HaMerotz LaMillion 6

HaMerotz LaMillion 6 is the sixth season of HaMerotz LaMillion (Hebrew: המירוץ למיליון, lit. The Race to the Million), an Israeli reality competition show based on the American series The Amazing Race. It featured 12 teams of two with a pre-existing relationship in a race around the world to win ₪1,000,000. Starting in Tzukei Yam, racers traveled through Israel, the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Jamaica, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, and Thailand before returning to Israel and finishing in Jerusalem.
This season premiered on 21 October 2017 on Channel 2 until 1 November 2017 when the show moved to Reshet 13, one of two new stations launched following a split of Channel 2, with the finale on 17 March 2018 and was hosted by Ron Shahar.
Married parents Evelin and Tohar Haimovich were the winners of this season, while models Daniel Peretz and Eliyahu Shabtai finished second, and married parents Regev and Helen Hod finished third.
Unlike the previous two seasons, which featured 14 teams split into two groups of seven teams and eliminated one team per group at the end of the first leg, this season's first leg returned to a single leg format.
This season visited four continents and eight countries including the first visit by an Amazing Race franchise to Kyrgyzstan, a country which has not been visited by the original American edition. The show also featured a special episode in the ninth country of Greece, where eliminated teams competed in challenges while sequestered.
Former New York Jets Flight Crew and The Amazing Race 27 contestant Krista DeBono was the Pit Stop greeter on Leg 2 in New York City.
For the first time in the show's history, the eliminated teams would receive a chance to return to the competition. After the conclusion of Leg 9, all the eliminated teams, with the exception of the team eliminated in Leg 1 and a team medically not cleared to compete, would compete in a leg with the winner being able to return to the competition.
Starting with this season, episodes began with a shortened intro that only featured the show's logo.
Harel Group, Spring, Mobileye, and Partner Communications Company served as sponsors for this season.
The cast for this season included TLV - Doing Tel Aviv cast member Mor Silver and singer Regev Hod.
Anne & Yarden and Omer & Neta competed on HaMerotz LaMillion 8.
After this season, Neta Barazani appeared on the ninth season of the Israeli edition of Big Brother along with Season 2 contestant Adel Bespalov and Season 4 contestant Liron "Tiltil" Orfeli as part of a second wave of houseguests with a secret assignment in order to earn their way into the Big Brother house. Neta and "Tiltil" were unable to earn a spot in the house. In 2020, Regev Hod competed on the tenth season of the Israeli edition of Survivor. He was voted out on Day 30, lost a duel to get back into the game, and became the fourth member of the jury. In 2021, Omer Barazani competed on Big Brother VIP 4 and finished in third place.
The following teams participated in this season, 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:
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.
Translated from Hebrew from the official website:
Airdate: 21 October 2017
Airdates: 25 & 28 October, 1 November 2017
For this season's first Double Battle atop two adjacent rooftops in the Industry City complex, teams competed against each other in a tug of war match. The first team to pull the other off of their rooftop received their next clue. The team that fell would have to wait for the next opponent. The team that lost the final Double Battle had to wait out a 15-minute penalty. Teams made then their way to the nearby American Made Furniture outlet, where they voted for who they wished to Yield.
Airdates: 4, 8 & 11 November 2017
For this leg's Double Battle, each team attempted to knock both members of the opposing team off while maintaining balance on a Saturn-shaped pool inflatable. After ten minutes, they could only hold on with one hand. The first team to have both members fall off lost the Double Battle, while the team still standing received their next clue. The team that lost the final Double Battle had to wait out a 15-minute penalty.
This season's first Detour was a choice between מעל החול (Over the Sand) or מתחת לחול (Under the Sand). In Over the Sand, teams had to pull a heavy stone across the sand using a rope and four logs, with teams having to move the log in the back to the front of the stone to keep it moving, and across a marked finish to receive their next clue. In Under the Sand, one team member had to become a human metal detector by wearing a helmet with a search coil attached while being held by their legs by their partner, who was wearing headphones. Teams had to search a roped-off area of the beach and find a metal plate shaped like a hand in the Shaka position among several metallic items to receive their next clue. Teams found the U-Turn reveal board near the beach's parking lot.
In this season's first Roadblock, one team member had to participate in the land surfing sport of heʻe hōlua. That person had to ride a wooden sled called a papa hōlua down a hill without falling over and grab one of several clues strung above the base of the hill. If they grabbed a clue with contained a paper saying "Try Again," they would have to slide down the hill again until they found a clue which contained a paper saying "Excellent Surfer" to receive their next clue.
Airdates: 15, 18 & 25 November 2017
In this leg's Roadblock, one team member had to join a group of performers called the Voladores de Papantla. That team member had to climb a 32-metre (105 ft) pole and swing around the pole while suspended upside-down on ropes to the ground. While swinging down the pole, the chosen team member had to spot a sign, which contained the phrase Mexico '70, referring to when Mexico hosted the 1970 FIFA World Cup and Israel's first appearance in a World Cup, in Hebrew. If they were able to correctly recite the phrase, then they would receive their next clue, otherwise they would have to go to the back of any line that formed, climb the pole, and perform the swing again until they spotted the sign.
This season's final Detour was a choice between פיניטה (Piñata) or מרגריטה (Margarita). In Piñata, teams had to choose a piñata and hang it on a rope atop a metal cube. One team member would be blindfolded and had to crack open the piñata through the verbal directions of their teammate, while two boys pulled on the rope to make it harder to hit the piñata, then find a candy with an Amazing Race-colored wrapper, which they could exchange for their next clue. In Margarita, teams had to use a prong attached to a long pole to stack a pyramid of ten margarita glasses filled with blue-colored water that was able to stand for five seconds to receive their next clue. After teams completed the Detour, they made their way to the U-Turn reveal board outside the house on Rancho Las Abejas 128.
Airdates: 29 November, 2 & 9 December 2017
In this leg's Roadblock, one team member had to enter a tub containing a non-Newtonian mixture of water and corn starch. While stomping on the mixture to maintain the fluid's solidity, racers had to scrape ten corncobs one at a time against a rack of bare corncobs suspended above the tub and remove all the corn kernels from the cobs to receive their next clue.
Airdates: 11, 16 & 20 December 2017
In this leg's Roadblock, one team member had to memorize a book that contained the names, images, and descriptions of twenty models and then enter the Museo de Arte Moderno, where they would find five of the twenty models, who had their appearances altered with cosmetics. They then had to find a woman dressed as Betty from the Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea and had to identify all five models by name to her to receive their next clue. If the chosen team member misidentified a model, then teams would have to make their way outside the museum to Baluarte de San Ignacio, where the participating team member had to undergo a local beauty treatment to revitalize their face. After finishing the beauty treatment, they could attempt the task again.
Airdates: 23, 27 & 30 December 2017, 3 January 2018
In this leg's Roadblock, one team member had to stand atop the side of a rum barrel and roll the barrel across The Aqueduct to receive their next clue. If they fell off of the barrel, they would have to return to the starting point and try again. After the Roadblock, teams voted for who they wished to Yield.
For this leg's Double Battle, one member of each team would be hung upside-down above a circle of nine treasure chests while wearing a pirate eyepatch. Team members had to place four flags in the four correspondingly colored chests and place a fifth flag within a final chest at the far end of the circle to win a round. The first team to win two of three matches would win the Double Battle and would receive their next clue. The team that lost the final Double Battle had to wait out a 15-minute penalty.
Airdates: 6, 10, 13 & 17 January 2018
In this season's final Roadblock, one team member had to pilot a remote controlled helicopter and land it on a miniature helipad placed on a helmet worn by their teammate to receive their next clue.
Airdates: 20, 27 & 31 January, 3 & 5 February 2018
For this season's final Double Battle, teams had to memorize a board listing the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac, which was incorporated into the Kyrgyz calendar, and three celebrities born under the year of each animal. Teams would then make their way to a field with 36 pyramids, each listing one of the 36 celebrities. Teams would spin a wheel and one team member had to find pyramids listing the celebrities listed under whatever animal the wheel landed on. The first team to bring back two out of the three correct pyramids would win the round. The first team to win two rounds would win the Double Battle. The team that lost the final Double Battle had to wait out a 15-minute penalty.
Airdate: 7 February 2018
Airdates: 10, 12 & 17 February 2018
Airdates: 21 & 24 February 2018
Airdates: 3 & 10 March 2018
Airdate: 17 March 2018
Data courtesy of the Israeli Rating Committee, according to individuals aged 4+ from the general population.