Kobi Oshrat

Kobi Oshrat (; born July 15, 1944) is an Israeli composer and conductor. He composed and conducted the winning entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 "Hallelujah" sung by the vocal ensemble Milk and Honey.

Biography Yaakov (Kobi) Ventura (later Kobi Oshrat) was born in Haifa to parents who had immigrated from Salonika. Oshrat achieved international fame when his composition, "Hallelujah", sung by the Israeli group Milk and Honey, won the Eurovision Song Contest 1979. Oshrat has written more than 1000 songs, but "Hallelujah" is his most famous, with 400 cover versions of it around the world.

Oshrat also composed and conducted the 1985 and 1992 Israeli entries. He conducted the 1987 and 1991 Israeli entries but did not write the music for them.