HaMerotz LaMillion 7


The seventh season of HaMerotz LaMillion is an Israeli reality television game show based on the American series, The Amazing Race. The seventh installment of the series features 12 teams of two with a pre-existing relationship in a race around the world to win ₪1,000,000.
The season premiered on July 15, 2019, on Reshet 13 and is hosted by Ron Shahar.
Models Matija "Tia" Galili and Fatima "Fay" Jakite were the winners of this season.

Production

Development and filming

In October 2018, news broke that Reshet would be filming the seventh and eight seasons of HaMerotz LaMillion back-to-back with filming set to begin in November and into December. This is the first Amazing Race franchise to film two installments during a 54-day production.
Filming for the seventh season began on November 4, when passersby noticed a crane and Race flags on the grounds of the Knesset. Speaker Yuli-Yoel Edelstein later confirmed in a statement that the Knesset was being used as a filming location for HaMerotz LaMillion as part of the seventieth anniversary celebration of the establishment of the legislature. The next day, the teams were spotted at Ben Gurion Airport.
The season visited two continents and eight countries and was the first time that an Amazing Race franchise visited Nepal, a country which has not been visited by the original American edition.
This season also included a companion series that aired on ZOOM entitled Zoom in on the Race, which featured comedians Duvdevani and Kovach following the filming of the season.

Casting

At the end of the finale of the previous season, host Ron Shahar announced that casting for the seventh season had begun.
On June 19, 2019, the cast photos were posted on the show's Instagram page with the cast bios released five days later. The cast for this season included former former child actresses Noy and Hadar Karako. Tia & Fay were part of the cast of HaMerotz LaMillion 6 but were removed before filming and replaced with another team due to a missing travel visa. Haviv and Itzhak Maman were previously contestants on . Gili is the mother of Yarden, who raced on the previous and subsequent seasons, and appeared on episode twenty-eight of the previous season herself during a video chat with her daughter, while she was racing in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Marketing

and Spring returned as sponsors for the season alongside 5 Gum, Hot, Nature Valley, Škoda Auto, Under Armour, James Richardson Corporation, Shufersal, and the Knesset.

Results

The following teams participated in the Race, with their relationships at the time of filming. Note that this table is not necessarily reflective of all content broadcast on television due to inclusion or exclusion of some data. Placements are listed in finishing order:
  1. ^ During the Intersection, Hadar fell and injured her arm; unfit to continue, Noy & Hadar did not complete the remainder of the leg, and instead they were directly sent to the Pit Stop for elimination. Yehoudit & Zohar, who were intersected along with Noy & Hadar, were forced to quit the Intersection; however, they were not issued a penalty.
  2. Yehoudit & Zohar elected to forfeit the final match of the Double Battle and accept the 15-minute penalty.
  3. Leg 11 was a combined double-length leg. The placements listed in the first column reflect the order teams finished the sticky tofu task.

    Voting history

Teams may vote to choose either U-Turn or Yield. The team with the most votes received the U-Turn or Yield penalty, depending on the respective leg.

Episode Titles

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Prizes

The prize for each leg was awarded to the first place team for that leg. Gift card were provided by Shufersal Travel, and the ₪1,000,000 was provided by Harel Group. The prizes were:

Leg 1 (Israel)

Airdate: 15 July 2019
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Airdate: 17 & 20 July 2019
In the first Roadblock of the Race, one team member had to don a virtual reality headset and watch footage of animals crawling on themselves for thirty-minutes. In reality, the animals were crawling on a mannequin, and hospital staff were using props to make team members believe that the animals were on them. Team members would be attached to a pulse oximeter, and if their pulse exceeded 90 beats per minute, the thirty-minute clock would stop until team members could lower their pulse. Once the time expired, teams would receive their next clue.
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Airdate: 22, 24 & 27 July 2019
In the first Double Battle of the Race, teams had to dress as penguins and then one member from each team would face off in a square. The first team member that pushed their opponent would win a round, and the first team to win two rounds would receive their next clue, while the losing team had to wait for another team. The team that lost the final Double Battle had to wait out a fifteen-minute penalty.
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Airdate: 31 July & 3 August 2019
For the Double Battle, each team would be suspended in a net much like a silkworm in a chrysalis and had to use a saw attached to a pole to cut the ten ropes near their net. The first team to cut the correct rope holding them up, drop to the ground, and emerge as butterflies would receive their next clue, while the losing team had to wait for another team. Teams also had to be careful as one of their own ropes would drop their opponents. The team that lost the final Double Battle had to wait out a fifteen-minute penalty.
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Airdate: 4 & 7 August 2019
In this Roadblock, one team member was harnessed to a gorge swing before free-falling into the Batoka Gorge and swinging across the Zambezi before receiving their next clue after returning atop the ledge.
For the Double Battle, each team had to stand atop a beam above a pool. One team member had to transfer six balls to baskets so that the combined colors of the balls would form the color of the basket, while their partner swung large bags to knock their opponents into the water. The first team to get all of their balls in the appropriate baskets would receive their next clue, while the losing team had to wait for another team. The team that lost the final Double Battle had to wait out a fifteen-minute penalty.
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Airdate: 14 & 17 August 2019
The first Detour of the Race was a choice between דודו and צב. In Dodo, each team member had to don a dodo costume. Then, one team member had to pick up an egg with their beak and transfer the egg to their partner's beak without touching the egg. That person had to deposit the egg in a nest, and after depositing two eggs, teams would receive their next clue. In Turtle, teams had to don an Aldabra giant tortoise costume with one team member on top of their partner, who was blindfolded and serving as the legs, serving as the eyes of their blindfolded partner. Working together, teams had to gather two stems of leaves from a stand and place them in a basket to receive their next clue.
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Airdate: 21 & 24 August 2019
For the Double Battle, one member from each team had to fill a plate with food from a buffet. The partner of the team member with the heavier plate would have ten minutes to eat all of the food to win a round, otherwise their opponents would win the round. The team that won two rounds would receive their next clue, while the losing team had to wait for another team. The team that lost the final Double Battle had to wait out a fifteen-minute penalty.
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Airdate: 31 August & 1 September 2019
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Airdate: 4 & 7 September 2019
For the Double Battle, teams had to push a bicycle carrying offerings of food past several obstacles with one member of each team wearing a mask of a Hindu deity. At the start of the course, the team member without the mask would learn which offering belonged to which deity and fill the glasses beneath four deities at the end of the course with the correct offerings up to the line. The first team to fill all four glasses with the correct offerings would receive their next clue, while the losing team had to wait for another team. The team that lost the final Double Battle had to wait out a fifteen-minute penalty.
The Detour was a choice between להכות or לזהות. In Hit, one team member would be attached to a harness and swung by their partner to strike a gong. Once the gong registered a sound between 86 and 93 decibels, teams would receive their next clue. In Identify, one team member would don headphones while their partner listened to one of seven gongs. After hearing the gong, they had to recreate the sound to their partner, who then had to identify which gong was struck to receive their next clue.
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Airdate: 8 & 11 September 2019
For the Double Battle, one member of each team had to stand between two walls on pegs. Alternating turns, the other member from each team had to spin a Bingo cage to dispense a ball containing instructions of where their partner had to move their hands or feet much like the game Twister. The first team to lose two rounds by falling twice would lose the Double Battle and had to wait for another team, while their opponents would receive their next clue. The team that lost the final Double Battle had to wait out a fifteen-minute penalty.
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Airdate: 14, 15 & 18 September 2019
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Airdate: 22 September 2019
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