Eurovision 1978 Results: Voting & Points

Eurovision Song Contest 1978 result: Israel won with the song "A-Ba-Ni-Bi" by Izhar Cohen and the Alphabeta with 157 points

Date: Saturday 22 April 1978
Location: Palais des Congrès, Paris, France
Broadcaster: TF1
Hosts: Denise Fabre & Léon Zitrone

Voting: Each country's jury awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs

Interval act: Stéphane Grapelli and Oscar Peterson, Yehudi Menuhin, Kenny Clarke and Nils Henning Ørsted Pedersen

From 1978 to 1998 the rules stated that each country had to sing in one of their national languages

Titles of songs have included Boom Bang-a-bang (UK, 1969), A-Ba-Ni-Ba (Israel, 1978), Bana Bana (Turkey, 1989) and Bourn Badaboru (Monaco, 1967)

In 1978 Jordan showed some flowers instead of the Israeli entry on their screening of the show. When Israel went on to win they pretended it was Belgium