A cover version by one of Israel's most popular singers Sarit Hadad resulted in controversy over music styles and ethnicity, involving one of the band's members, other artists and Israeli parliament figures.

With humour and irony, the song deals, at least in part, with the power of love and its failure, as in lines such as "if she refused / there's no hope", and "Someone says that his sky is ending/When there’s enough air for a nation or two".

It has been first suggested, and since confirmed by band member Danny Sanderson, that the song also contained a veiled political protest against then-prime minister Golda Meir, and in favour of the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

As Kaveret included seven members while the rules of the competition allowed a maximum of six performers on the stage, the band's keyboard player Yoni Rechter served as the orchestra conductor.

The song was performed sixth on the night, following Greece's Marinella with "Krasi, thalassa kai t' agori mou" and preceding Yugoslavia's Korni Grupa with "Moja generacija".