As of September 2025, our compilation of Channel 2’s top-rated series boasts over 20 unique shows. Premiering in 1978 and 1992, Zehu Ze and A Matter of Time are among Channel 2’s most celebrated shows. Showcasing over 20 shows from 1978 up until 2015, Channel 2 stands as a beacon of television excellence.
Plots of the episodes revolved around different subjects related to life in Israel, fashions like Folk dancing, tributes to classics like Charlie Chaplin movies, or contemporary series like The Simpsons and Dallas.
After 17 years in captivity, Israeli soldiers Nimrode Klein, Uri Zach, and Amiel Ben Horin return home to the country that made them national icons. They work to overcome the trauma of torture and captivity while settling back into their interrupted family lives. Meanwhile, the military psychiatrist assigned to them finds discrepancies in the soldiers' testimonies, and launches an investigation to discover what they are hiding.
The series, loosely based on the true story of the assassination in Dubai of a senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh - the co-founder of military wing of the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas on 19 January 2010, revolves around five ordinary Israeli citizens who discover one morning via the media that they are the principal suspects of a high-profile kidnapping and are implicated as culprits in the kidnapping.
The story of Shemesh, a Simple guy from the suburbs who moves to the big city to fulfill his dreams appealed to the Israeli market as they've also crowned. Shemesh's Struggle to cope with life in the big city, Financial, Social and Romantic wise, provides endless comic moments, and filled with laughs and humor its 6 seasons, Maintaining great popularity and high rating scores. Along with Shemesh, staring in the show and taking part in his life adventure, are his best friends and neighbors
Israeli TV sitcom about a divorced couple trying to live their lives together.
Survivor (Hebrew: הישרדות, Hisardut), formerly known as Survivor 10, is an Israeli reality competition game show based on the popular international Survivor television franchise. The series began in December 2007 and aired on Israeli's Channel 10 for 6 seasons. After legal issues between Channel 10 and Castaway Television, the series went on a three-year hiatus before returning in 2015 on Reshet. The show is hosted by actor and singer Guy Zu-Aretz.
3 middle aged men in constant conflict with life about their wives, friends, children and everyday situations.
Shani and her husband Shai visit her Sephardic family, then his Ashkenazi brood, for regular weekend meals that reveal both clans' quirks and foibles.
Cadets from every level of Israeli society undergo intense training to join their country's elite, highly classified intelligence service, the Mossad. The series revolves around a secret Mossad compound called 'HaMidrasha', which is surrounded by surveillance cameras and is equipped with technological devices. The compound operates a training course in which 13 trainees are sent to complicated missions in order to test their suitability for the occupation, and their improvisation, seduction and impersonation abilities. Yonna, the commander of the course, criticizes the mediocrity of Mossad's agents and demands from the new trainees a higher level of execution. He decides to create a new training program to test his trainees via unusual and radical situations, in which, apart from excellence, Yonna demands a creative "out of the box" thinking.
MasterChef Israel is a reality cooking competition show that first debuted on 14 October 2010 on Channel 2. It is based on the British reality cooking competition show of the same name. The show was very well received and highly acclaimed, achieving excellent reviews and high ratings.
The series focused on stories of high school students in Tel Aviv, and talked about issues of adolescents such as school, adolescence, love, drafting to the army, social gaps, rape, violence and more. The series would focus in each episode on various secondary characters and show their world and their problems, in addition to the central plot which evolved around the main characters.
Kokhav Nolad is an Israeli reality television show searching for talented new vocalists based on the British Pop Idol model. Since its debut on Israeli Channel 2 in 2003, Kokhav Nolad has achieved great popularity and turned out many new musical stars. The show is hosted by Zvika Hadar.
The Israeli version of the popular British TV show Strictly Come Dancing. The show features local celebrities partnered with professional ballroom dancers, competing to be the most successful dancers in the contest. Each week the couple that gains the least votes from the show's judges and spectators is eliminated. Viewers vote for their favorites, in order to save them from elimination, via phone, SMS and online. Over 350,000 votes were cast on the show's 3rd season finale.
HaAh HaGadol is the Israeli version of Big Brother reality-television series, hosted by Erez Tal and Korin Gideon, formerly by Assi Azar.
The Race to the Million is a reality game show set in Israel and is based on the American series The Amazing Race. It features eleven teams of two with pre-existing relationships, who will vie for the substantial cash prize in a race around the world.