Hallelujah (Gali Atari and Milk & Honey song) Hallelujah (Gali Atari and Milk & Honey song) "Hallelujah" (Hebrew script: ) was the winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 1979, performed in Hebrew by Gali Atari and Milk & Honey for Israel. The group was formed for the purpose of performing in the contest when the song's original performers, the band Hakol Over Habibi (similarly made up of a female lead vocalist and three male backing vocalists), declined the opportunity to sing it. This was the fourth occasion on which the host country had won the contest (Switzerland, Spain and Luxembourg had achieved the feat before this) and
Milk and Honey (album) was still well received, peaking at No. 3 in the UK and No. 11 in the US, where it went gold. Jack Douglas, who had co-produced "Double Fantasy" with Lennon and Ono, also had input into the initial sessions for "Milk and Honey", though Ono declined to credit him after their professional relationship soured following Lennon's death. In 2001, Yoko Ono supervised the remastering of "Milk and Honey" for its CD reissue, adding three bonus tracks and a 22-minute excerpt from Lennon's last interview in the late afternoon of 8 December 1980, hours before his death. The bonus tracks include