HaMerotz LaMillion 8

Production

Development and filming

Cast

• From Season 4:
• *Shay Gavriel and Shani Alon, Her Husband's Best Friend, 1st place
• *Vladimir "Vova" Lazarovitch and Alla Aibinder, New Olim & Exes, 4th place
• From Season 5:
• *Ben and Ori Scheflan, Brothers, 6th place
• *Yael Carmon and Yosiel Neeman, Cousins, 5th place
• From Season 6:
• *Anne Zivi and Yarden Vizel, Best Friends, 5th place
• *Omer and Neta Barazani, Siblings, 4th place

Future appearances

Results

• A team placement means the team was eliminated.
• A team placement indicates that the team was the last to arrive at a Pit Stop in a non-elimination leg.
• An indicates that there was a Double Battle on this leg, while an indicates the team that lost the Double Battle and received a 15-minute penalty.
• A or indicates the team who received a Yield; and indicates that the team voted for the recipient.
• A indicates the team who received a U-Turn; indicates that the team voted for the recipient.

1. Shay & Shani elected to forfeit a round at the Double Battle allowing Liane & Eviatar to receive their next clue due to the task triggering a fear of water with Lian.
2. Michal & Ruthi elected to forfeit the Double Battle and accept the 15 minute penalty due to Michal feeling ill.
3. Netah & Asaf elected to forfeit a round at the Double Battle allowing Omer & Neta to receive their next clue.
4. Yael & Yosiel were the first team to check in, but they hadn't found the bus ticket to disembark and were sent back to the bus. Netah & Asaf checked in during this time, dropping them to 2nd.

Voting history

Episode Titles

Race summary

Leg 1 (Philippines)

• Las Piñas, Philippines
• Pasay
• Pasay
• Taguig
• Manila
• Manila
• Las Piñas
• Mandaluyong
• Manila
• Manila

• At the CCP Open Grounds, one team member would be harnessed and swung by their partner to grab titles with Baybayin letters. They had to find the letters for a word and would then be raised by their partner to a board, where they had to spell the word to receive their next clue.
• At the Pasay City Mall & Public Market, teams were given a shopping list of ingredients written in Hebrew that they had to find in the market and bring to a chef to receive their next clue.
• At Manila Ocean Park, one team member had to don a wetsuit and diving helmet and enter the oceanarium. Their partner had to pantomime three fish, which the racer in the tank had to take selfies of to receive their next clue. Teams would then discover if they had been Yielded.
• At Versailles Palace, teams had to step into a set of boxes, use their feet to feel the items inside, and correctly guess the ten items to receive their next clue.
• At Sales Rain, teams entered a call centre full of ringing telephones. Some of the phones played a lyric to a song, and teams had to figure out that the song was "Queen of the Roses" from Eden Ben Zaken to receive their next clue directing them to the Pit Stop, where the Yielded team had to wait out a 15-minute penalty.

Leg 2 (Philippines)

• Manila to Panglao, Bohol
• Loboc
• Loboc
• Loboc
• Loboc
• Alburquerque
• Tagbilaran
• Dauis
• Panglao

• Outside Bohol–Panglao International Airport, teams voted for the team they wished to U-Turn.
• At JAD Cultural Center, teams had to climb a bamboo ladder up a mock coconut tree, retrieve a coconut, bring it down to a basket, and repeat until they retrieved six coconuts to receive their next clue. However, only one member of each team could climb at a time, racers would be attached to a counterweight that would make climbing up easy but climbing down hard, and teams had to swap climbers every three minutes.
• At Santisima Trinidad Ice Plant, teams had to use a fork, knife, spoon, and meat tenderizer to retrieve a ladle from a block of ice and receive their next clue.
• Outside the Cathedral of St. Joseph the Worker, teams had to convince ten people to carry a Nipa hut around Plaza Rizal in a tradition known as bayanihan. Teams then had to properly set up the interior of the hut to receive their next clue.
• Outside the Dauis Church, teams had to search through 18 jars of fermenting bagoong and find a small Amazing Race flag they could exchange for their next clue.

Leg 3 (Philippines → Netherlands)

• Panglao to Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Amstelveen
• Ransdorp
• Amsterdam
• Amsterdam
• Katwoude
• Amsterdam

• In Amstelveen, teams had to sample 10 cheeses, carry two wheels of each cheese on a wooden stretcher to a station, and then place the correct cheese wheels beneath unmarked cheese samples to receive their next clue.
• In Ransdorp, teams had to look at a Snellen chart from a distance and then pole vault across an irrigation ditch, a regional sport called fierljeppen, to obtain the underlined letters and numbers one at a time to receive their next clue. Teams then voted for the team they wished to Yield.
• At Zuiderkerk, teams would find a decorated Christmas tree. They then had to bring a tree to Nieuwmarkt and replicate the Christmas tree to receive their next clue from Santa Claus. If teams were incorrect, they had to carry the tree back to the church before making another attempt.
• At Museum Van Loon, teams had to teach a passerby information about pieces of art in the museum and had to connect each artwork to Israel. Their person would then be quizzed on the art and had to answer three questions correctly so teams could receive their next clue.
• Outside Irene Hoeve, teams would discover if they had been Yielded. Teams then entered the shop and had to search a room full of klompen for one marked with an Amazing Race flag they could exchange for their next clue directing them to the Pit Stop, where the Yielded team had to wait out a 15-minute penalty.

Leg 4 (Netherlands → Armenia)

• Amsterdam to Yerevan, Armenia
• Arzni
• Arzni
• Yerevan
• Yerevan
• Yerevan
• Yerevan
• Yerevan
• Yerevan

• In Arzni, one team member had to climb a cliff to reach images of seven Armenian inventions that they had to verbally describe to their partner through a walkie-talkie. The team member on the ground would be next to a board filled with images of inventions, each of which had a letter, and had to unscramble the letters to spell the name of a famous Armenian family, the Kardashians, to receive their next clue. Teams would then vote for the team they wished to Yield.
• At Arzni Agro Farm, teams had to stack hay bales to reach two white stork nests perched on a large haystack and place a colored egg in its associated nest to receive their next clue.
• In the neighborhood of Bangladesh, teams had to recreate a photograph of the Kardashians by borrowing listed items from apartments and finding people with similar ages to the people in the photograph to receive their next clue from a Kim Kardashian impersonator.
• Outside Parvana Restaurant, teams would discover if they had been Yielded. Then, one team member had to knead 30 buckets of lavash dough to receive their next clue. Meanwhile, their partner would be holding a stack of lavash on each hand, and if they dropped the bread, then the team would have to wait 10 minutes before resuming.
• At the Vardan Mamikonian Statue, one team member had to enter a plexiglass box and get covered in bugs and mealworms. Their partner then had to wheel the box to a series of tables, which they had to search for the right handle to open the box and receive their next clue.
• At the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, teams had to convince a passerby to translate instructions written in Armenian to them so they could fold a large sheet of paper into a paper boat, meant to resemble Noah's Ark. Once complete, teams had to carry their boat to the Yerevan Vernissage and place it in a pool to receive their next clue directing them to the Pit Stop, where the Yielded team had to wait out a 15-minute penalty, from a man dressed as Noah.

Leg 5 (Armenia)

• Geghadir
• Garni
• Vagharshapat
• Yerevan
• Yerevan
• Yerevan
• Yerevan

• In Geghadir, teams had to don a helmet and breastplate and then launch cabbages using a giant slingshot to knock down four knight cutouts to receive their next clue. Teams then voted for the team they wished to Yield.
• At the Temple of Garni, teams had to use a large hammer to push out the bottom disk from a stack of five large disks without toppling the stack until the bottom four were removed to retrieve their next clue.
• At Gum Market, teams had to memorize an example table with ten plates of fruit. Then, teams had to search a vast table with plates of fruit for the three plates missing from their own table to receive their next clue. If teams chose an incorrect plate, then one team member would have to consume one plate's contents before they could resume searching.
• At Adora Restaurant, teams would find out if they had been Yielded and then had to work with two students to hold up a disk with ropes and then stack blocks with Armenian letters until they spelled կՈՄԻՏԱՍ without toppling the stack to receive their next clue.
• At the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan, teams had to watch a dance and would then be asked a question about the performance. Teams had to choose an answer, uncover a step number listed next to their answer, and then make their way to the Yerevan Cascade to open the clue placed on the step number they got. If teams answered incorrectly, they would have to return to the conservatory and watch another performance. If they answered correctly, they could check into the Pit Stop atop the Cascade, but the Yielded team would first have to wait out a 15-minute penalty.

Leg 6 (Armenia → Chile)

• Yerevan
• Yerevan to Santiago, Chile
• Santiago
• Santiago
• Santiago
• Santiago
• Santiago
• Santiago
• Santiago
• Santiago

• At Museo Histórico Nacional, team had to listen to a lecture about the four greats of Chilean poetry: Gabriela Mistral, Vicente Huidobro, Pablo de Rokha, and Pablo Neruda. Then, teams had to stack 50 books onto a board, encourage locals to translate familiar Israeli songs printed on the books' covers in Spanish, and carry the books to the National Library of Chile. Teams would have to figure out which poet wrote the books they were carrying based on the theme of their book's song and then stack them on a shelf with the correct poet to receive their next clue.
• At Fluvial Park, teams had two minutes to stack toy blocks while on an earthquake shaking table so that the blocks matched a picture to receive their next clue. Teams would then vote for the team they wished to Yield.
• At Museo Histórico y Militar de Chile, both team members had to dress up as a chinchinero, a local one-man band street performer, and play a tune in sync to receive their next clue.
• From Argomedo Performance, teams were driven in a classic car to the base of the Gran Torre Santiago, where they would discover if they had been Yielded and then find their next clue.
• At the Gran Torre Santiago, one team member had to don a glow suit and would find a coded message at the base of the building. They had to contort their body to form the poses, similar to flag semaphore, and their partner looking from the 61st floor would translate. When teams translated "the hill where the establishment of Santiago was announced awaits Ron Shahar", they would be able to find the Pit Stop, where the Yielded team had to wait out a 15-minute penalty.

Leg 7 (Chile)

• Santiago
• Algarrobo
• Algarrobo
• El Quisco
• Valparaíso
• Viña del Mar
• Valparaíso
• Valparaíso
• Valparaíso

• At Playa Canelo, teams had to play bubble football against three locals with another local chosen as their goalie and score more goals within 10 minutes to receive their next clue. Teams then voted for the team they wished to Yield.
• At Ex Frigorífico, one team member had to turn on an incomplete light display of the flag of Chile. Once the lights turned off, they then had to direct their partner to turn on all of the unlit bulbs to receive their next clue. If teams were unsuccessful after an allotted time, the display would reset, and teams would have to wait out a 5-minute penalty before they make another attempt.
• At Viña del Mar Boardwalk, teams had to encourage 19 passersby to hold up a tube so teams could pour colored water from one end and fill a cutout of Chile in a map of South America to receive their next clue.
• At Be The Juice Bar, teams would discover if they had been Yielded. Teams then obtained a basket with newspaper cones filled churros from a nearby food truck and had eat every churro from a cone before they could search the newspaper for an image of their next Pit Stop, where the Yielded team had to wait out a 15-minute penalty. If the newspaper didn't include an image of the Pit Stop, teams would have to choose and eat another cone of churros.

Leg 8 (Chile → Ecuador)

• Santiago
• Santiago to Quito, Ecuador
• Quito
• Quito
• Quito
• Quito
• Quito
• Quito
• Quito

• At The Lovers, teams had to thaw frozen T-shirts to uncover the words printed on them, figure out that they all referenced Madonna, and deduce that their next clue was at the Madonna statue of Virgin of El Panecillo.
• At Virgin of El Panecillo, teams received a Nescafé Taster's Choice coffee break before they could continue racing.
• At Rumipamba Archaeological Park, teams voted for the team they wished to Yield.
• At Galapagos Street, one team member had to drive a wooden kart down a hill to a baker within 90 seconds while their partner held onto two cakes to receive their next clue. Teams would then discover if they had been Yielded.
• At Plaza de la Independencia, both team members had to don a box with QR codes and encourage passersby to scan the codes with their smartphones. The passerby could only describe the photo the code produced, and teams had to figure out which code produced a photo with a minor difference and travel to the location listed on the photo to find their next clue.
• At Fundación Niños de María, teams would discover if they had been Yielded.
• At Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito, teams boarded a Chiva bus that would take them to the Pit Stop. There, teams had five minutes to search for the ticket to disembark, with the Yielded teams having to wait out a 15-minute penalty before checking in. If teams were unsuccessful, the bus would depart and teams would have to wait for it to return to the plaza before they could continue searching.

Leg 9 (Ecuador)

• Quito
• Tena
• Tena
• Pichincha Province
• Amaguaña
• Amaguaña
• Quito

• In Tena, teams would experience a healing ritual from a shaman, which involved drinking two bowls of aloe vera gel, to receive their next clue.
• At the picnic area, one team member had to listen to animal sounds on an MP3 player and reiterate the sounds to their partner. That person had to find the correct animals and transfer them to their partner, who had to put them into boxes, to receive their next clue. Teams then voted for the team they wished to Yield.
• At Molinuco Resort, teams had to pick up a basket of food and would then find their loved ones with whom they would enjoy a picnic before receiving their next clue.
• At Casa Hacienda, one team member had to hang upside-down from a pole and describe an image of a totem pole to their partner in a tipi, who had to recreate the totem pole by stacking blocks to receive their next clue. Teams would then discover if they had been Yielded.
• At Guna Flores, teams had to sort 12 types of roses and correctly count each type to receive their next clue directing them to the Pit Stop, where the Yielded team had to wait out a 15-minute penalty.

Leg 10 (Ecuador → Brazil)

• Quito
• Quito to São Paulo, Brazil
• Guarujá
• Guarujá
• Santos
• Santos
• Santos
• Santos

• Outside the JW Marriott Hotel Quito, teams were given a tablet computer that played "Tudo Bom" by Static & Ben El Tavori and had to figure out that they were traveling to São Paulo, Brazil.
• At Tortuga, each team member had to study a map that depicted the amounts of money in sacks floating offshore. Teams then had to use a water bike to retrieve 20 sacks that totaled exactly ₪1,000,000 to receive their next clue.
• At Praia da Enseada, teams received a Nescafé Taster's Choice coffee break before they could continue racing. Teams then had to bury 20 people in the sand and play telephone. Once team member would say a sentence in Hebrew, and the buried people had to pass the sentence down to the other team member, who had to find an object mentioned in the sentence and deliver it to a beachgoer to receive their next clue. Teams then voted for the team they wished to Yield.
• At Praça Mauá, team would find a human-sized cup filled with maté and had to serve all of the liquid inside to passersby before they could retrieve their next clue from inside the cup.
• At Praia do Gonzaga, teams would discover if they had been Yielded.
• At Praça das Bandeiras, one team member had to enter a giant ball pit filled with globes marked with various countries and find six globes marked with the countries they visited during the season. They then had to pass the globes to their partner, who had to place the globes next to the marked countries' national flags to receive their next clue directing them to the Pit Stop, where the Yielded team had to wait out a 15-minute penalty.

Leg 11 (Brazil)

• São Paulo
• São Paulo
• São Paulo
• São Paulo
• São Paulo
• São Paulo

• At São Paulo Yacht Club, teams had to standup paddleboard to a floating platform, pick up beach supplies, return to shore without falling into the water, and set up the supplies so that they matched the setup on the platform to receive their next clue.
• At Balsa Bar, one team member had to don a pipe that would extend their arm and re-create five selfies, in reference to São Paulo native and Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger, of nearby landmarks described to them by their partner over a phone to receive their next clue.
• At Guarapiranga Ecological Park, teams had to navigate through a maze of cages by finding an object with their picture in each section to receive their next clue.
• At Escola de Samba Vai-Vai, one team member had to read cards listing souvenirs in Portuguese from a balcony over the deafening sound of samba dancers and musicians to their partner, who had to translate them into Hebrew. The team member on the balcony then had to find the listed items to receive their next clue.
• At the Football Museum, teams had to find names of Israeli football players in the museum and sum the numbers next to each player. When teams thought they had the sum, they would be sent to one of five colored sections of Pacaembu Stadium and would find their next clue if they gave the correct sum of 2589.

Leg 12 (Brazil → Israel)

• São Paulo
• São Paulo
• São Paulo
• São Paulo
• São Paulo to Tel Aviv, Israel
• Tel Aviv
• Tel Aviv

• At the start of the leg, teams rode a helicopter over São Paulo before traveling to Jockey Chacara Municipal Park, where they had to convince twenty pairs of people to change into swimwear with their team's photograph in a mobile changing station and then get photographed to receive their next clue.
• On Jockey Chacara Municipal Park's soccer field, teams had to use a long pole to arrange 16 strips of fabric with Hebrew letters to form a lyric from a familiar Israeli song about Brazil to receive their next clue.
• At Sociedade Hipica Paulista, one team member had to walk across a tightrope with their partner on their shoulders to retrieve their next clue.
• At the Temple of Solomon, teams were informed that they were still racing. Teams arrived at their next location in the order they arrived at the temple.
• At Kenshoo Tel Aviv, teams had to unlock a tablet that would tell them the location of the Finish Line by inputting a code where the first two digits were the sum of all of their placements at the end of the previous legs. When the tablet was unlocked, Ron Shahar informed the teams to travel to the theater established in the 1980s in the first Hebrew city: Beit Lessin Theater in Tel Aviv.

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