was ten years earlier in 1971.

Participants

By October 1980, it looked as though 21 countries were planning to take part, the largest number so far, but then declared that they were no longer interested. This year marked the début of in the contest; they finished in sixth place. returned to the contest; they had been absent from the previous year's event due to a clash of dates with the Yom HaZikaron holiday, which prevented them from defending their victories of 1978 and 1979. They

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