The Voice Israel (season 3)
The Voice Israel (Season 3) is the third season of the reality show "The Voice Israel", which focuses on finding the next Israeli pop star. It is hosted by Michael Aloni with coaches Shlomi Shabat, Sarit Hadad, Aviv Geffen and Mosh Ben-Ari. Elkana Marziano was declared the winner, with Tamar Amar as runner-up. It is the first season of the Israeli version to be broadcast in 16:9 widescreen format. Summary of competitors. The third season of "The Voice Israel" included two recent immigrants to Israel who had had successful musical careers in their  own countries: the Australian-Israeli Ohad Rein, who performed in Australia as Old Man River and had several hit songs, and the French-Israeli Shirel Bitan, who had a long musical theatre career in France, and stated on the show that she had been approached by the producers of the French "" to serve as a mentor for that show, soon before she left for Israel. The group of competitors also included Jessica Katz, a niece of Steven Spielberg. Another contestant, Misha Kirkilan, had competed (as "Michael Kirkilan") on Season 3 of the Ukrainian version of "The Voice", "Holos Krainy", in  2013, but did not make it past the blind auditions on the Israeli version. Result Tables. The Blind Auditions: Episodes 1-9. Episode 1. The coaches performed "אנצל" at the start of the show. Battle Rounds: Episodes 10-14. This year's battle rounds featured a new "steal" twist. After each battle round the losing artist then pitched to the other three coaches on why they should join their team. It was then up to the coaches (who have a limited amount of time) to press their red button to steal the artist. They could press their button as many  times as they liked but were only allowed to steal two artists. If more than one coach wanted to steal the same artist then it was up to the artist to decide which team to join. Super Battle Rounds: Episodes 15-16. Each coach remain with nine artists at this stage. each coach in his/her turn chose threesome from that team, then the coach chose one artist to get a "fast pass" to the Knockout rounds, the remaining two artists battle with each other and the coach decide who won and advanced to the Knockout rounds. After this stage , each coach remains with six artists. Colour key: Knockout rounds. Top 24: Episodes 17-18. At this stage of the competition, each mentor chose the contestants from his team to move on to the Top 20. However, the others mentors had the opportunity to press their "My Voice" button while the fourth mentor's contestant was singing. A contestants who all the others mentors gave him "their voice" moved on automatically to the Top 20. Top 20: Episodes 19-20. At this stage of the competition, each mentor chose the contestants from his team to move on to the Top  16. However, the others mentors had the opportunity to press their "My Voice" button while the fourth mentor's contestant was singing. A contestants who all the others mentors gave him "their voice" moved on automatically to the Top 16. Top 16: Episodes 21-22. At this stage of the competition, each mentor chose the contestants from his team to move on to the Live show. However, the others mentors had the opportunity to press their "My Voice" button while the fourth mentor's contestant was singing. A contestants who all the others mentors gave him "their voice" moved on  automatically to the Live Shows. In addition to the previous stages in the live show, the coach can veto on the other coaches decision to press "My Voice" and the artist won't moved on automatically to the Live Shows. Live Shows. At this stage, the audience decide which artist will advance to the next episode. Colour key: Episode 27: Quarter Finals. In this episode, the artists sang duet with the graduates of the previous seasons of The Voice. Colour key: