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) call the next album Milk and Honey." The cover is an alternative take from the same photo session that produced the front cover of "Double Fantasy", though this time it appears in color. After a falling out with David Geffen, whose Geffen Records had initially released "Double Fantasy", Ono moved future projects to Polydor Records, which initially released "Milk and Honey". EMI, home of Lennon's entire recorded output—including that with the Beatles—acquired this and all Lennon releases in the late 1990s. Predictably, the reaction to "Milk and Honey" was less fanatical than the one that greeted "Double Fantasy", but it