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The safe is that an Israeli television video that he invented and laid a tele. After winning success in Israel, the industrial format was sold to France, Hong Kong, Greece and Cyprus, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Thailand, UK and Vietnam. In the U.S., the ABC network was supposed to raise the format in 2003, but it didn’t end.

Production and broadcast
The playback was developed by Erez Tal, Ruth Nisen and Ori Gross, and was produced by Tal Productions, "Mana Productions". “The cover” was announced in the video, “Who wants to be a millionaire?” that came up in a network broadcast in November 1999. “The cover” rose on July 5, 2000 and recorded the same week in the ratings of 22.4% in front of 24.9% to “Who wants to be a millionaire?” A week later, the competitor moved 23.4% to 22.7%. And in the summer’s end it was an average ratings of 21.2% versus 19.7% “who wants to be a millionaire?” By November 2000, the program, alongside Erez Tal, Ilana Brakowitz. The first season broadcast ended in January 2001.

At the end of July 2000, a request was submitted to a representative lawsuit against the “staker” on the grounds of making the lottery without permission, due to the demand for payment of NIS 8 for participation in the program, when the viewers are selected in the lottery from the spectators seeking to participate in the program that week. Erez Tal went out against the prosecutor in live broadcasts, and then was required to apologize. In May 2001, the Tel Aviv District Court ruled that the program indeed includes components of prohibited guerrillas. The judge, Ruth Straenberg-Alyz, determined that a rainbow and package tele transmission company violated the provisions of the law prohibiting gambling, groceries and prohibited games. However, the request was rejected to confirm a representational claim of NIS 2.4 million on the grounds of damage caused by participants in the program.

In October 2000, TV company King Ward, CBS’s subsidiary from the United States, acquired the distribution rights of the “host” worldwide. The agreement stipulated that the arch and “manship production” will receive a percentage of the sale of the program to different countries in the world according to a variable key, which is the size of the market in the same country. As part of the agreement, CBS was given the option to produce the program within the borders of the United States, but it did not produce it.

In July 2001, it began broadcasting the second season of the "host", but it won a lower ratings than the first season. In the second season, the program was broadcast simultaneously on television, online and mobile, through a collaboration between the “interactive” and slocom companies, which developed together a game for mobile phones and the Internet.

In May 2002, a version of the British ITV program called "The Vault", which at the same time sold the rights to the online game for a British company.

In July 2002, Channel 10 began negotiations for the acquisition of the “host”
But the “chair” broadcasts activated the right of refusal it had, and the program did not move to Channel 10.

In December 2002, Erez Tal announced that he was moving to Channel 10 after signing a $5 million contract. However, after Channel 10 was in trouble, the agreement was frozen in March 2003, and was finally canceled in March 2004 without having made any plans for the channel.

In October 2000, the Cable Company launched a new channel dedicated to the program. The channel can be played in the interactive channel with the help of the sign.

The last season of the decade was aired in 2007 on Channel 2 as part of the arch broadcasts with a gaseous crystal.

The structure of competition
Each program has three competitors.

First stage
In the first stage, each game runs separately, with its permission 3 minutes to answer 10 questions. In each question, the contender accepts the number of letters in each word in the requested response and sometimes a number of letters from the answer. The judge answers the questions himself, and after being shown to him