HaAh HaGadol (franchise)

HaAh HaGadol (franchise)
Country	Israel
Language(s)	Hebrew
Executive Producer(s)	Elad Kuperman
Television Network(s)	Keshet (2008-2017) Reshet (2018-)
Host	Assi Azar (2008–2014) Erez Tal (2008-2017) Korin Gideon (2015–2017) Asi Israelof (2018) Liron Weizman (2018-) Ofer Shechter (2018) Guy Zu-Aretz (2019-)
Series Run	September 1, 2008 -

HaAh HaGadol is the Israeli version of the popular reality franchise Big Brother.

How it Works

Big Brother is a reality television show in which a group of people live together in a large house, isolated from the outside world but continuously watched by television cameras. Each series lasts for around three months, and there are 10-17 participants. The housemates try to win a cash prize by avoiding periodic evictions from the house.

History

The idea for the show is said to come during a brainstorm session at the production house of John de Mol Produkties (an independent part of Endemol) on 4 September 1997. The first Big Brother broadcast was in the Netherlands in 1999 on the Veronica TV channel. It was picked up by Germany, Portugal, USA, UK, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland and Italy the following year and became a world-wide sensation. Since then it has been a prime-time hit in almost 70 countries. The show's name comes from George Orwell's 1948 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Editions

HaAh HaGadol Seasons
Season	Channel	Season Run	Days	Housemates	Winner	Runner-Up
HaAh HaGadol 1	Keshet	September 1, 2008 - December 16, 2008	107	20	Shifra Cornfeld	Yossi Boublil
HaAh HaGadol VIP 1		March 1, 2009 - March 31, 2009	31	13	Dudi Melitz	Shimi Tavori
HaAh HaGadol 2		November 15, 2009 - March 4, 2010	110	21	Eliraz Sadeh	Sa'ar Scheinfein
HaAh HaGadol 3		December 8, 2010 - March 26, 2011	109	22	Jackie Menahem	Lihi Griner
HaAh HaGadol 4		January 1, 2012 - April 2, 2012	93	21	Kuti Sebbag	Tamir Verdi
HaAh HaGadol 5		May 5, 2013 - August 27, 2013	115	23	Tahounia Rubel	Levana Gogman
HaAh HaGadol 6		May 14, 2014 - August 30, 2014	109	19	Tal Gilboa	Eldad Gal-Ed
HaAh HaGadol VIP 2		May 10, 2015 - June 17, 2015	38	12	Moshik Afia	Niro Levy
HaAh HaGadol 7		December 16, 2015 - April 7, 2016	113	21	Shay Mika Ifrah	Barak Edri
HaAh HaGadol 8		December 18, 2016 - March 28, 2017	101	18	Avihai Ohana	Shani Goldshtein
HaAh HaGadol 9	Reshet	May 8, 2018 - September 1, 2018	120	24	Israel Ogalbo	Eliav Rachamin
HaAh HaGadol VIP 3		January 12, 2019 - March 2, 2019	50	15	Asaf Goren	Shay Hay
HaAh HaGadol 10		January 1, 2020 - April 4, 2020	95	20	Tikva Gidon	Yarden Edri
HaAh HaGadol 11		December 5, 2020 - March 22, 2021	108	24	Zehava Ben	Joezi Zirah
HaAh HaGadol VIP 4		July 10, 2021 - August 31, 2021	57	15	Oren Hazan	Tamir Verdi
HaAh HaGadol 12		June 7, 2022 - September 17, 2022	103	24	Talia Ovadia	Bar Cohen
HaAh HaGadol 13		May 30, 2023 - September 10, 2023	104	27	Yuval Maatook	Stav Katzin
HaAh HaGadol 14		June 2, 2024 - September 21, 2024	112		Or Ben David	Frida Uziel
HaAh HaGadol 15		May 20, 2025 - TBA