It was selected to represent Israel after placing first in the 1987 "Kdam-Eurovision" preliminaries, where it tallied 79 points, defeating fifteen other Israeli artists' entries including as 1978 Eurovision winner Izhar Cohen. Unfortunately, about halfway through the qualifying performance, Kushnir had a momentary lapse and forgot some of the lyrics, but recovered almost immediately. This was the largest pre-Eurovision competition to date, presented by Yardena Arazi and Yoram Arbell on April 1, 1987.