהוב

  • My favourite all-time Eurovision Winner, just ahead of Waterloo :)

  • SHALOM VERY NICE SONG TOV TODA

  • when a song comes on stage like this, every one else may as well go home because the contest is over!

  • I still haven't got over Izhar's resemblance to 10cc's Graham Gouldman!

  • We used to sing" I wanna be a polar bear"! Fits just as well!

  • @oceanoverview in Greece we sing: Ah-Bah-Nee-Bee our sheeps are saying beeeeeh! :D

  • this song is still played at almost every jewish wedding

    great tune

  • Israel is in the European Broadcasting Region, and is a full member of EBU - hence them being entitled to be in the contest. Morocco also entered, in 1980, and both Tunisia and Lebanon have intended to enter.

  • soy bulgara i he escuchado la cancion en gran hermano espana i me he encantado!!!!!!!!!!

  • It's a sort of "secret" childern's language called "Sfat ha'Bet" (the B-language). They speak it so that grown-ups won't understand. So instead of saying "ANI OHEV OTACH" (I love you) they say: A-ba-NI-bi O-bo-HE-be-V O-bo-TA-ba-CH. In an English B-language, "I love you" would sound: abai lobove youbou. Ubundeberstoobood?

  • because we are europian in all those contests.. Eufa Champions league, EURO..

  • Why does Israel participate in the Eurovision Song Contest instead of a Middle East Song Contest?

  • The Best Of The Best....LOVE FROM ISRAEL

  • :O :O :O :O its really cool :D

    greetings from ireland :D

  • I love this song ... I remember in France we bought the record even if we didn't understand the lyrics. Can someone give the lyrics and what they mean? I think this is a love song.

    Does ah ba nee bee means I love you in hebrew? Sounds exciting!

    Long live Israel.

  • it's a kid's way of saying things that are a secret. placing a "B" after every movement. for example, "Im so gay" would sound like "Abaim - Sobo- Gabay" so that only the ones expecting a secret would understand, and the rest would pick it as Gibberish.

    What he is saying in the "B" secret language is "I love, I love you" Abanini - me (A'ni - me in Hebrew)

  • @valerie16000

    YES it is i love you but it's mix of hebrew and the b language i don't really know what it means but my mom knows and she told me it...hope i helped you

  • @rotemsh1 it means "I Love You" - אני אוהב אותך - Ani Ohev Otach

  • @Beitar8J

    I KNOW THAT'S WHAT I WROTE :)

  • awesome song!!! Israel is awesome!

  • In Jordania the Winner of the night was the belgian song, Politics..

  • Brilliant Euro Song Contest times - I don't remember the 70s but the 80s I do. Nothing like cheesy dance routines, trumpets a-blasting (in so-called pop songs!), women looked like women, men also looked like women, matching outfits and hair that has been hairsprayed into submission. More more fun than the EuroSongContest now.

  • And let's not forget the conductors dressed like penguins and looking suitably somber for the occasion, plus the male singers with their shirts open at the top and a pendant. The stages looking like a church hall decorated with tinsel - another must!

  • Sencillamente, Maravillosa, fue, es y será una referencia. Felicidades

  • How funny I rem the words.. not ` i wanna be a polar bear though. Fab entry for 78!

  • One of the best clasics.

  • Lovely song !!!!

  • best eurovision song!!

  • Classic Eurovision! The first song to win a contest for country that isn't in Europe and a beginning to golden times for Israel on ESC (1978-1985, ironically from one Ishar Cohen's entry to another)!

  • very good song!

  • great song!

    why do everyalways say fuck?!

    r u stupid or something?

    great song!

  • *snoring...*

  • Great song, my English friend thought they were singing "I want to be a polar bear", haha, lol

  • @dymproductions looool I think they're saying «I wanna be a polar bear... I wanna be a polar bear or a narwhal.» xD

  • ISRAEL 12 POINTS! WINS EUROVISION!

    The Good Old Days Will Come Back Again, G-d willing!

    Wonderful Memories...

    This played on American radio that whole spring and summer, incredibally!

    Shalom!

  • fuck all who hate israel!!

    Israel acts according the security of the country against all the terrorist that make crimes... those terrirsts come from Lebannon, Syria, Iran and all the fucking nations who hate israel... fuck off everybody

  • I Absolutely love it. Why can't we make songs like this for the eurovision anymore...

  • Burn in hell you fucking nachi!!!

  • @nmgscp

    Shut up fucking stupid victim

  • I wanna be a polar bear......

  • yes what

  • They just wanted to make fun of Eurovision LOL

    They didn't want to win :-) Truly :-)

  • @kvaker1981 Are you talking about this song and this act? Of course they wanted to win and they weren't making fun on the Eurovision. This song was very typical of its time. Almost Boney M-like. It was an obvious winner from the start.

  • @BluebirdintheSky It's what they said not that long ago, when they were asked about Eurovision :-) Heard it myself :-)

  • @kvaker1981 DUMBASS RETARD WITH NO BRAIN. DONT SPEAK AGAIN

  • Am yisrael chai!

  • the best of all songs

  • @princesspepsi1 i like song.

  • They look like the Osmans. I guess that was the time period :)

  • israel forever

  • what happen at 0:50

  • @kulebilder ???????????????

  • I wanna be a polar bear~

  • maan this song has such a f'cking cool sound Ah-Bah-Nee-Bee XP

  • This was something else! The only thing,must,was a shot of the drummer doing his stuff.What a man!

  • where was the eurovision that year?

  • Was in Paris (France)

  • Awesome, thanks for posting. I have had this song stuck in my head for years - took me ages to find out where I knew it from! Thank you :-).

  • this song is so popular here in greece....even now 30 years later!!

    love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • que desfasada, que mal le sienta el paso del tiempo

  • One of big favorites songs from ESC...

  • yea yea yea man she tops.. Muslims can sing see she is one top chick..did it get to number one in Syria that year

    i must go now and get my gun ...

  • BIg HIT in Greece

    Shalom Israel!

  • @mastouris69

    shalom shalom =]

    

  • I have it too on same CD! Realy great song!!!! Gali Atari was took part also on ESC 1985. in Bergen This is a really great song! This the first victory of Israel!

  • Shalom ! Please see this ! !! !:

    אנא המתן הזה  ! שלום

    יהודית ילדה מתאסלמים

    watch?v=ZZ45jWmyPBo

  • i like it, i had it for ring tone xaxaxa

  • GREAT SONG!!!

    ITS REALLY FUNKY and GOOD

  • The translation of the bizarre lyrics from 2:20 to 2:25 is " and those poor girls were suffered, those sweets got only blows .."

    Despite of those words I really excited when I was 13 years old to ween at the first time at the Eurovision contest ..."

  • XD err, no, the lyrics are "the poor girls suffered, the sweet ones [as in cute] only got hits"<---as in, a boy that likes a girl pulls her hair (it's true, sadly)

    That's why the "I love you" part is said in the "secret" language kids use, because most boys won't admit liking a girl outright.

  • the song keeps spinning in my head, such a great song it is!

  • catchy song

  • אני זוחרת כשהייתי קטנה, אבא שלי היה שר לי את השיר הזה. אחד השירים הטובים.

  • Still a nice song... has been one of my top favorites since it was on eurovision.. to tell the truth I love this song... (also the language..)// NOW I will get all my arab and muslim friends angry at me.. but I like this song.. did it win for nothing..??? //But about Israeli POLITICS.. (I will not start herea again about that.. but my opinion of the politics are NOT the same as for this sing...)

  • Not gay: 70s. Those dudes surely more chicks in the craziest bareback gangbangs you could ever dream of. The glorious 70s: no AIDS, no restraint. Only fun, fun, and more fun. You can't understand.

  • yofi, 78 v'od pa'am b-79

  • אני זוכר השיר תמיד פעמים ברדיו ב1978

  • THE BEST!!!

  • from the danish schools in 1978.:  jeg skal skide, jeg skal bæ, og jeg kan ikke få mine underbukser af ! :P

  • I want to be a Polar Bear ! lol !!!!!!!

  • Веселая песня, очень нравится

  • But I still like this song though... :-)  (Will I get minus also..? :-) Ok I don´t care... but this is a great SONG...)

  • So great!

  • good song

    of course coming from Israel is a crime no?

  • AWSOME SONG!!!

  • my comment isn't specificly about you, it's about everyone. have you watched another israeli videos? all videos are spammed with politics. why people have to involve their politic mind on each israeli video. just watch and skip to another one...

  • I agree with you about that...!

  • And also I am not THAT interested in talking about the Israeli politics etc... (I have had ENOUGH of that in my own life..when I long time ago..was friend with a ortodox jewish girl and at the same time my man/boyfriend was a VERY religious arabic muslim... and it was not THAT funny to be all the time in between them...(In one way funny.. because they said EXACLTLY THE SAME things about each other-- I think they should shake hands instead talking bad about each other!!)(They are so much alike..)

  • And even I give a plus to you... (but as I said: I am not THAT interested in talking about Israeli politics... not in this video also not in other... what does talking help? Esp. when that everything you say will be misunderstood...)

  • fantastic 5***** thanks for sharing turkkisy hi massimo

  • you are so right!

  • it's really a shame to hear about politics and hatred things about israel on a song in a video.

    no one asked haters to show their opinion. comment on this song, not any more about how you hate israel.

  • I don´t HATE Israel...(if we talk about me..) (who knows MAYBE I have jewish blood myself??) Critical comments about Israeli POLITICS must not automatically mean a person hates Israel... Yes.. okey it´s sad that I started this commenting about politics... (in fact that was NOT my intention from START..! It only went like that...)

  • dünyanin en vahsi milleti israildir sionisttir evrimlesememis yaratiklardir daha ALLAHi bile bilmeyen lanetli bir kavimdir laneilaleyh..

  • ég fór á bíóbarinn ber, ég fór á bíóbarinn ber með banana

  • This is so greatt!! It makes me happy... (I like the positive energy in this song.... I can nearly can not sit still!) (Thank´s Israel... you should do more THESE things...)

  • You are so right. They keep choosing the wrong people ~_~

  • And with THESE things I mean (so don´t give me any plus before you know what I mean..): That they should do MUSIC instead of those things what is happening in Palestine (agains the palestinian ppl..)(Like this or not...! I say it anyway...)

  • It's Hamas' fault, not ours.

  • And what America should do instead of the things it's doing against Iraqi people? I know your news even don't show what American soldiers is doing there. Israel Is declared country and we have the right to defend ourselves!! However, what America is doing in Iraq and Pakistan? Why America invaded Vietnam.... VERY interesting!!

    מדינת ישראל חייה ותחייה לנצח!!!!!!!

  • Yes I agree with you.. what is America doing in Iraq and Pakistan...? And yes I have seen horrible pictures what ppl do... I have an arabic channel at home (I´m not an arab).. and the pictures shown from the Israeli war against Palestine wasn´t nice... (have YOU seen those pictures.. You call it to defend yourself...??) The best defence for Israel would be to treat their neighbours (Palestine) well.. and treat them like equal human beings... that is the best defence...!

  • ich liebe nicht sionizm und military israel!

    ich bin muslem und alle muslem welt meine bruder aba militarish israel noch nicht sivilisation sein..normaleweise alle welt in menschlich brauch, krige scheise..

    musst beace ist leben alle land und welt!..

  • Jaa das ware korrekt... (yes I agree with you)

  • You know how many time Israel tried to reach to a situation when arab and israeli people will leave in peace?... how many caught terrorist have been sent out of israeli jails... in your opinion, who provides them water, gas, electricity? And one day, whan israeli government said: we wont stop untill you stop firing rockets toward our citizens everyday. they didnt, and IDF "invaded"(its Israeli territory) Gaza and started an operation for 22 days.

  • Akandyba.. Well I don´t know in detail everything what happens there... and of course maybe it was not so clever of (was it Hamas?) to fire rockets against Israel... (because that will not help much.. as we did see..) And of course I don´t support suicide bombers.. (but in one way I can understand desperate ppl do desperate things...!)(What would YOU do it the situation was the other way round...?) Anyway I hope for peace between Israelis and Palestinas...!

  • Oh... and sorry I maybe political comments here again... but then the person who has put this video here can just take away my comments... (that´s ok!) (My INTENTION anyway from START was not to comment about country Israel... and sorry I did... but sometimes some things are very important.. and it happens like this...)

  • i wanna be a polar bear,

    i wanna be a bear that wears a wonderbra

  • עכשיו תמיד אזכור את הגירסה שלך!

    :-)

    :-)

    :-)

  • i wanna bee a polar bear,

    i wanna be a polar bear just like your mum!

  • LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!

  • Wonderful and timeless song! Bravo Nurit!

  • I wanna be a polar bear just like your mum

  • it is my uncle!!!! =P זה דוד שלי חחח

  • and your ass is facism =]

  • Wonderful song!!

  • I wanna be a polar bear . lol

  • I wanna be a polarbear,

    I wanna be a polarbear for moustapha,

    I wanna be a polarbear,

    I wanna be a polarbear for moustapha!

  • XDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXD­XDXDX!!!

    Incredibly Hysterical LOL!!

  • what is his name and how old was he there?

  • i am supriised irsalie still have time to sing they should be in war during 1978 its a ncie songgg now is resing by a taiwannese singer

  • israel wasnt at war at the time and anyway that never stopped them participating.

  • thansk mannnn i wont know this song mann the taiwan sing this song to sing chinese version of course but he sing Ah-Bah-Nee-Bee beee we were like what language is it sound so gooood ^_^ goood song

  • the song is in hebrew (israel). But the first words "aba ni bi - bo no ta bah" its like children who said to each othe "i love you" but scrambling these words so adult wouldn't understand. Like saying "ih lol ve yoh ou" instead of "i love you"

  • i seee i seee mann this word is so famous in hk noew beause used is a song for a game show in hk haha i got what u mean man hahaah sometimse its fun to say i love u direct way so people easiler to remember good song i was norn in 1978 to hahha

  • Classic!

  • Nice Song !

  • who sings this sings this?

  • Izhar Cohen & Alpha-Beta

  • As Dave Lee Travis said at the time.

    Sounds like 'I want to be a Polar Bear, I want to be a Polar Bear Oh yes I do'

    Now with those words in your head listen to the song again.

  • lol that rught siunds really like:

    i wanna be a poer bear(no L there though..)

    awesome song anyway

    שיר מעולה חבר'ה חבל"ז על שנות ה-70~80

  • great song ... peace for israel!

  • love love love Israel.....

  • I hate Greece too.

  • But it's not me who kills Palestinians

  • you can could never even harm a fly.

  • Yeah but it's you who tried to take over the world few hundred years back while killing milions.

  • Don't mind these idiots, my friend. They thrive on the anger they arouse from people from either Israel or who is Israel-friendly. It's a stupid popularity troll thing.. As I said before Israel still stand strong and ALONE all by herself after more then 60 years.. history speaks for itself..

  • Whats your problem with Greece??? Tell us...

  • Mr. nesgate13 & his buddy RedNationalist7 came from Greece with an hostile attitude against Israel and I didn't like that. Now what's your problem? Why don't you "tell us"?

  • my problem with whom??? i dont hate anybody.... its you who hates..... and i was just curius to know the reason....greatings from Greece!!!!!

  • I don't hate anyone. You asked? But I supposed you accused me too. And it's spelled "greetings", now does that make me a hater as well?