RON SHAHAR: Eleven Israeli couples went to the biggest television game in the world, five of them remain on the path to the final. TONIGHT ON HAMEROTZ LAMILLION, ON THE WAY TO THE NINTH PIT STOP OF THE RACE: RON SHAHAR: The last couple may find themselves out of the race. INTRO RON SHAHAR: The teams are now on their way to their next destination in Bangkok, the home of Thai boxing, Sasiprapa. Bar and Inna, who received a Yield, will have to wait 30 minutes before they can enter the end point. INNA: What bad guys. BAR: It’s ganging up, just simply a mass lynching. RON SHAHAR: Whereas Tom and Adele have not yet completed the Detour task in the market. TOM: Please. ADELE: That's it, it's over. TOM: Let's get this over with... ADELE: Not finishing it. TOM: We will be last place. ADELE: No. TOM: Come on. ADELE: Not finishing it. RON SHAHAR: Now approaching the next destination are Akiva and Anaelle and Oren and Alon. Skip AKIVA: Here are the taxis. ANAELLE: Come on, come on. Skip ANAELLE: Fast, fast. (Thai) You have to get to...Sasiprapa. AKIVA: We are first, it seems to me, unless someone finished the shopping task before us. ANAELLE: Shoshi, but you have to be the best you can today, you have to be really sharp. C-ANAELLE: We don't rest on our laurels here and we don't reap the rewards easily, we work very, very, very hard. AKIVA: It throws you off balance, which happened yesterday. C-AKIVA: What happened in the Duel with the brothers is proof that the competition increases and devolves to personal lines. Anaelle, she cannot contain this evil. At home, when no one is listening, I call her my soul bird (extremely important person or thing, whose harming causes great sensitivity and pain). When I see someone hurt Anaelle like that I will return it with fire. I mean... C-ANAELLE: He doesn't turn the other cheek. C-AKIVA: I don't turn the other cheek, it spurs me on. Skip (first there) C-ALON: The race becomes more and more difficult and the tensions between the couples intensify. This unfortunate event with Akiva and Anaelle, I don't want to be a judge, I don't want to judge here, but I'm sure they had a very difficult experience here, but I, my mental price, paid for this event. ALON; Focus on the tasks, another two or three minutes to read to understand where the driver is taking. C-ALON: What is important now is to learn from mistakes and draw conclusions, because that is the lesson of this race in my eyes. Right now we are very motivated not to give up and do the work with the intention that it will pay off in the end. ALON: Sawadika. OREN: What is Sawadika? ALON: Thank you, hello. Hello. OREN: Soon he will drop us off here, he will think we have signaled that we have arrived. ALON: Not knowing impurity. AKIVA: Kapunkap. ANAELLE AND AKIVA, CURRENTLY IN FIRST PLACE Roadblock. ANAELLE: Who floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee? RON SHAHAR: A Roadblock task is a task that only one of the partners can perform. The team members must divide the Roadblock tasks equally between them throughout the entire race. In this Roadblock mission, the performing partner will have to enter the Thai boxing ring and have a fight against a local champion. The partner will first have to learn from a local champion a number of defensive and offensive exercises in Thai boxing, which is considered the national sport here. RON SHAHAR: After he feels ready he will enter the centre of the boxing ring, where he will have to apply the knowledge he has acquired against a tough boxer. The one who will judge his performance will be Nong Toom, the Thai lightweight champion who changed genders on the way to the title. Only after he successfully performs two exercises and remains with his teeth in his mouth will he receive the next clue. AKIVA: So I’ll do it? ANAELLE: Yes, I think so, better. AKIVA: Sawadika. ANAELLE: Come on, be calm. Sawadika. C-ANAELLE: As we entered the centre we saw a bunch of Thais there, each one a machine. I told myself that God will have mercy, just don't let them touch my Akiva. Skip C-AKIVA: I had to fight the Thai champion. C-AKIVA: It seems to me the Thai heavyweight champion. ANAELLE: Come on, what a hunk. Skip C-ANAELLE: No matter what Akiva wears, he'll be a gorgeous hunk, like what does it matter, shiny pants, black pants, hot pink pants, hottie. You can't change that, he might as well go with a uh...tomato on his head. C-AKIVA: You are something, you are something. ANAELLE: Shoshi, you’re a champion. Shoshi, Shoshi. C-AKIVA: In the first stage of the training I had to learn the exercises so that later I would be able to perform two of them accurately in front of the champion. It's not easy, it runs fast, it all has to be with very fast reactions. ANAELLE: Shoshi, he’s a bully. Skip ANAELLE: Come on, from the beginning, again. C-AKIVA: It has to be done in a good, correct and accurate way. Skip ANAELLE: Batman, Superman, what's his name? Skip ALON AND OREN, CURRENTLY IN SECOND PLACE ALON: Roadblock. Who floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee? OREN: I’ll do it. C-OREN: We arrived at a boxing ring that... C-ALON: Describe it. C-OREN: Yes, that's right, I thought... C-ALON: No, don't describe it, I'm about to pass out from the heat. Skip ALON: Do it slowly. C-OREN: I was taught some basic steps and then I had to apply those steps plus some choreography and then get in the ring and perform the actions against the Thai Muay Thai champion. OREN: One, two. ALON: No. Just legs, wait. OREN: Not just legs, now you need to combine hands. ALON: Second, do another leg exercise. Left, right, left. C-ALON: You were weak, you couldn't manage your legs, right, left, right, like I didn't understand what was so difficult. He had a cord between his legs and hands. OREN: One, two. ALON: Once more. C-OREN: As a child I would never fight, I had a very big mouth and I knew how to insult in an excellent way and annoy in an even better way. C-ALON: We saw it the other day. C-OREN: Yes, exactly, the day before it was possible to get this impression. ALON: Right, left, high. Learn the movements. C-OREN: Suddenly I have to learn how to fight and take hits which is something that is not my style at all. I matured at a very late age, at the age of 18 I matured. I was a very popular, accepted kid but...and I never got beaten up because I wasn't some big-mouthed thug. C-ALON: It is important for him to say that he was a popular kid. C-OREN: Right. C-ALON: It is. C-OREN: Although I was short. C-ALON: Creature, what is stuck. Skip C-OREN: After a short time I felt very confident in my two exercises, I saw Akiva training on the side and I knew I had an excellent opportunity to overtake him so I entered the ring. OREN “THE ACCEPTED” VS. THAI CHAMPION ALON: To his stomach, great. And up top, excellent. One more left. ALON: Turn over him, another turn over. Skip OSNAT: Driver, say shalom. OSNAT: You are charming, driver, you are stunning. Skip CARMIT: Are you Bangki or Bangkoki? C-OSNAT: Two weeks ago, if they had told us that we were going to be in the final five, I wouldn't have believed it. CARMIT: Come on, Bangkoki, come on. C-OSNAT: After all, we are elderly. C-CARMIT: Old-aged. C-OSNAT: We are middle aged. OSNAT: Ho, how beautiful. CARMIT: What a square, dear. OSNAT: How beautiful. CARMIT: Look, look. OSNAT: Yes, we will tell the head of the council to make us such monuments. CARMIT: A statue holding the lamp. C-OSNAT: We have a very good connection with the couples. C-CARMIT: Compared to Bar and Inna, who are not connected at all. The last two weeks. C-OSNAT: But very much, they are like...talking about the fact that we hate them... C-CARMIT: That’s not true. C-OSNAT: It’s not true, absolutely not true. C-CARMIT: Really not. Skip BAR: Cox, how are you feeling? INNA: Fine. Does this Yield stress you out? BAR: Truthfully, yes, a little. C-INNA: We had to pick up the pace after we realised we had a Yield. We knew there was a chance that we would arrive and the couples would pass in front of us and we would be left out. BAR: We have become somewhere, now, officially like, we have become the main punching bag of the contestants here in the race. Every man for himself, it’s like a jungle here, it's not something that... INNA: I'm so pissed at it, I'm hurt by it. BAR: It...yes. INNA: I can't help but take it personally, I can't. C-BAR: The fact that the other teams decided to gang up on you you is not up to you, it is their decision. The Yemenis can't see our face, Tom and Adele, I'm not getting into it at all. I mean now you can walk home from the game and be defeated just because of a social decision. OSNAT AND CARMIT, CURRENTLY IN THIRD PLACE OSNAT: Who floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee? It’s something about floating. Me? Come on, I’ll do it. In this Roadblock mission you will have to enter the boxing ring...Yoo. C-OSNAT: What now? How do I do Thai boxing with my hand? OSNAT: How is floating, from your mother, what does floating have anything to do with it? Come, come. Skip C-CARMIT: I made you a special ponytail like sumo. Skip C-CARMIT: It was what it is beautiful, you were only missing... C-OSNAT: It was funny to see me in boxer shorts and gloves. Dare anyone to come in front of me. OSNAT: You are with Yemen, Yemen, be careful! Skip OSNAT: Careful! Sorry. OSNAT: Rotten! C-CARMIT: I kept telling her to be careful not to hit, not even jokingly. Still, it's the hand, it's something that can cause her irreversible damage. Foot. C-OSNAT: Carmit is one of those who is more afraid of her body, take care, take care. C-CARMIT: Correct, correct. C-OSNAT: I'm not one of those, I'm what will happen now, live in the moment, I don't care what will happen tomorrow. OSNAT: What are you doing? C-CARMIT: Do you know what damage can be done to you? C-OSNAT: So she will be a little crooked. C-CARMIT: Ah, yes. C-OSNAT: I have a lot of things in my body that are already crooked, so just another, a crooked hand. Skip OSNAT: What? C-OSNAT: The main thing is, you can talk and do... that's the most important thing. C-CARMIT: Yes, right. TOM: I'm getting to the brink of insanity here, I'm on the brink of insanity here. ADELE: That you are crazy, everyone knows. TOM: Enough, I can't, I've been holding myself back for so long, let's get this over with, come on. ADELE: Not finishing it. TOM: So I can't anymore, let's go, I can't stay here. We are in last place. C-TOM: We actually know that we are in last place, with not easy feelings. ADELE: That's it, it's over. TOM: Do your part first. ADELE: Not doing it. I swore I would sit here. TOM: Enough with your bullshit. Come on. ADELE: I swear I'm here until now, no, I'm staying here. C-ADELE: Sometimes we come to disagreements and I will never give up and Tom will never give up. ADELE: I'm not going anywhere, forget it. That's it, these fights got on my nerves. TOM: Fine. ADELE: Too many fights. And I don't want to continue here. TOM: Do you know how much nerves this has already cost me? ADELE: I don't want to continue here. TOM: Even just from your speech yesterday. ADELE: And without you I don't want to continue. C-TOM: You're too aggressive with me, Adele, too much. C-ADELE: Yes? So I'm very aggressive with you, you probably don't know how aggressive you are with me, Tom. TOM: Adele. Adele. Hear Israel, Lord our God, I'm sorry I'm under pressure and I'm not talking to you nicely, I'm sorry. C-TOM: Did I talk to you badly once? ADELE: You spoke to me today in the most disgusting way you have spoken to me in these three years. C-ADELE: Have you ever spoken to me badly? No, never, you...never cursed, never spoke badly, you always speak nicely. Like what... C-TOM: I speak nicely all the time. TOM: Sorry for talking...from the bottom of my heart I'm sorry. I'm begging. Skip C-TOM: The sentence that my father always tells me is that only the strong know how to yield. Skip C-ADELE: Tom now slowly, it seems to me, learns that yielding is good and saying "you're right" is good. Let's hope he gets it later as well. ADELE: Bring her the 40, bring her the 40. Skip TOM: Great! Come, come, come. Sorry for everything, you are my life, my love, you know you are my life. Skip TOM AND ADELE, CURRENTLY IN LAST PLACE TOM: You have to get to Sasiprapa. Skip ADELE: Enough, enough. Never now that he’ll touch me, not even a kiss on the cheek, ever. C-ADELE: At home we sometimes fight a lot, sometimes we can fight...not fight for a week. C-TOM: Who will hear us here, everything is good and everything is going great. C-ADELE: Okay, but here a little less. ADELE: Enough, Tom, I'll spill it on you. C-TOM: I fight with you here much more than at home. C-ADELE: Definitely not. Definitely not. At home we are a thousand times more numerous. ADELE: Tell me, do you want me to slap you? Stop! Enough! TOM: Are you insane? What is this slapping? What, did you become violent too? ADELE: Yes, I've become everything. ADELE: Enough, enough... C-ADELE: I think the show really strengthened our relationship, I think the show did more in the segment... C-TOM: What strengthening, really, something else. TOM: Just a kiss, what? What did I do? C-ADELE: I'm talking about strengthening, about sacrifice, about the fact that we got to know each other better, about the fact that we were abroad together, about the fact that we were in extreme situations together. I'm talking about our relationship, that we got closer, that we were together 24 hours a day, that we got to know each other more than we did for three years together. What’s wrong with you? What, you don't notice? What, are you blind? C-TOM: Fine. “SHOSHI” THE HUNK VS. THAI CHAMPION C-AKIVA: I finished my training and went up to fight against the Thai boxing champion. ANAELLE; Come on, Shoshi, come on, Shoshi! C-AKIVA: The approach was to do it with a lot of confidence, I gave him some real ones. C-ANAELLE: He didn't, he didn't seem to me to be...he didn't look poor. ANAELLE; Come on, Shoshi, come on, Shoshi! Shoshi, Shoshi... C-ANAELLE: Really got into character there, saw things and just got into it. Skip ANAELLE: Under. Skip ANAELLE: Lord have mercy! Skip C-ANAELLE: He's really...you were really good at it. You...it's crazy. Think, the man is a champion. Skip AKIVA: Thank you, thank you, it was great. C-ANAELLE: This is not some amateur player. Believe me, in the race of everything... they bring us champions and maybe we should change careers or something. Skip ANAELLE AND AKIVA, CURRENTLY IN FIRST PLACE ANAELLE: Come on. Route Info. You have to get to Shoshana Restaurant in Khaosan. RON SHAHAR: The couples must now go to the Shoshana restaurant in the Khaosan district. In this restaurant, together with occasional Israeli tourists, they will sing to Shoshana, the owner of the house, the song that was probably written for her. (Shoshana Shoshana) Skip RON SHAHAR: The Shoshana restaurant is considered a restaurant where all Israeli tourists who come to the area gather. The restaurant sells Israeli food for those who miss the taste of home. RON SHAHAR: The couple must try to locate ten Israeli tourists who are here on the street and bring them to the restaurant wearing their team shirts. Only after the couple and the Israeli tourists sing to Shoshana the favourite song of the owners of the place...she will give them the next clue. ANAELLE: Come on. AKIVA: Okay. Khaosan Road. ANAELLE: Here. Skip OREN “THE ACCEPTED” VS. THAI CHAMPION ALON: To his stomach, excellent, and above. Excellent. One more. Move away and jump. C-OREN: I found myself lying on the floor I think at the end of this mission. C-ALON: You were the pinnacle of those stuck in the centre of the arena, as they say. C-OREN: But without a black eye. It's a shame I didn't also wear the black eye at that moment. ALON: That’s it, that’s it. C-ALON: His leg swelled. C-OREN: Here. I have a blue mark. C-ALON: Please. C-OREN: Mom, look. C-ALON: He shows this to his mother. ALON AND OREN, CURRENTLY IN SECOND PLACE ALON: You have to get to Shoshana Restaurant in Khaosan. Shoshana Shoshana Shoshana Moon risen to a cloud Like him to you Shoshana A captain will still sail the sea The sea It was a rough sea The mast... how does it go? It was a stormy sea The mast creaked The bow of the ship is almost worn away How Yoske overcame the whole thing And a cheerful singer so sang ANAELLE: I know And a cheerful singer, so a singer....sang Want more coherent lyrics? They’re readily available online. AKIVA: Kapunkap. ANAELLE: Shoshi. AKIVA: Here, here. Skip How are you? Praise God. Nice to meet you. AKIVA: Great, great. ANAELLE: Wow, how beautiful. AKIVA: Wow, really beautiful. Come on, let's bring people here. BAR AND INNA, CURRENTLY IN FOURTH PLACE BAR: Who floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee? I do it, yes? INNA: Yes, do it. Skip INNA: Don't forget that they won't be really tough with you. BAR: I know. INNA: That's why I put the pink on, well, don't you see? BAR: What? INNA: If I were a guy, I would marry you. C-INNA: Bar looked lovely on the mission. INNA: You do it amazingly. C-BAR: I looked like a sweaty strawberry, in my opinion. C-INNA: She was... C-BAR: Sweaty strawberry. C-INNA: She was just lovely. Skip C-BAR: With all this pink and boxing pants with glitter here and sweats. Skip C-BAR: The sentence we received in the clue, in my opinion, most likely represents the culture of Thai boxing, which is to hover like a butterfly, evade like a bee, apparently you need to be focused, sharp, on the spot, maybe. BAR “SWEATY STRAWBERRY” VS. THAI CHAMPION INNA: Strong, yes, strong, Bar, strong, get him. Skip C-BAR: I sweated and struggled and had a hard time and made noises and moans. PLASTERED HAND OSSIE VS. THAI CHAMPION OSNAT: Be careful not to fuck me up. CARMIT: Careful about the hand. Ossie, be careful about your hand. C-OSNAT: She is the concerned mother, I am the unruly child. CARMIT: Don't forget you are in a cast. C-OSNAT: You are a Polish mother. C-CARMIT: Could be. C-OSNAT: Just accidentally came out of your mother's womb. Who knows, only mother knows who the father is. C-CARMIT: No, but I can't think we're getting out of here... it's no life, with no hand, no... C-OSNAT: Don't overdo it, what no hand. Because of boxing no hand? TOM AND ADELE, CURRENTLY IN LAST PLACE TOM: Who floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee? I’ll do it, okay? ADELE: Okay. Skip C-TOM: I studied Thai boxing, I think it also suited me very well. C-TOM: I am a huge athlete, an exemplary athlete, an outstanding athlete. I should have been a boxer, I'm also a big WWE fan. BAR “SWEATY STRAWBERRY” VS. THAI CHAMPION INNA: Come on, Bar, beautiful, strong. Bar, don't stop, beautiful, don't stop. One more, get closer to him. Chase him, chase him, he's running away. Give it to him, give it to him. One more time, give it to him, Bar, give it to him. PLASTERED HAND OSSIE VS. THAI CHAMPION Skip INNA: Bar, Bar, don’t stop. INNA: Good, more, more. C-INNA: She really entered like into such a trance as if she, she doesn't care, she doesn't stop until she succeeds now. INNA: Jump on him now, now. Get up fast, get up, get up, get up. Step on him. Come on, Bar. Skip BAR AND INNA, CURRENTLY IN THIRD PLACE BAR: You have to get to Shoshana Restaurant in Khaosan. INNA: Come on. Skip INNA: I think the Israelis will cooperate. Israelis have such a thing that they like to see Israelis abroad. BAR: Probably. INNA: It's that kind of love. BAR: If you saw an Israeli, and he would tell you, come help me, there's no way you wouldn't help him. INNA: Right. BAR: No way, like no way. I have no money, I lost my wallet, as happened to us, help me, I didn't find it, come show me, I will help with everything. ALON: Here is the flag for this one. Skip OREN: Where is the street? ALON: There it is. OREN: Is this the street, Khaosan? C-ALON: The mission was to travel to the greatest and most authentic place in Bangkok. Go to Khaosan Road. As is known, there are no Thais there, there are only Israelis who are stuck there for three, four, five, six months, eight months. ALON: Guys, I need your attention, your attention. Dear Israelis. C-ALON: We entered the Eretz Israel Museum in Thailand, the Israeli liaison. There were already about thirty Israelis there in ShG. (gate patrol guards) ALON: You four are coming with us, okay? OREN: To Shoshana Restaurant... ALON: Five minutes. OREN: Sing Shoshana with us, five minutes. ALON: Sing Shoshana Shoshana Shoshana, take a nice photo and move on. Skip OREN: Are there any Israelis here? ALON: Are you with us? How long? ALON: Five minutes, it's Shoshana. OREN: This is here, this is Shoshana. I'm coming, no need to shout. AKIVA: You are Israeli? ANAELLE: Excellent. Can you help us? Maybe. ANAELLE: Please help us, please. AKIVA: Put it on you. ANAELLE: Wait for us at the restaurant. Thank you, pure soul. AKIVA: Come on, we need Israelis, ten Israelis, come on. Put on shirts, put on shirts. C-ANAELLE: We're just getting to Khaosan and I'm like, guys, we need your help, all of a sudden, nothing, then boom. AKIVA: Wait, guys, listen, listen, listen. ANAELLE: Listen. You have to sing the song Shoshana Shoshana with us, okay? Okay. ANAELLE: Come on, go. C-ANAELLE: We had more than ten. C-AKIVA: We had 15 people. C-ANAELLE: We had 15 people. C-AKIVA: Like in a second. Skip C-ANAELLE: There are a lot of Israelis there and there is nothing to be done, you take two Israelis, ten Israelis, twenty Israelis, put them abroad, they are each other's best friends. AKIVA: Okay, onwards. ANAELLE: Three, four and.... Skip C-AKIVA: It is amazing, to see two Israelis abroad, there is no such thing between two Frenchmen, there is no such thing between two Germans, there is no such thing in any other nation, only two Israelis meeting abroad as brothers. BAR: Okay. Okay, let's recognize Israelis. He isn’t. INNA: Is there anyone Israeli here? C-BAR: How do you recognize Israelis abroad? Girls. C-INNA: Sandals. C-BAR: Men, backpackers, assembled, dreadlocks, mess, Teva Naot (sandal brand), sleeves. C-INNA: Loud. C-BAR: Pressure, blondes like us, with such a root like that in the head. INNA: Israelis? Israelis? Israelis? Let's post a sign maybe and go, Israelis? BAR: No, you have to shout, you have to make noise with them. Are there any Israelis here? INNA: Guys, are there any Israelis here? Is there anyone Israeli here? BAR: Are there any Israelis here? INNA: Friend, are you Israeli? I have no idea... C-BAR: We recognize the Israelis, it's us, we recognize our own people somewhere. Less politeness, less civility. We are like that too when we are like that, there is nothing to be done. Like, going out... C-INNA: We'll refine it and call it authentic. INNA: Are you Israeli? BAR: Guys, come on, come on. INNA: Come on, we need your help. BAR: Here, come, you have to, come with us, we'll finish it chop chop. Are you Israeli and so is she? What? BAR: No, they’re not Israelis. ALON; Stand here, make a semicircle in front of Shoshana. Guys, thanks. OREN: Ready? ALON: Ready. Skip