Chai Eurovision Song Contest 1983 - Ofra Haza
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- Chai (Alive) (חי), Eurovision Song Contest 1983; Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle, Munich, West Germany; Saturday, April 23, 1983 - Ofra Haza representing Israel (Second Place, 136 Points) (Dutch version) (Short version).....
While in West Germany preparing for her performance in the Eurovision Song Contest, Ofra and the rest of the Israeli group visited Dachau, the extermination camp of the Nazis. She met there an elderly Jewish couple from Israel who survived the Holocaust.
"Are you Ofra Haza?" asked the husband. "I was a prisoner in this concentration camp and today I came here to visit for the first time since I was freed. We heard your song. On Saturday evening when you sing this song to all of Europe, remember what you see now." Ofra promised to remember.
Ofra and her group also visited the Olympic Village in Munich, where 11 Israeli athletes and coaches were slain during the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Shim'u echai
Ani od chai
Ushtei einai od nisa'ot la'or
Rabim chochai
Ach gam p'rachai
U'l'fanai shanim rabot misfor
Ani sho'el umitpalel
Tov shelo avda od hatikva
Over mizmor, midor l'dor
K'ma'ayan mei'az v'ad olam
Ani sho'el umitpalel
Tov shelo avda od hatikva!
Chai, chai, chai
Ken, ani od chai
Ze hashir shesaba
Shar etmol l'aba -
V'hayom ani.
Ani od chai, chai, chai
Am Yisrael chai
Ze hashir shesaba
Shar etmol l'aba
V'hayom ani.
Homim yamai v'leilotai
Uv'shamai amud ha'esh od kam
Ashir b'li dai [chai chai]
Efros yadai [chai chai]
L'y'didai asher mei'eiver yam
Ani sho'el umitpalel
Tov shelo avda od hatikva
Chai, chai, chai
Ken, ani od chai
Ze hashir shesaba
Shar etmol l'aba -
V'hayom ani.
Ani od chai, chai, chai
Am Yisrael chai
Ze hashir shesaba
Shar etmol l'aba
V'hayom ani.
Shim'u echai, ani od chai
Ushtei einai od nisa'ot la'or
Az ko lechai, l'chawl orchai
Ul'vanai hamevakshim lachzor
Ani sho'el umitpalel
Tov shelo avda od hatikva
Chai, chai, chai
Ken, ani od chai
Ze hashir shesaba
Shar etmol l'aba -
V'hayom ani.
Ani od chai, chai, chai
Am Yisrael chai
Ze hashir shesaba
Shar etmol l'aba
V'hayom ani.
Chai, chai, chai
Chai, chai, chai,
Chai - Ani od chai, chai, chai!
Listen, brothers
I'm still alive
And my two eyes are still raised to the light
Many are my thorns,
But also my flowers
And ahead of me are years too numerous to count
I ask
And pray
It's good that hope was not yet lost
A psalm passes from generation to generation
Like a spring from long ago, and on to eternity
I ask
And pray
It's good that hope was not yet lost
Alive, alive, alive
Yes, I'm still alive
This is the song which grandfather
Sang yesterday to father
And today I [sing it]
I'm still alive, alive, alive
The people of Israel live
This is the song which grandfather
Sang yesterday to father
And today I [sing it]!
My days are full of life
And also my nights
And in my sky the pillar of fire still rises
I will sing endlessly
I'll spread out my hands
To my friends across the sea.
I ask
And pray
It's good that hope was not yet lost
Alive, alive, alive
Yes, I'm still alive
This is the song which grandfather
Sang yesterday to father
And today I [sing it]
I'm still alive, alive, alive
The people of Israel live
This is the song which grandfather
Sang yesterday to father
And today I [sing it]!
Listen my brothers,
I'm still alive
And my two eyes are still raised to the light
So here's to life!
To all my guests
And to my children who seek to return
I ask
And pray
It's good that hope was not yet lost
Alive, alive, alive
Yes, I'm still alive
This is the song which grandfather
Sang yesterday to father
And today I [sing it]
I'm still alive, alive, alive
The people of Israel live
This is the song which grandfather
Sang yesterday to father
And today I [sing it]!
Alive alive alive
Alive alive alive
Alive, I'm still alive alive alive!
Conductor: Nansi Silviu Brandes
Eurovision Song Contest Presenter: Marlene Charell
NOS Commentator: Willem Duys
Television Broadcaster: NOS (Netherlands)
Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (Dutch Broadcasting Foundation)
Broadcast Language: Dutch
Words/Music: Ehud Manor / Avi Toledano
Transliteration: Malka Tischler
Translation: Malka Tischler - Hudba
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For me, this to this day is the best Israel has ever sent to Eurovision. A gorgeous singer with a powerful yet angelic voice and stunning stage presence, and a great catchy tune with the most powerful message. Not many around Europe knew at that time what the song symbolized: A young Jewish girl standing on a German stage less than 40 years after the holocaust, singing about her people still being alive. Even the costumes reflected the notorious yellow star. The beauty of it is that instead of being angry and depressing, the song is cheerful and most of all proud. I remember myself a child watching this live, my first ever Eurovision song contest. I wanted her to win so badly! Today I think that 1983 was simply an outstanding ESC year, all top4 songs were winner material and probably some others too. So 2nd place was still a great achievement. RIP beautiful Ofra!
Interesting! Thanks for the info!!!
it is even more powerful message - she was an Israeli Arab!
After Dana International of course.
I know Im kinda randomly asking but do anyone know of a good site to watch newly released movies online?
@Abdullah Gideon I watch on Flixzone. Just google for it =)
Singing "Am Israel Chai" - Means The Israeli nation is still alive - is so emotional, while it was sang on the a german land. This is a legand, and Ofra was an amazing singer. RIP Ofra
Especially in these days. It gives me goosebumps
Also that we're still here, not just Israel. Us as Jews.
@@amshaf91absolutely
"Hi"- not are "chai"
If this song was Israel's pick for the Eurovision 2024, it would have been deemed too political by the EBU. Shame on you Europe. Am Israel Chai
Hilariously, very possibly thanks to the attempts at silencing and the forced rewrites, the Israeli Entry for ESC 2024 is , for my money, the best entry of the year. A song way above the general level of ESC today. so you know..moral victory, and cultural victory goes to ..Israel!Am Yisrael Chai indeed!❤
@@reddragonready I couldn't have put it better myself. Am Yisrael Chai! 💙💙💙
Egyetértek veled én magyar vagyok,de ennek a dalnak nyernie kellett volna!Ofra hihetetlen jó hangú énekesnő volt! Nagyon szeretem és ma is hallgatom legtöbbször a héber nyelvű dalait.Ofra él!!!
Well, just remember that the public voting got Israel 12 points in many countries this year - the public is obviously much less anti-Israel than the panels and artists.
@@walterjoshuapannbacker1571 Incluso España le dió 12 puntos a pesar de un gobierno comunista y socialista que apoya a Hmas. Ánimo para Israel
It’s outrageous that this song didn’t win
The symbolism of this song is incredibly powerful. Here's a beautiful Jewish woman singing in Hebrew in Germany, a country whose Nazi regime tried, just 40 years prior, to brutally erase the existence of the entire Jewish people and culture from the continent. Yet, here she stands, alive, the back up singers wearing yellow as sign of defiance and pride, not humiliation. Nazi ideology failed, Jewish people and culture persisted and thrived. חי חי חי
שלום 💙
Well said, my friend
Amen💖✡️
@mirela dumitrascu Wtf?
@mirela dumitrascu I think you misunderstood my comment. Your statement (although hard to understand) was so incomprehensibly stupid that it is on an entirely lower level. I would imagine that a talking dog could form a more intelligent statement. Perhaps the Neanderthals hadn't gone extinct after all. What an amazing discovery!
@mirela dumitrascu Oh please tell me how you have this amazing knowledge that no one else has. Please, go on. Tell me what exactly you meant because, in all honesty, I barely understood your first comment.
I am nostalgic about the time when each country sang in his language.
I agree they have to bring it back, the mostly english songs have kind of ruined the eurovision for me
Enter Name Here Agree, so true
I agree too, for me it was better than all the songs in english
Agreed, if anything countries like Serbia and Portugal have showed that it's not impossible to win singing in your own language 🥰
But sorry.Because it is unfair to a lot countries.UK,Malta and Ireland will kill them just like the 90s.
One of the best runner-ups ever, R.I.P Ofra
She should've won. She was better than the winner from Luxembourg.
why do you have the LGBT flag? Don't call yourself pro LGBT when you don't support all LGBT people. You clearly do not support palestinians
@@MiguelSagunto since when is Palestine LGBT? Say that you're gay in Palestine, good luck.
@@royestondsouza4069 I AGREE 👍 WITH YOU. LUXEMBOURG 🇱🇺 DIDN'T DESERVE TO WIN. OFRA HAZA WAS 1000 TIMES BETTER THAN CORINNE HERMES.
@@giorgosfylaktou2610 seriously!! What was the judging panel thinking. Ofra was on another level.
I always get so sad. We (the world) lost such an amazing singer far too soon. There was something so magical about her! She transcended borders. I still listen to her amazing voice daily. Love from Morocco!
Do the moroccans allow Jewish/Israeli singers to be heard? I know the Jordanians and Egyptians do not.
@@TheBlueyedblond There's no such ban in Morocco as in the Middle East. Jewish/Israeli singers have performed in Morocco at different festivals. The right hand of the King of Moroccan (current and former) Andre Azoulay is Jewish and he has a great influence on restoring and maintaing Jewish history and Jewish Moroccan traditions in Morocco.
@@TheBlueyedblond That isnt true. Ofra was huge in the Arab world and she had fans send her love letters. She herself said so.
Love to Morocco too!! ❤️🇲🇦
@@TheBlueyedblond I am from Jordan and listen to a lot of Hebrew and Yiddish music.
What do you mean that Jordan doesn't allow them to be heard? I was not aware of this. Do you mean that it is illegal for them to perform in Jordan or do you mean that listening to Israeli music is banned in Jordan?
The best Eurovision of all time.
The Real Winner, what a meaningful song, amazing singer, lyrics and orchestra. Chai, Alive for the world to listen! Love from México.
2024... after October 7, Am Yisrael Chai🇮🇱
Am Yisrael Chai!!!
AM YISRAEL CHAI!
Yes!!
Od Avinu Chai! 😊 Amen
🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱
The hatred in Sweden needs to end! 😠🔥
I'm 50/50 Persian / Swedish 🇮🇷🇸🇪 Mizrahi Jew and I stand with Israel til the day I die. 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱
עם ישראל חי!!!!
This song was a true winner.
Saw her in person when I lived in Israel. She was beautiful. Love her voice.
Really? But I guess she died before I was born and I'm 20 now
This for me was the winning song in 1983. I still remember it clearly. Israel's best entry also. Such a beautiful soul. R.I.I Ofra.
I AGREE 👍 WITH YOU. ISRAEL 🇮🇱 DESERVED TO WIN, NOT LUXEMBOURG 🇱🇺.
I agree that this was and should have been voted as the winning song and had the good fortune to have watched the competition then while in Israel. My memory is that Greece and some other countries dishonestly and discrimanantly gave Israel low numbers which caused the song and Ofra Chaza to come in second place.
@@donsable3880 YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT AND I AGREE 👍 WITH YOU. THE LOW POINTS GIVEN TO ISRAEL COST THE WINNING PRIZE.
CHAI CHAI CHAI
AM YISRAEL CHAI
All the love to Israel, from a Swedish Jew 🇸🇪❤️🇮🇱
The sweetest voice and face in Eurovision! Love from Cyprus!
Love from israel🇨🇾🇮🇱💖
A lady with an incredible charisma. So sad that she didn't win. Nice that she made a great career a few years later. R.i.p.
In Portuguese we say this is a song with "big ears", that is a song that easily stucks in your head.
its amazing to see israeli Jewish sing loder "im still live live live" in germany.. 6 milions were murdered there. but we are still live. "ham Israel Hai! im still a live ! " - Israel nation is still alive. im pray - good that the hope is still not lost. amazing
Chana Bayla It’s 2020, Germany is a great country with great citizens.
John Doe okay and this was in 1983 lol
@@meirabarenholtz5524 And in 1983 Germany gave Israel 10 Points.
TODAY JEWS ARE NOT AFRAID FROM SHOAH. WE HAVE COUNTRY, OUR HOMELAND, ARMY, AND WE HAVE VERY GOOD LIFE HERE. czcams.com/video/Ujoc-tjJfQEA/video.htmlEL. -- THIS IS TEL AVIV. --
Psychic Nikki from Canada predicts a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv 2021 predictions !
For me this is the best Israeli entry ever. The song, the singer, the performance, the meaning. In any other year it would have won by a landslide. 1983 had at least 4 winner material songs (the top 4) and all 4 were winners to me.
Should have won!!! Amazing!!!!
What a beautiful voice. Rest in peace, Ofra! :'(
She sang this because she was a Jewish girl that lived during the Holocaust and now she is here, in Germany, 40 years later singing about she and her people are still alive.
Alive
Listen, my brothers, I'm still alive
And both my eyes still look into the light
Many are my thorns, but also my flowers
And I have countless years ahead of me
I ask and I pray
Good thing hope is not yet lost
A song is passed from generation to generation
Like a eternal spring
I ask and I pray
Good thing hope is not yet lost
Alive, alive, alive
Yes, I'm still alive
This is the song that Grandpa sang yesterday to Dad
And today it's me
I'm still alive, alive, alive
The Nation of Israel is alive
This is the song that Grandpa sang yesterday to Dad
And today it's me
My days rumble (Alive, alive)
As do my nights (Alive, alive)
And in my skies, the pillar of fire still stands
I'll sing forever (Alive, alive)
I'll reach out my hands (Alive, alive)
To my friends from across the seas
I ask and I pray
Good thing hope is not yet lost
Alive, alive, alive
Yes, I'm still alive
This is the song that Grandpa sang yesterday to Dad
And today it's me
I'm still alive, alive, alive
The Nation of Israel is alive
This is the song that Grandpa sang yesterday to Dad
And today it's me
Listen, my brothers, I'm still alive
And both my eyes still look into the light
So kudos to all my guests
And to my sons who ask to return
I ask (I ask)
And I pray (I pray)
Good thing hope is not yet lost
Alive, alive, alive
Yes, I'm still alive
This is the song that Grandpa sang yesterday to Dad
And today it's me
I'm still alive, alive, alive
The Nation of Israel is alive
This is the song that Grandpa sang yesterday to Dad
And today it's me
Alive, alive, alive
I'm still alive, alive, alive
born in 57
❤ Jésus-Christ Adonai Yeshua Amashi nissi Alpha Oméga
She was Yemenite
@@katiegriffin9354 israeli her parents were from yemen she was israeli
@@katiegriffin9354 yeah sorry guys i was totally wrong
Wonderful singer. She is greatly missed.
Hugs and kisses from Turkey should have won
Best voice ever in Eurovision
She deserved to win.😔
Great, amazing Ofra Haza. Wherever you are, God bless you!!
Bylevan LG :She's dead since 2000.Rest her In Peace...
Yes, rest in peace. She was a great singer and a ver y beautiful woman!
I’m always speechless and emotional when listening to this incredible song which means so much to me - as Jewish and as Eurovision fan
Absolutely marvelous: her eyes, here voice, her style... everything was absolutely marvelous. Her version of "Yerushalayim shel zahav" should be world heritage. WE ALL MISS YOU, OFRA.
Never again! Am Yisrael Chai! 💖
Gosh was beautiful lady and song . Great backing singers / dancers ., . Rest in peace dear Ofra . God Bless you good lady . X 🙏🇮🇱❤️
Rest in Peace Ofra Haza!!!!!
she was so beautiful!
OMG!!!!!! This song and her singing voice is so beautiful!!!!!! I feel like it was a mistake to not let her win!!!!!!
Ofra Haza is a very gifted singer. Only got better with age!
judge fel onto sleep onto sleep
@@fzb5383 I agree! She got better with age, not to say this wasnt good, this was great! However, no matter how good wine is, it just gets better with age.
It was A BIG mistake indeed!
The winner Corinne Hermès deserved her victory. Good singer, good song. I like Ofra too.
Как же они прекрасны...Чудный год 1983...
Спасибо Офре за счастье, которое она подарила.
Extremely emotional.
I get tears also by the 100th times that I hear Ofra Chaza singing "CHai".
Love and respect from India.
simply love this song and Ofra Haza voice
J'ai découvert une merveille ce soir là. Madame Ofra Haza.Merci.
OMG I am so happy I found this again after all these years! My sister had some cassette tapes featuring all the participating songs and I listened a lot to those tapes, but this song I have not heard for well over 30 years! Should really have been number one. What a great song and what a beautiful woman, may she rest in peace.
Ofra Haza forever 💓
Shim’u, echai, ani od chai
Ushtei enai od nisa’ot la’or
Rabim chochai, ach gam prachai
Ulefanai shanim rabot misfor
Ani sho’el umitpalel
Tov shelo avda od hatikva
Over mizmor midor ledor
Kema’ayan me’az ve’ad olam
Ani sho’el umitpalel
Tov shelo avda od hatikva
Chai, chai, chai, ken, ani od chai
Ze hashir sheSaba shar etmol le’Aba vehayom ani
Ani od chai, chai, chai, am Yisra’el chai
Ze hashir sheSaba shar etmol le’Aba vehayom ani
Homim yamai (Chai, chai)
Velelotai (Chai, chai)
Uveshamai, amud ha’esh od kam
Ashir bli dai (Chai, chai)
Efros yadai (Chai, chai)
Leyedidai asher me’ever yam
Ani sho’el umitpalel
Tov shelo avda od hatikva
Chai, chai, chai, ken, ani od chai
Ze hashir sheSaba shar etmol le’Aba vehayom ani
Ani od chai, chai, chai, am Yisra’el chai
Ze hashir sheSaba shar etmol le’Aba vehayom ani
Shim’u, echai, ani od chai
Ushtei enai od nisa’ot la’or
Az ko lechai lechol orchai
Ulevanay hamevakshim lachzor
Ani sho’el (Ani sho’el)
Umitpalel (Mitpalel)
Tov shelo avda od hatikva
Chai, chai, chai, ken, ani od chai
Ze hashir sheSaba shar etmol le’Aba vehayom ani
Ani od chai, chai, chai, am Yisra’el chai
Ze hashir sheSaba shar etmol le’Aba vehayom ani
Chai, chai, chai
Ani od chai, chai, chai
Thank you for the lyrics. The pronuntiation is similar to spanish so I can sing it even thoug I don't understand it. Anyway I will look for a translation. This song is amazing.
merci je vais pouvoir réviser mon hébreux !!
@Nibbler800 Just look in the video description
There is the Hebrew lyrics and the English translation
Thank you for the lyrics in Hebrew....in English. Now I can sing it....beautiful anthem. Love you and miss you Ms Haza.
amazing song of an amazing singer!!! she will live forever in her music!!!
What a cruel fate was waiting for this amazing artist 😢❤ RIP Beautiful
She was amazing... what a Talent!
She was amazing!
אלוהי❤
beautifull voice Ofra :(
Back in the days when this was live on TV i was a little boy 13 years of age and i was sure that Ofra Haza must be the most beautiful woman I have ever seen, and its a great song.❤
Israel won with Netta but not with this?
This is my favourite all time Israel EVC song! It's so catchy! And Ofra Haza is lovely in every way. I miss her!
Doesn't make sense whatsoever.
it's all a nazi plot
with 5 place i think
@@asimolok Second place
Predivna pesma, i neponovljiv glas Ofra Haze.
Predivna pesma i moćna poruka
Ofra haza thank you so much for your amazing talent from the start to the last days of your life you didn't know how much the world loved you RIP SWEET ANGEL OF MINE
Just watched 2021 Eurovision & just wanted to play this again 💜🧡💚💛❤️
I still love this song and this singer!
Uma das mais belas canções que conheci em Hebraico, uma interpetraçao perfeita de Ofra Haza! Simplismente emocionante!!
Sim amigo, mas é verdadeiramente uma pena que ela já está morta por causa do canalha do seu marido que foi infiel a ela e a contaminou com o vírus da AIDS sem que ela soubesse, por isso ela logo veio a falecer em 23 de fevereiro de 2000, triste 😭😭😭😭😭
CETTE CHANSON EST MAGNIFIQUEMENT SPLENDIDE WONDERFUL AM ISRAEL HAI GOD BLESS ISRAEL TSAHAL LéHAIM 1983 SHMUEL
I love her. She left way too soon. I love her Yemenite songs.
Memories for great Ofra, her voice and
unicat lady!
Good days when artists used to sing in their own language in Eurovision song contest
Love Ofra Haza, she was such an inspiration for me growing up
Israel was in both 1982 and 1983 my winner... So sad that none of these pearls won
Ja he snap het niet de jury viel liever in slaap
Rest in perfect peace, beautiful Ofra.
Friendship is a must.
Most beautiful woman ever!
this was the first eurovision i saw and i was a 13 year old girl. I remember this performance and I was amazed and I wondered Israel must be a beautiful country, because the song that led to the ESC is beautiful, the singer is beautiful, the choreography is the clothes.
לשיר על אדמת גרמניה אני עוד חי
עם ישראל חי 💪🏼
אין מרגש מזה
AMAZING ISRAEL !
RESPECT FROM SERBIA !
Serbian people support PALESTINE u dont represent serbian people
Love u from Israel 🇷🇸🇮🇱💖
@חירבוש אה נכון😂😂.
I LOOOOOVE THIS SONG SO PREFECT FROM ONE BIGEST VOICE
Israel forever ❤❤❤❤
Why didn't she win that year? She was fantastic.....
Every time I listen and watch this video I find it amazing but I cannot help geeting also sad thinking of the short life of this incredible, wonderfull and outstanding singer.
Today - 19 years without Ofra
:((((
NYLUB it’s 20 starting March
Belle chanson, belle voix, magnifique Ofra Haza!
amazing, rip Ofra
my ofra haza i love you!
On a solemn day such as this, I needed this song.
Im in tears
How I loved and followed her
Saw her perform Beacon theater1986
עמישראל חי
Per sempre Ofra Haza. Forever and ever Ofra Haza.
22 years ago today the world lost an amazing singer. I’ve loved her music my entire life. Ironic and heartfelt that I came across this video today of all days
Ofra, I love You forever ♥️♥️♥️
עם ישראל חי ! FOREVER I STAND WITH YOU ISRAEL !
GO TO ISRAHELL
@@atifkotia8434 literally why watch this vid then
Free Palestine
@@MiguelSaguntofree gems in clash royale
Very-very good song! Thanks.
Oh Ofra, Israel needs you more than ever! ❤️
True...But Israel is stronger than ever! And OFRA is still a powerful inspiration. Peace to all of you.
Ein sehr schönes Lied
My favourite ESC song and performance, ever.
RIP Ofra.
How did I never know that Ofra Haza competed in Eurovision until today?!
Also WHY DIDN'T SHE WIN!?
People have been asking themselves that since 1983. She definitely should've won - she was only 6 points unlucky!
BECAUSE SOME COUNTRIES DIDN'T GIVE THE POINTS ISRAEL DESERVED, MAINLY POLITICAL REASONS, AND UNFORTUNATELY THE POINTS HAD GIVEN TO LUXEMBOURG WHICH DID NOT DESERVE TO WIN, THAT'S THE MAIN REASON.
love it!!!!!!
Very great perfomance!
Ofra haza died at 42 just like the king elvis presley at 42 what a beautiful duo they make in heaven love you both very much RIP MY LOVES
She should have won.From Britanny in France
Twenty-two years of her death today, February 23rd, 2022. How I miss her...
... my Winner 1983 forever..
Long life to Israel!❤
The most beutiful girl ever in ESC beside france 1991.
Besides Sweden 1991... 😂
עם ישראל חי!!!
Love it.