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The Voice Israel (season 2)

Broadcast from 12 December 2012 (2012-12-12) – 23 March 2013 (2013-03-23)
Coaches Shlomi Shabat
Aviv Geffen
Shlomi Bracha & Yuval Banay
Sarit Hadad
Host(s) Michael Aloni
Co-host(s) Yarden Harel (V Reporter)
Broadcaster Channel 2 (Reshet)
Finals venue Nokia Arena
Lina Makhul
Origin Acre, Israel
Song "Hallelujah"
Mentor Shlomi Shabat
Ofir Ben Shitrit

The Voice Israel (Season 2) is the second 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 Mashina. Lina Makhul was declared the winner, with Ofir Ben Shitrit as runner-up.

The coaches performed "אין מקום אחר" (Mashina song) at the start of the show.

episode before the battles

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.

Each mentor chose the contestants from his team to move on to the Top 16, with the same "My Voice" button switch.

The contestants had to sing songs which are originally performed by the other mentors. Each mentor chose the contestants from his team to move on to the Top 12, without the twist of "My Voice" button.

The Top 8 contestants to move on to the semi-finals were chosen only by the audience's votes.

The Top 4 contestants to move on to the final were chosen only by the audience's votes.

The contestants sang songs by the Israeli artist Shlomo Artzi.


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