In Israel, on April 8, 2008, the Israeli television network Reshet announced their plans to produce their version of the show, "HaMerotz LaMillion" (lt. The Race to the Million). Its first season premiered on February 5, 2009, on Channel 2. The first four seasons of the show was a co-production by Reshet and activeTV, an Australian production company that had also produced the Asian version of the race. Since the fifth season, the show has been produced in-house by Reshet, and in 2017 Reshet launched their own channel that became the new home of the show starting with the sixth season.