[1] Previously, she had represented Israel in 1976 as a member of Chocolate, Menta, Mastik, who finished sixth with the song "Emor Shalom".

For 1988, seeing as she had a high stature in Israeli popular music and still wished to compete, the IBA decided it was only fair to let her automatically take the slot as the country's representative, and use the national final to select her song.

IBA held Kdam Eurovision 1988 27 March 1988 at its studios in Jerusalem, hosted by Rivka Michaeli.

As the story goes, when Arazi was initially approached to compete in Ireland, she consulted with her psychic, as she was very superstitious and wanted to be sure it was the right call.

However, Arazi was reportedly still in high spirits during her week in Dublin, and Israel left with a very satisfactory seventh place among twenty-one competing entries.