Survivor: VIP (2020 Israeli season)

The 2020 season of Survivor: VIP (Hebrew: הישרדות VIP‎, romanized: Hisardut VIP) is the tenth season overall of the Israeli reality program Survivor and the third VIP season. The season featured 18 celebrity contestants competing against each other for the 1 million NIS prize. The season was filmed in the Philippines between August and October 2019, and began airing on Reshet 13 on May 2, 2020.

Survivor: VIP
Season 10
Presented by	Guy Zu-Aretz
No. of days	37
No. of castaways	18
Winner	Asi Buzaglo
Location	Philippines
Release
Original release	May 2 – September 13, 2020
Additional information
Filming dates	August, 2019 – October, 2019
Season chronology

Format changes

This season largely retained the format of previous seasons, with several changes:

• Airing format: This season aired four to five episodes per three-day cycle, compared to the two episodes per cycle schedule of previous seasons.
• Cabin Keeper: Voted out players became Cabin Keepers, who lived at the Negotiation Cabin (as seen in all seasons since the 2012 VIP season), where representatives from each tribe met to broker deals, such as allocating resources or picking contestants to switch tribes. If the deliberating contestants could not come to a conclusion in the allotted time, the Cabin Keeper who had been there the longest would make the decision for them.
• Duels: There were three types of duels involving the Cabin Keepers, of which the first two were similar to the zombie's duels from season seven, Survivor: Honduras.
  • Vote duel: Immediately after each tribal immunity challenge, the losing tribe's Cabin Keeper would challenge one of the tribe members to a duel. If the Cabin Keeper won the duel, they voted in the duel loser's stead at the upcoming Tribal Council, and had the power to summon one member of the losing tribe to the Cabin to strategize for the vote. If the Cabin Keeper lost the duel, they exited the game. After the merge, these duels occurred immediately before the immunity challenge.
  • Cabin Keeper duel: If the Cabin Keeper won the vote duel, they duelled the player voted out at the next Tribal Council for the right to remain the Cabin Keeper. At two predetermined points, winners of these duels returned to the game.
  • Reward duel: After the merge, one tribe member competed in a duel against the Cabin Keeper. If the player won the duel, one of their tribemates received a video call from a loved one. If the Cabin Keeper won two consecutive duels, they would immediately return to the game. These duels were held in lieu of the veto challenges seen in all seasons since the second season, Survivor: Pearl Islands.
• Popularity ratings: Contestants regularly ranked their tribemates throughout the game. On the first day, players ranked the others; the nine most popular players formed the Kapre tribe, while the remaining nine formed the Anting Anting tribe. Before each reward challenge, players ranked their tribemates. Before the merge, the player from each tribe with the lowest rating was unable to enjoy the reward should their tribe win the challenge, and were unable to compete in the individual immunity challenge should their tribe lose the tribal immunity challenge. After the merge, the player with the lowest rating was unable to compete in the reward challenge.
• Penalty vote: After the merge, the contestant who placed last in the immunity challenge received a penalty vote at that night's Tribal Council. This was similar to the veto challenge penalty votes from the 2012 VIP season.

Contestants

List of Survivor: VIP contestants

Contestant	Original tribe	Post-Cabin swap[lower-alpha 1]	Post-mutiny[lower-alpha 2]	Switched tribe	Merged tribe	Main game	Cabin Keeper
Dana Ron 48, Tel Aviv Television presenter, Big Brother 3	Anting Anting					Quit Day 1
Nava Boker 49, Hadera Journalist, politician	Anting Anting	Kapre				Quit Day 9
Nikol Reznikov 20, Afula Miss Israel 2018	Kapre	Kapre	Kapre			3rd voted out Day 12	Lost duel 3 Day 12
Zohar Strauss 48, Ramat Gan Actor	Anting Anting	Anting Anting				2nd voted out Day 6	Lost duel 4 Day 14
Adi Bity 18, Hod HaSharon Singer, actress	Kapre	Anting Anting	Anting Anting			4th voted out Day 15	Lost duel 6 Day 18
Semion Grafman 45, Bat Yam Activist	Kapre	Kapre	Kapre	Anting Anting		5th voted out Day 18	Lost duel 7 Day 20
David Dvir 70, Ramat Gan Dancer, choreographer	Anting Anting	Anting Anting	Anting Anting	Kapre		7th voted out Day 22	Lost duel 8 Day 22
Ido Kozikaro Returned to game	Kapre	Kapre	Kapre	Anting Anting		6th voted out Day 21	1st returnee Day 22
Lital Smadja 32, Petah Tikva Beauty and the Geek 2 winner	Kapre	Kapre	Kapre	Anting Anting	Tondo	8th voted out Day 24	Lost duel 11 1st jury member Day 24
Ilana Avital 60, Ramat HaSharon Singer	Kapre					1st voted out Day 3	Lost duel 13 2nd jury member Day 26
Ido Kozikaro 42, Haifa Former basketball player	Kapre	Kapre	Kapre	Anting Anting	Tondo	9th voted out Day 26	Lost duel 15 3rd jury member Day 28
Regev Hod 39, Rehovot Singer, The Amazing Race 6	Anting Anting	Anting Anting	Anting Anting	Kapre		11th voted out Day 30	Lost duel 18 4th jury member Day 30
Alina Levy Returned to game	Anting Anting	Anting Anting	Anting Anting	Anting Anting		10th voted out Day 28	2nd returnee Day 31
Ella Ayalon 22, Tel Aviv Model	Anting Anting	Anting Anting	Anting Anting	Kapre		13th voted out Day 32	Lost duel 20 5th jury member Day 32
Benny Bruchim 47, Kfar Saba Comedian	Anting Anting	Anting Anting	Kapre	Kapre		14th voted out Day 34	Lost duel 21 6th jury member Day 35
Israel Ogalbo Returned to game	Kapre	Kapre	Anting Anting	Anting Anting		12th voted out Day 32	3rd returnee Day 35
Alina Levy 29, Ra'anana Actress, model, Big Brother 2	Anting Anting	Anting Anting	Anting Anting	Anting Anting		15th voted out 7th jury member Day 37
Yarden Gerbi 30, Netanya Olympic judo bronze medalist	Kapre	Kapre	Kapre	Kapre		2nd runner-up 8th jury member[lower-alpha 3]
Idan Haviv 40, Tel Aviv Singer, Survivor: Pearl Islands	Kapre	Kapre	Kapre	Kapre		2nd runner-up 9th jury member[lower-alpha 3]
Israel Ogalbo 29, Tel Aviv Big Brother 9 winner	Kapre	Kapre	Anting Anting	Anting Anting		Runner-up
Asi Buzaglo 37, Petah Tikva Former footballer	Anting Anting	Anting Anting	Anting Anting	Anting Anting		Sole Survivor

1. At the Negotiation Cabin on Day 4, Israel and Alina chose one member to switch to the other tribe; they chose Adi and Nava, respectively.
2. On Day 11, Benny and Israel were temporarily switched to the other tribe. At the immunity challenge later that day, they were given the opportunity to remain with their new tribes; they both accepted.
3. The Final Tribal Council vote resulted in a tie for first place between Asi and Israel. As the other finalists, Idan and Yarden became the 8th and 9th members of the jury, and the jury revoted between the two remaining finalists.

Season summary

Pre-merge challenge winners and eliminations by cycle

Episode(s)	Original air date(s)	Challenge winner(s)			Vote duel		Voted out	Finish	Cabin Keeper duel
		Reward	Tribal immunity	Individual immunity	Winner	Loser			Winner	Loser
1 & 2	May 2 & 5, 2020	Kapre		None			Dana	Quit Day 1	None
2 & 3	May 5 & 9, 2020	Kapre	Anting Anting	None			Ilana	1st voted out Day 3	None
4, 5 & 6	May 12, 16 & 19, 2020	Anting Anting	Kapre	Adi[lower-alpha 1]	None		Zohar	2nd voted out Day 6	None
				Asi
7, 8, 9 & 10	May 23, 26, 27 & 30, 2020	Kapre	Anting Anting	Yarden	Ilana	Nava	Nava	Quit Day 9	None
11, 12, 13 & 14	June 2, 6, 9 & 13, 2020	Kapre	Anting Anting	Yarden	Ilana	Benny	Nikol	3rd voted out Day 12	Ilana	Nikol
		Ido[lower-alpha 2]
15, 16, 17 & 18	June 14, 15, 16 & 17, 2020	Kapre	Kapre	Regev	Ella	Zohar	Adi	4th voted out Day 15	None
19, 20, 21, 22 & 23	June 20, 21, 22, 23 & 27, 2020	Kapre	Kapre	Ido[lower-alpha 3]	Adi	Semion	Semion	5th voted out Day 18	Semion	Adi
				Israel[lower-alpha 3]
				Asi
24, 25, 26 & 27	June 28, 29, 30, & July 4, 2020	Anting Anting	Kapre	Israel	Lital	Semion	Ido	6th voted out Day 21	None
28, 29 & 30	July 5, 7 & 8, 2020	Anting Anting		Regev[lower-alpha 4]	None[lower-alpha 5]		David	7th voted out Day 22	Ido[lower-alpha 6]	David
									Ilana

Post-merge challenge winners and eliminations by cycle

Episode(s)	Original air date(s)	Challenge winner(s)		Reward duel		Vote duel		Voted out	Finish	Cabin Keeper duel
		Reward	Immunity	Winner	Loser	Winner	Loser			Winner	Loser
31, 33 & 34[lower-alpha 7]	July 11, 14 & 15, 2020	Idan	Ido[lower-alpha 8]	Israel	Ilana	Ilana	Benny	Lital	8th voted out Day 24	Ilana	Lital
			Asi
35, 36, 37 & 38	July 18, 19, 21 & 22, 2020	Israel, Yarden [Ella, Ido]	Yarden	Asi	Ilana	Benny	Ilana	Ido	9th voted out Day 26	None
39, 40, 41, 42 & 43	July 25, 26, 28, August 1 & 2, 2020	Alina [Idan]	Benny	Ido	Benny	Benny	Ido	Alina	10th voted out Day 28	None
44, 45, 46, 47 & 48	August 4, 8, 9, 11 & 12, 2020	Survivor Auction	Yarden Benny[lower-alpha 9]	Alina	Regev	Alina	Regev	Regev	11th voted out Day 30	Alina	Regev
49, 50, 51 & 52	August 15, 16, 18 & 22, 2020	Idan [Alina, Asi]	Ella	Alina[lower-alpha 6]	Asi	None		Israel	12th voted out Day 32	None
53	August 23, 2020	None[lower-alpha 10]						Ella	13th voted out Day 32	Israel	Ella
54, 55, 56, 57 & 58	August 25, 29, 31, September 1 & 2, 2020	Idan	Asi	None				Benny	14th voted out Day 34	Israel[lower-alpha 6]	Benny
59, 60 & 61	September 5, 8 & 12, 2020	Yarden	Idan	None				Alina	15th voted out Day 37
62	September 13, 2020							Jury vote
								Idan	2nd runner-up
								Yarden
								Israel	Runner-up
								Asi	Sole Survivor

1. For switching tribes, Adi and Nava would receive individual immunity if their new tribe lost the next immunity challenge. Anting Anting lost, and Adi became immune.
2. For winning the reward challenge, the Kapre tribe competed in a bonus reward challenge for an extra vote at a future Tribal Council, which Ido won.
3. At the Negotiation Cabin before the tribes were switched, Asi and Idan gave individual immunity to one member from the other tribe; they chose Ido and Israel, respectively.
4. For winning the reward/immunity challenge, the Anting Anting tribe observed Kapre's Tribal Council and voted to give immunity to one player from their tribe; Regev won the vote.
5. There was no vote duel due to the upcoming merge.
6. Returned to game upon winning duel.
7. Episode 32, which aired on July 12, 2020, was a recap episode.
8. For placing first in the previous Cabin Keeper challenge, Ido returned to the game with individual immunity at the next Tribal Council.
9. At Tribal Council, Yarden chose to give her immunity to Benny.
10. Immediately after Israel was voted out, Tondo was instructed to vote out another member; there were no challenges.

Voting history

					Original tribes		Post-Cabin swap		Post-mutiny		Switched tribes				Merged tribe
Episode #					2	3	6	10	14	18	23		27	29	34	38	43	47	52	53		57	61
Day #					1	3	6	9	12	15	18		21	22	24	26	28	30	32			34	37
Eliminated					Dana	Ilana	Zohar	Nava	Nikol	Adi	Semion		Ido	David	Lital	Ido	Alina	Regev	Israel	Ella		Benny	Alina
Votes					Quit[lower-alpha 1]	8–1	5–3	Quit[lower-alpha 2]	5–2	6–1	3–2		3–2	1–0[lower-alpha 3]	5–4–1	5–4–1	4–4–0[lower-alpha 4]	4–2–1–0[lower-alpha 5]	5–3	4–2–1		4–2	3–1
Voter					Vote
				Asi			Zohar			Adi	Semion		Lital		None[lower-alpha 6]	Ido	Alina	Yarden	Alina	Ella	Ella[lower-alpha 7]	Alina	Alina
				Israel		Ilana				Adi	Semion		Ido		Yarden	Ido	Alina	Yarden	Alina				None[lower-alpha 8]
				Yarden		Ilana			Nikol					Regev	Lital	Regev	Regev	Regev	Israel	Asi		Benny	Alina
				Idan		Ilana			Nikol					Regev	Lital	Regev	Regev	Regev	Israel	Ella		Benny	Alina
				Alina			Benny			Adi	None[lower-alpha 9]		None[lower-alpha 10]		Lital	Regev	Regev	Regev[lower-alpha 11]	Israel	Asi		Benny	Israel
				Benny			Zohar		None[lower-alpha 12]					Regev	None[lower-alpha 12]	Ido	Regev	Regev	Israel	Ella		Alina
				Ella			Zohar			Adi			Ido[lower-alpha 10]	Regev	Yarden	Ido	Alina	Idan	Alina	Benny
				Regev			Zohar			Adi				David	Yarden	Ido	Alina	None[lower-alpha 12]
				Ido		Ilana			Nikol		Lital	Lital[lower-alpha 13]	Lital		Lital	Regev
				Lital		Ilana			Ido		None[lower-alpha 9]		Ido		Yarden
			David				Benny			Adi				Regev
			Semion			Ilana			Nikol		None[lower-alpha 12]
		Adi				Ilana	Zohar			Alina	Semion[lower-alpha 11]
		Nikol				Ilana			Ido
	Nava
	Zohar						Benny
Ilana						Israel			Nikol[lower-alpha 11]						Lital[lower-alpha 11]
Dana
Penalty[lower-alpha 14]															Benny	Benny	Yarden	Benny	Israel			Benny

Jury vote Episode # 62 Day # 37 Finalist Idan Yarden Israel Asi Votes 2–2–1–1[lower-alpha 15] Juror Vote Alina Benny Ella Regev Ido Ilana Lital

Jury revote Episode # 62 Day # Finale Finalist Israel Asi Votes 6–3 Juror Vote Yarden Asi Idan Asi Alina Asi Benny Israel Ella Israel Regev Asi Ido Asi Ilana Asi Lital Israel

1. No vote; Dana chose to quit the game.
2. No vote; Nava chose to quit the game.
3. For winning the reward/immunity challenge, the Anting Anting tribe got to vote to give immunity to one member of Kapre; Regev won the vote, therefore the five votes cast against him were not counted.
4. The initial vote resulted in a tie between Alina and Regev; as such, the tie was resolved by a firemaking competition, which Regev won. Idan played a hidden immunity idol on Yarden, therefore the one vote against her was not counted.
5. Yarden gave her immunity to Benny, therefore the penalty vote against him was not counted.
6. For winning the reward challenge, Idan got to block another player from voting at the next Tribal Council; he chose Asi.
7. Asi played an extra vote advantage, allowing him to cast two ballots during a single vote.
8. For winning the reward challenge, Yarden got to block another player from voting at the next Tribal Council; she chose Israel.
9. At the Negotiation Cabin before the tribes were switched, Asi and Idan chose one member of the other tribe to lose their vote at the next Tribal Council; they chose Lital and Alina, respectively.
10. At the Negotiation Cabin, Israel and Yarden chose one member of their tribe to vote at the other tribe's Tribal Council in the place of one of that tribe's members, should their tribe win the tribal immunity challenge; they chose Ella and Ido, respectively. Kapre won the challenge and Ella was sent to Anting Anting's Tribal Council, where she chose to take Alina's vote.
11. For winning the duel, the Cabin Keeper voted at the next Tribal Council in the place of the castaway they defeated.
12. For losing the duel, this castaway was unable to vote at the next Tribal Council, while the Cabin Keeper voted in their stead.
13. Ido played an extra vote advantage, allowing him to cast two ballots during a single vote.
14. The player who came in last place during the immunity challenge automatically received a penalty vote at the next Tribal Council.
15. For violating the laws of survival, one vote was disqualified. As a result, the vote was tied between Asi and Israel; Idan and Yarden joined the jury in a new ballot between Asi and Israel to determine the winner. All The votes from this ballot were not revealed.

References

External links

• Official website (in Hebrew)