The X Factor Israel is the Israeli version of the British television music competition The X Factor. The fourth season run between October 30, 2021, and February 5, 2022, on Reshet 13, airing in prime time.
On April 6, 2021, it was announced that the winner of this season would represent in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022. Michael Ben David was the selected entrant with the song "I.M".
Judges and hosts hosts the fourth season. All the members of the judging panel changed from the previous season: Mizrahi singer Margalit Tzan'ani, singer-songwriter Aviv Geffen, singer and Eurovision 2018 winner Netta Barzilai, while a fourth and fifth judges revealed to be Ran Danker and Miri Mesika, making it the first season of X Factor Israel to feature five judges instead of four.
Show creator Simon Cowell was originally announced as a judge for the season before pulling out.
Auditions The auditions started on October 30, 2021, and ended on December 12. Contestants need to get "yes" from at least four of the five judges in order to qualify.
Among the contestants were: Inbal Bibi, a competitor of season 1 of The X Factor Israel; Adi Cohen and Liron Lev, a finalist and a competitor of Kokhav Nolad season 2; Linet, a singer who participated in the ; Sapir Saban, who won in season 4 of The Voice Israel; Shachar Adawi, a competitor of Rising Star ; the hip hop duo Ido B Zooki; Amit Ben Zaken, the brother of The X Factor Israel season 1 contestant Eden Ben Zaken; Gai Sims, the son of basketball player Willie Sims; Shira Atias, the cousin of representor of Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 Nadav Guedj; Shimi Tavori, a singer who participated in the and 1993; Yifat Ta'asa, the ex-wife of singer Arik Sinai; Eli Huli, another contestant of The Voice Israel season 4; songwriter Maya Simantov; Ahtaliyah Pierce, a competitor of the second season of The Voice Israel; Zohar Raziel, a competitor of American Idol and Rising Star ; basketball player brothers Ben and Nimrod Altit; Daniel Pruzansky, a member of Kids.il, the band that represented Israel in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2012; Maor Titon, a competitor of season 1 of The Voice Israel; Yohai Moreno, the brother of late Lieutenant colonel Emmanuel Moreno; Michael Rose (formerly Misha Soukhinin), a member of rock band Distorted Harmony which was also a competitor of the second season of The Voice Israel; Inbar Yochananof, a member of the Voca People; Shalva Berti, a singer who participated in the , 1992 and 1995; Hadar Lee, a competitor of season 2 of The X Factor Israel; and Danna Reuveni, the granddaughter of poet Ehud Manor. TV host Guy Zu-Aretz participated in the auditions as well, but only as a cameo.
DrawPerformerSongJudges' voteResultDankerBarzilaiMesikaGeffenTzan'aniAudition 1 (October 30, 2021) 1Cama Camila"Sweet Dreams" Advanced 2Ilay Elmakies"" Advanced 3Micheal Ben David"Juice" / "Ima" Advanced 4Saray Adar"" – – Eliminated 5Anna Stefani"" – Advanced 6Inbal Bibi"Time After Time" Advanced 7Elisha Nachmias"" AdvancedAudition 2 (November 1, 2021) 1Adi Cohen & Liron Lev"Nothing Compares 2 U" Advanced 2Abigail Moyal"" – Advanced 3Roei Edri"" – – Eliminated 4Gali Ben Shoshan""גלי בן שושן – אתה לא ראוי | 💙🤍💙 אקס פקטור לאירוויזיו, youtube.com Advanced 5Linet"" AdvancedAudition 3 (November 4, 2021) 1Tarante Groove Machine"" Advanced 2Shahar Admoni"" Advanced 3Men Yahel"" – – – – – Eliminated 4Sapir Saban"Hopelessly Devoted to You" Advanced 5Yuval Levkovski"Hard to Say I'm Sorry" AdvancedAudition 4 (November 7, 2021) 1Shachar Adawi"Hello" Advanced 2Ido B Zooki"" Advanced 3Anna Shpitz"Soon We'll Be Found" Eliminated 4Amit Ben Zaken"" AdvancedAudition 5 (November 9, 2021) 1Uriah Azari"" Advanced 2May Maya Malul"" – – – Eliminated 3Gai Sims"Just the Two of Us" Advanced 4Stevie June"Dancing On My Own" – Advanced 5Amit Shetach"Cuckoo" AdvancedAudition 6 (November 11, 2021) 1Itay Paz"The Boxer" Advanced 2Zehava Cohen"" Advanced 3Yoav Dalal"" – – – – – Eliminated 4Shira Atias"Jealous" – Advanced 5Shimi Tavori"" AdvancedAudition 7 (November 14, 2021) 1Ron Vaknin"" Advanced 2Hila Segev"" – Eliminated 3Nadir Hawa"Save Your Tears" – Advanced 4Yifat Ta'asa"The Greatest Love of All" – – – Eliminated 5Tal Tzuker"" – – Eliminated 6Eli Huli"Everybody's Changing" AdvancedAudition 8 (November 16, 2021) 1Petahya Levi"" Eliminated 2Maya Simantov"Can't Help Falling in Love" Advanced 3Mor Chenson"Sex Bomb" – Eliminated 4Shaya Avitan"In a Manner of Speaking" – Advanced align="left" align="left" colspan="5" Audition 9 (November 18, 2021) 1Eitiel Zini"" – – Eliminated 2Gai'da Abu Awad"" Advanced 3Tzlil Halaf"" – – – Eliminated 4Udi Tzabari"" Eliminated 5Chen Hazot"" Advanced 6Libi (Reut Naftali)"Don't Start Now" AdvancedAudition 10 (November 21, 2021) 1Ruth Hatuma"" Advanced 2Avraham Hatuma"" Advanced 3Dganit Dado"Toy" – – – – – Eliminated 4Ahtaliyah Pierce"Versace on the Floor" Advanced 5Beast Crew"" – Advanced 6Agam Abuchatzeira"" AdvancedAudition 11 (November 23, 2021) 1Dan Biton"" Advanced 2Pazi (Paz Epstein)"" Eliminated 3Anna RF"" Eliminated 4Netta Rosenvelt"Safe and Sound" Advanced 5Almog Fadida"" Advanced 6Lia Navipur"Wrecking Ball" AdvancedAudition 12 (November 25, 2021) 1Yahali Akunis"" Advanced 2Zohar Raziel"Arcade" Advanced 3Ben Altit"" – – – – – Eliminated 4Nimrod Altit"Fast Car" – – – Eliminated 5Shirel Ahiel"Anyone" Advanced 6Shiran and Ron"" – AdvancedAudition 13 (November 28, 2021) 1Noy Azoulay"I Have Nothing" Advanced 2Daniel Pruzansky"" – – – Eliminated 3Liza Orman"Umbrella" Advanced 4Maor Titon"" / "" AdvancedAudition 14 (November 30, 2021) 1Rabotai"" – – – – – Eliminated 2Tomer Almog"I Have Nothing" Advanced 3Dor Dahan"" – – – – – Eliminated 4Noam Azut"" Advanced 5Yalin Ali"Another Love" – – – – – Eliminated 6Yohai Moreno"" AdvancedAudition 15 (December 2, 2021) 1Orian Atia"" Advanced 2Dahlia Hershofet"What's Up?" – – – – – Eliminated 3Noam Banai"I Need a Dollar" Advanced 4Noam Levi"Juice" – – Eliminated 5Gute Gute"" – – – Eliminated 6Aviv Kharazi"" AdvancedAudition 16 (December 5, 2021) 1Snir Hadad"Johnny" – – – – – Eliminated 2Daniel Mamyev"" Advanced 3Toosha (Netta Alexeli)"Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing" Advanced 4Orian Ron"" – – – – – Eliminated 5Orr Alkalai"" – – – Eliminated 6Michael Rose"Tornado" AdvancedAudition 17 (December 7, 2021) 1Leah Masihid"" Advanced 2Inbar Yochananof"Levitating" – Advanced 3Orr Barak"I Need You" – – – Eliminated 4Bisan Abu Laban"Hallelujah" Advanced 5Ben Tzur"" Advanced 6Shalva Berti"" – – – – – EliminatedAudition 18 (December 9, 2021) 1Loren Dervis"" / "Rise Up" – Advanced 2Ido Biton"" – – – Eliminated3Tomer Maya"Fallin'" – – – – – AdvancedHadar Lee – – – – – Eliminated 4Alex Rosvitzev"Let My People Go" – – – – – Eliminated 5Semi Ohayon"" – – – – – Eliminated 6Dafna Reuveni"" – AdvancedAudition 19 (December 12, 2021) 1Yovel Adar"" – – – Eliminated 2Elyakir Keren"" – – Eliminated 3Nofar Shuker"" Advanced 4Dana Vais"This Love" – – Eliminated 5Omer Shuker"Fly Me to the Moon" Advanced
Judge Houses The Judge Houses have begun on December 14, 2021. The judges had to choose from each of their categories 4 out of their 8 members (asides the Groups and Over 25's group, which consists of 9 members).
Key: – Eliminated in the judges' house
Top 33 – Judges' houses Category (mentor) Acts Girls (Geffen) Shira Atias Toosha (Netta Elkasalsi) Inbal Bibi Abigail Moyal Ruth Hatuma Sapir Saban Anna Stefani Gai'da Abu Awad Boys (Netta) Gai Sims Yohai Moreno Micheal Ben David Eli Huli Amit Ben Zaken Shachar Adawi Elisha Nachmias Aviv Kharazi Groups and Over 25's (Mesika and Margol) Shimi Tavori Cama Camila Linet Adi Cohen & Liron Lev Maya Simantov Tarante Groove Machine Stevie June Ido B Zooki Shiran and Ron Teens (Danker) Amit Shetach Liza Orman Agam Abuchatzeira Ron Vaknin Lia Navipur Omer Shuker Shahar Admoni Ilay Elmakies
Chairs
Key: – Received a chair and passed to the Live Shows – Received a chair, was later replaced and eventually eliminated – Didn't receive a chair and was eliminated
Draw Performer Song Mentor's decision Switched withDecember 14, 2021 – Girls (Aviv Geffen) 1Shira Atias"Crazy in Love" Put in chair 1 – 2Ruth Hatuma"" Eliminated – 3Anna Stefani"The Sound of Silence" Put in chair 2– 4Toosha (Netta Elkasalsi)"Breathe Me" Put in chair 3 – 5Inbal Bibi"Killing Me Softly with His Song" Put in chair 4– 6Gai'da Abu Awad"" Put in chair 3 Toosha (Netta Elkasalsi) 7Abigail Moyal"" Eliminated – 8Sapir Saban"" Put in chair 1 Shira Atias December 16, 2021 – Groups and Over 25's (Miri Mesika and Margalit Tzan'ani) 1Cama Camila"Crazy" Put in chair 1 – 2Adi Cohen & Liron Lev"When We Were Young" Put in chair 2 → Moved to chair 1 Cama Camila 3Ido B Zooki & Omer Gani"" Eliminated – 4Linet" ()"Linet - kil duvarlar | 💙🤍💙 X-Faktörü İsrail, youtube.com Put in chair 3 – 5Stevie June"I'm So Excited" Put in chair 4 – 6Maya Simantov"Alone" Put in chair 4 Stevie June 7Shimi Tavori"Without You" Eliminated – 8Shiran and Ron"Hotline Bling" Put in chair 4 Maya Simantov 9Tarante Groove Machine"Make Hafla (Not War)" Put in chair 2 Adi Cohen & Liron LevDecember 19, 2021 – Boys (Netta Barzilai) 1Elisha Nachmias"" Put in chair 1 – 2Gai Sims"" Put in chair 2 → Moved to chair 3 Michael Ben David 3Michael Ben David"California Dreamin'" Put in chair 3 → Moved to chair 2 Gai Sims 4Yohai Moreno"Blues Knaani" Eliminated – 5Eli Huli"Broken Strings" Put in chair 4– 6Aviv Kharazi"" Put in chair 3 Gai Sims 7Shachar Adawi"Just the Way You Are" Put in chair 3 Aviv Kharazi 8Amit Ben Zaken"" Eliminated –December 23, 2021 – Teens (Ran Danker) 1Omer Shuker"Eternal Flame" Put in chair 1 – 2Amit Shetach"" Put in chair 2 – 3Liza Orman"You Don't Own Me" Put in chair 3 – 4Ron Vaknin"" Put in chair 4 – 5Shahar Admoni"" Put in chair 2 Amit Shetach 6Agam Abuchatzeira"Space Oddity" Put in chair 3 Liza Orman 7Ilay Elmakies"" Put in chair 4 Ron Vaknin 8Lia Navipur"" Put in chair 1 Omer Shuker
Live shows Live shows began on December 26, 2021.
Results summary
Color key –Contestant was nominated for elimination and eventually saved from elimination –Contestant was nominated for elimination and eventually eliminated –Contestant lost the Elimination Chair challenge and was immediately eliminated
Contestant Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Final Sunday Thursday Sunday Thursday Sunday Tuesday Sunday Tuesday SundayThursday Saturday Michael Ben David Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe SafeWinner Eli Huli Safe Safe Safe Saved Safe Safe2nd place Inbal Bibi Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Saved3rd place Sapir Saban Safe Safe Safe Saved Safe Saved Saved 4th Eliminated (week 6, Saturday) Anna Stefani Safe Saved Safe Safe SafeSafe 5th Eliminated (week 5, Thursday) Shachar Adawi Safe Safe Saved Safe Safe 6th Eliminated (week 5, Thursday) Ilay Elmakies Safe Safe Saved 7th Eliminated (Week 4, Tuesday) Linet Saved Safe 8th Eliminated (Week 4, Sunday) Shiran & Ron Safe Saved 9th Eliminated (Week 3, Tuesday) Adi Cohen Saved 10th Eliminated (Week 3, Sunday) Lia Navipur Safe 11th Eliminated (Week 2, Thursday) Tarante Groove Machine Safe 12th Gai'da Abu Awad Safe 13th Eliminated (Week 2, Sunday) Shahar Admoni Safe 14th Liron Lev 15th Withdrew (Week 1, Thursday) Agam Abuchatzeira 16th Eliminated (Week 1, Sunday) Elisha Nachmias 17th
Live show details
Week 1
Sunday (December 26)
+ Week 1 Sunday results Contestant Order Song Results Boys (Netta Barzilai) Michael Ben David 1 "It's a Sin" Safe Shachar Adawi 2 "" Safe Elisha Nahmias 3 "" Eliminated Eli Huli 4 "Heathens" Safe Teens (Ran Danker) Agam Abuchatzeira 1 "Heart of Glass" Eliminated Ilay Elmakies 2 "" Safe Shahar Admoni 3 "" Safe Lia Navipur 4 "The Middle" Safe Thursday (December 30)