Survivor: The Philippines (Israeli season) explained

Survivor: The Philippines (Hebrew: הישרדות הפיליפינים, Hisardut HaPhilipinim) is the third season of Israeli competitive reality television show Survivor. It was filmed in February and April 2009 in the Philippines, and aired on Channel 10 from August 29 until December 30 of that year, when Shay Arel was named the winner over Tom Altagar and Leora Goldberg by a vote of 6–3–0, and Tal Englander was named the audience's favorite player by winning a public vote.

This season featured the most competitors to date, with 25. Seven of these contestants were eliminated from the main game in the first two days, and sent to another island to compete against each other for a chance to return. This was shown in a four-part companion series, Survivor: The Philippines – The Hidden Island (Hebrew: הישרדות הפיליפינים – האי הנעלם, Hisardut HaPhilipinim — HaAi HaNaalam), which aired separately from the main series during the first four weeks of broadcast.

The game largely followed the format from the previous season, but hidden immunity idols and Exile Island duels were modified for this season only. Instead of hidden immunity idols being hidden at tribe camps or Exile Island, the winner of each post-merge duel received half an idol, which could only be used at the following two Tribal Councils; castaways could either try to win the subsequent duel for the other half, or combine halves with the castaway who won an adjacent duel. For the duels, the Exile Island component was removed, and the dueling castaways returned to their tribes immediately following the challenge.

This season also featured an appearance from Rupert Boneham, a contestant from the American version of Survivor, who appeared as part of a reward in a reward challenge.

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The Hidden Island

This season introduced the Hidden Island, a secluded location where eliminated contestants competed against each other to return to the game. During the first two days, the 25 contestants competed in a series of challenges; one castaway was eliminated on Day 1 after losing two challenges, while six more were eliminated the following day after not being chosen for tribes. These seven castaways were sent to the Hidden Island, unbeknownst to the other castaways.

On the Hidden Island, the castaways competed in challenges; the first-place competitor won a reward and the power to nominate a castaway for banishment, while the last-place competitor automatically became the other nominee. The five non-nominated castaways then voted between the two nominees to permanently eliminate one from the game, at which point they were replaced with the latest castaway eliminated from the main game (the new arrivals were immune from nomination for one round, but were still eligible to compete in the challenge). After four rounds, the seven remaining Hidden Island residents competed for four spots to return to the game: one by being chosen by the other residents as the "best social player" and three by winning a two-stage challenge. The four returning contestants then became the captains for two new tribes, and the Hidden Island was retired.

The Hidden Island contestants were given an additional method of re-entry by way of a team challenge. The castaways sent four representatives to one of the tribe camps, where they were given ten minutes to find a special flag; doing so would result in all seven Hidden Island contestants returning to the game, with that tribe taking their place on the Hidden Island. The Hidden Island contestants lost this challenge.

Contestants

Contestant	Original tribe	Switched tribe	Merged tribe	Main game	Hidden Island
Ori Lapid 32, Tel Aviv
Eitan Bernat 23, Herzliya
Liran Giladi 23, Caesarea
Merav Fishelson 44, Tel Aviv
Avital Eisman Returned to game
Liad Farkash Returned to game
Tal "Talco" Cohen Returned to game
Meital Ben David 31, Kiryat Ono
Noa Waintraub 26, Ra'anana
Riki Shemesh Returned to game
Yael Zucker 23, Tel Aviv
Yakov Crispel 40, Haifa
Inna Bakelman 19, Gan Yavne
Avital Eisman 23, Hadera
Natalie Niv 28, Nahariya
Tal Ben David 29, Sdot Yam
Avi Raz 27, Mevaseret Zion
Tal Englander 30, Tel Aviv
Hanoch Budin 46, Ness Ziona
Ziv Gelbart 39, Megadim
Riki Shemesh 33, Gan Sorek
Avigail Perl 25, Tel Aviv
Ohad Taib 23, Rishon LeZion
Liad Farkash 22, Ramat Yishai
Hadas Hornblass 27, Elkana
Tal "Talco" Cohen 29, Haifa				9th jury member Finale
Leora Goldberg 50, Ra'anana
Tom Altagar 23, Ganei Tikva
Shay Arel 31, Kiryat Ata

Season summary

Main game

	The Hidden Island
	Episodes		Challenge winner(s)		Voted out	Finish	Episode		Challenge winner	Challenge loser	Winner's nominee	Eliminated	Finish
	No.	Original air date	Reward	Immunity			No.	Original air date
	1	August 29, 2009	None			Eliminated Day 1	HI1	September 3, 2009	1st banished Day 3
						Not chosen Day 2
	2	September 2, 2009				1st voted out Day 4	HI2	September 10, 2009					Quit Day 6
	3 & 4	September 5 & 9, 2009		2nd voted out Day 7	HI3	September 17, 2009	2nd banished Day 9
	5 & 6	September 12 & 16, 2009				3rd voted out Day 10	HI4	September 24, 2009					3rd banished Day 12
	7 & 8	September 23 & 26, 2009	4th voted out Day 13	9	September 30, 2009		None			Lost challenge Day 14
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Episode! colspan="3"

Challenge winner(s)	Duel		Voted out	Finish
No.	Original air date	Reward			Tribal immunity	Individual immunity	Winner	Loser
9 & 10	September 30 &<br />October 3, 2009	None	None		Evacuated Day 20
				5th voted out Day 20
11 & 12	October 7 & 10, 2009	Both tribes	None		Evacuated Day 21
				Quit Day 23
13 & 14	October 14 & 17, 2009	Multiple						6th voted out Day 26
15 & 16	October 21 & 24, 2009							7th voted out Day 29

Episodes! colspan=3

Challenge winner(s)	Duel		Eliminated	Finish
No.	Original air date	Reward			Immunity	Veto	Winner	Loser
17, 18 & 19	October 28 & 31, November 4, 2009							8th voted out 1st jury member Day 33
20 & 21	November 7 & 11, 2009							9th voted out 2nd jury member Day 36
22 & 23	November 14 & 18, 2009							10th voted out 3rd jury member Day 39
24 & 25	November 21 & 25, 2009							11th voted out 4th jury member Day 42
26 & 27	November 28 &<br />December 2, 2009		12th voted out 5th jury member Day 45
			13th voted out 6th jury member Day 45
28 & 29	December 5 & 9, 2009							14th voted out 7th jury member Day 48
30 & 31	December 12 & 16, 2009							15th voted out 8th jury member Day 51
33 & 35	December 23 & 30, 2009	None		None				Eliminated 9th jury member Finale
			Jury vote
			2nd runner-up
			Runner-Up
			Sole Survivor

Voting history

			Original tribes				Switched tribes							Merged tribe
Episode #			2	4	6	8	10		11	12		14	16	19	21	23	25	27		29	31	35
Day #			4	7	10	13	20		21	23		26	29	33	36	39	42	45		48	51	Finale
Eliminated
Votes
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Voter			Vote

Hidden Island voting history

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Hidden Island
Episode #	HI1	HI2	HI3	HI4	9
Day #	3	6	9	12	14
Eliminated
Votes					colspan="3"
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Voter	Vote				Result
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