Short answer: you cannot sign up for Showtime on its own, in Israel or anywhere else. The separate Showtime app closed on 30 April 2024 and the programmes moved into Paramount+, which does not operate here. Israel is not on Paramount+’s “Paramount+ Regions” page, and on 9 October 2026 the Israeli App Store had neither of the two Paramount+ apps.
Some Showtime series still reach Israeli screens through local licences. The TV company yes put season one of Dexter: Resurrection on yes VOD from July 2025, and Israeli press lists season two there from Saturday 31 October 2026, a day after Paramount’s premiere date. The October 2026 lists for HOT and Cellcom TV, as Gadgety printed them, had no Dexter title.
For the U.S. Paramount+ itself, whose Premium plan Paramount+ describes as holding “all of SHOWTIME®”, the first check takes about ten minutes. On a laptop, connect USip’s residential U.S. IP, open paramountplus.com in a private window, sign in with the Paramount+ account you already use and play one Showtime episode for a minute. Paramount+ then decides whether to accept the connection.
Israel has no Paramount+, but it is not empty-handed: yes has been licensing Paramount series for its customers since 2024. Here is what we could trace on 9 October 2026, with the date of each source.
| Name | In Israel | Compared with Paramount+ in the U.S. |
|---|---|---|
| Dexter: Resurrection, season 1 | On yes VOD from Saturday 12 July 2025, in Gadgety’s list of yes premieres; Time Out Tel Aviv said it arrived alongside the U.S. broadcast | The same series that Paramount+ lists on its Showtime page |
| Dexter: Resurrection, season 2 | Listed for yes VOD on Saturdays from 31 October 2026 (Gadgety, 28 September 2026) | Paramount’s announced premiere is Friday 30 October 2026 |
| Paramount series on yes | Licensing deals reported in December 2023 and August 2025, each covering named series for the year ahead | A selection under licence, not the Paramount+ service with its whole Showtime library |
| HBO Max | Launched in Israel on 13 January 2026, with yes and HOT as partners (Kan News) | Owned by Skydance since 6 October 2026, as Paramount+ is, but a separate service and catalogue |
| HOT and Cellcom TV | No Dexter title in their October 2026 lists (Gadgety, 27 September 2026) | We could not confirm other Showtime series on either; check the guide on your own box |
| Paramount+ | Not on its regions page, and neither app in the Israeli App Store (9 October 2026) | Premium is described as carrying “all of SHOWTIME®” |
Dexter is the clearest case, and not a new one. ICE reported in December 2024 that the prequel, Dexter: Original Sin, would be shown only on yes, and both seasons of Dexter: Resurrection have been listed there since. If the series you want is one that yes has licensed, its VOD library is the simplest route: Israeli hours, a local account and no address question at all.
The limits are just as clear. What yes acquires is a selection of named series, not Paramount+, and the deal reports we read did not mention Showtime by name. The line-up changes as licences start and end, and anything outside the selection is a question for the U.S. Paramount+, or for the search box of the other apps you use.
A snapshot from 9 October 2026, built from press listings: we could not open a yes page for Dexter: Resurrection, so check yes’s own guide for days and times. For Partner TV we found nothing to report either way. Finding no Showtime title on a service is not proof that none is there.
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If you last looked at Showtime a few years ago, three things have changed. Each is dated below, with its source.
SHOWTIME Help announced that “The SHOWTIME streaming service is being discontinued”; subscribers kept it “until they are discontinued on April 30, 2024”. Its line since then: “SHOWTIME programming is now available through Paramount+”.
TheWrap reported that the plan which was called Paramount+ with Showtime became Paramount+ Premium. The longer name lives on only for the cable and satellite channel.
Paramount completed its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, and the combined company is named Skydance (Forbes). It owns Paramount+, HBO Max, Pluto TV and the Showtime channel. No date has been given for any combined service.
Inside Paramount+, Showtime comes in two depths. Premium is described as hit originals, movies and “all of SHOWTIME®” without ads, with live CBS and downloads besides. Essential lists “Access SHOWTIME® Originals”, under a footnote that says “Series may not include all episodes”. For a viewer in Israel the practical point is simple: yes may already show the one Showtime series you care about, while Premium is the only plan Paramount+ describes as holding the lot.
Paramount+ offers no Israeli edition, and USip does not change that. What USip supplies is the residential U.S. IP connection; the account, the plan and every programme stay with Paramount+.
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For most of the year Israel is seven hours ahead of New York and ten ahead of Los Angeles. The two countries change their clocks on different dates, so twice in this period the gap shrinks by an hour for a week or two.
| U.S. time | Israel, most of the year | Israel, 25 October to 1 November 2026 and 14 to 26 March 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| 8 p.m. Eastern | 3 a.m. the next day | 2 a.m. the next day |
| 10 p.m. Eastern | 5 a.m. the next day | 4 a.m. the next day |
| Midnight Eastern | 7 a.m. | 6 a.m. |
| 3 a.m. Eastern | 10 a.m. | 9 a.m. |
| 6 p.m. Pacific | 4 a.m. the next day | 3 a.m. the next day |
| 9 p.m. Pacific | 7 a.m. the next day | 6 a.m. the next day |
The four changes, in Israeli time: on Sunday 25 October 2026 Israel goes back to winter time at 2 a.m.; on Sunday 1 November the U.S. follows, at 8 a.m. Israeli time for New York and 11 a.m. for Los Angeles; on Sunday 14 March 2027 the U.S. moves forward, at 9 a.m. and noon Israeli time; and on Friday 26 March 2027 Israel moves forward at 2 a.m.
Season two of Dexter: Resurrection lands in the first of those odd weeks. Paramount has announced Friday 30 October 2026, and yes’s VOD listing, as Gadgety printed it, starts on Saturday 31 October. We have not seen a release hour for either, so do not plan around a time quoted without a source.
A programme at 8 p.m. in New York is on at 3 a.m. here. That hour only matters for live television.
Premium also lists live CBS. If that is part of the appeal, expect its evening programmes to air while Israel sleeps; American mornings fall in your afternoon.
Israel returns to winter time a week before the U.S. does. For those days New York is six hours behind, not seven.
The U.S. leaves summer time and the usual seven-hour gap comes back, at 8 a.m. Israeli time for New York.
This time the U.S. moves first and Israel follows on Friday 26 March. In between, the gap is six hours again.
Once a Showtime episode is in the Paramount+ library, it starts whenever you press play — on a Friday afternoon as easily as at 3 a.m.
Times computed with Python’s zoneinfo module and version 2026c of the IANA time-zone database (Asia/Jerusalem, America/New_York, America/Los_Angeles). They convert clock times only; they are not a Paramount+ or yes schedule.
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Whichever company runs your line, your devices go online with an Israeli public address, and that address is where a streaming service starts when it works out your location. A faster package improves the picture; it never changes the country.
| How you connect | The official picture | What Paramount+ sees |
|---|---|---|
| Fibre to the home | About 2.9 million homes can get Bezeq fibre, about 2.4 million IBC fibre and about 1.1 million Partner fibre, according to a Ministry of Communications opinion dated 23 February 2026 | An Israeli address |
| Home internet contracts | The same document’s market-share table, as of 31 December 2025, names Bezeq, HOT, Partner and Cellcom; the public copy blanks out the shares | An Israeli address, whichever of them you are with |
| Mobile data and hotspots | Three mobile networks, the State Comptroller reported in July 2024: Pelephone’s own, PHI (shared by Partner and HOT Mobile) and CMG (shared by Cellcom and Wecom Mobile) | An Israeli address, often with an IPv6 one beside it |
| Office, campus or hotel Wi-Fi | The employer, university or hotel | An Israeli address, behind rules that can stop OpenVPN Connect |
| Any of these, with USip connected | USip, running over your existing line | One U.S. household address, which Paramount+ can still refuse |
The same State Comptroller report puts 88% of mobile customers with the five network companies in December 2022, and 12% with virtual operators — the newest official split we found. Every row but the last hands Paramount+ an Israeli address, whatever the speed or the brand.
Two practical points follow. First, many lines give a device an IPv6 address as well as an IPv4 one, and a browser may use either. If your U.S. connection covers only IPv4, the IPv6 route still leads back to Bezeq, HOT, Partner or Cellcom, which is why the check reads both lines. Second, a workplace or campus network can stop the USip connection before Paramount+ sees anything. If the check fails there, repeat it once on mobile data or your home line before drawing conclusions.
Fibre figures count homes each network can reach, not homes that use it. The Ministry document is a redacted public version; the State Comptroller’s customer split is for December 2022.
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Getting an address checker to show a U.S. flag takes a minute. What a streaming service makes of the address behind the flag is another matter, so here are the usual routes side by side.
| Route | What reaches Paramount+ | The drawback | Best kept for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Your Israeli line | An Israeli address from your own provider | Paramount+ lists no Israeli service | yes, HOT, Cellcom TV, Partner TV and the broadcasters’ own apps |
| Free VPN apps | A handful of server addresses that thousands of users share | Overloaded at peak times, and exactly the kind of traffic streaming services look out for | Nothing in this guide |
| Commercial data-centre VPN | An address belonging to a hosting company’s server range | A U.S. location on paper, a server farm in fact | Encrypting traffic on public Wi-Fi |
| USip’s residential U.S. IP | One consumer address from a U.S. internet provider’s home network | Only the network side changes: Paramount+ can refuse any connection, USip’s included | A consistent U.S. address for the ten-minute check |
An episode that plays in a clean private window means the connection side is settled.
If Paramount+ refuses, write down its wording, reconnect once, try once more and then contact USip support.
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The check runs in a browser on purpose: no app store and no TV menus, just the address, the account you already have and Paramount+’s answer.
Install OpenVPN Connect with the Windows guide or the Mac guide and connect. On any IP address checker the IPv4 result has to be in the U.S. If an IPv6 result appears, it must not belong to Bezeq, HOT, Partner, Cellcom or another Israeli provider; if it does, your Israeli line is still showing.
Close other Paramount+ tabs, open a private window, go to paramountplus.com and sign in with your existing Paramount+ account. A clean window means Paramount+ judges this connection on its own, without cookies left by an earlier visit.
In the Showtime section, play an episode — Dexter: Resurrection is listed there — for a full minute. Then look at the plan on the account: Premium is the one described as having “all of SHOWTIME®”, and Essential’s Showtime originals carry the footnote “Series may not include all episodes”.
A minute of playback means the connection did its job on that laptop, that day. A message about location, a VPN or a proxy means Paramount+ said no: copy the wording exactly, reconnect USip once and try one more time. If the message repeats, send that wording to USip support.
USip keeps a dated record of its own checks on another page: USip’s published checks. Those entries come from other days and other places; for a laptop in Israel, the four steps above are your evidence.
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Computers and phones connect through the OpenVPN Connect app; televisions use Smart DNS. USip filmed the four videos below in September 2021, back when Showtime had an app and a website of its own. Follow them for the USip connection, then open Paramount+ where the videos open Showtime.
The video connects USip on Windows and then opens Showtime as it worked in 2021. That service has closed, so after the connection steps go to paramountplus.com in Chrome, Edge or Firefox, in a private window.
If the laptop belongs to your employer and already runs a company VPN, use another computer: with two tunnels running, a refusal tells you nothing.
Step by step: the Windows setup guide.
The Mac video dates from September 2021 too, and the Showtime screens in it are history. Use its connection steps, then open paramountplus.com. Turn off iCloud Private Relay first, or Safari may send traffic around the connection, and if your fibre line also assigns an IPv6 address, read both results on the checker.
Step by step: the Mac setup guide.
The Android video changes the Google Play country to get the Showtime app. The app has gone — it closed on 30 April 2024 — and the switch no longer works as shown: Google Play Help says “To set up a new country or region, you must be in that location”, and that you “must wait at least 90 days” before changing again.
Use Chrome on the phone instead: connect OpenVPN Connect, check the address, open paramountplus.com. Exempt OpenVPN Connect from battery saving, or Android may close it in the middle of an episode.
Step by step: the Android setup guide.
The iPhone video opens the Showtime app, closed since 30 April 2024. The Israeli App Store listed neither Paramount+ app on 9 October 2026, and changing an Apple Account’s country or region comes with conditions Apple publishes on its own support page. Read them before copying anything from the video.
For the check itself, use Safari with OpenVPN Connect on and iCloud Private Relay off.
Step by step: the iOS setup guide.
Televisions, streaming sticks and consoles cannot run OpenVPN Connect, so USip uses Smart DNS for them. First register your home’s public IP address with USip; then put the DNS details into the TV’s network settings, or into the router once for the whole household. If your provider later gives you a different public address, register that one as well. The Smart DNS guide has the steps.
A Paramount+ app on a television comes from the TV maker’s own store, and we have not checked what those stores offer in Israel. Get a laptop result before you touch the television.
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One residential U.S. IP — an ordinary consumer address on a U.S. ISP, not a server range. USip and Paramount+ are separate services: the plans include the connection only — not a Paramount+ subscription, an app-store region or the rights to any title.
Separate services: these prices are for the USip residential U.S. IP service only. Showtime streams inside Paramount+, a separate service; a Paramount+ subscription and access to any particular series or film are not part of a USip plan.
Your phone’s app store shows the catalogue for your account’s country, whatever connection you are on. That is the main reason this guide starts in a browser.
On 9 October 2026 Apple listed the U.S. Paramount+ app (id530168168) only in the U.S. store and the international one (id1340650234) in the UK, Ireland and Australia. The Israeli storefront had neither.
Apple publishes the conditions for changing an Apple Account’s country or region. Read them before changing anything; the move affects subscriptions and other content tied to that account.
Google Play Help says a new Play country can only be set while you are in it, with at least 90 days between changes. We could not check Google Play country by country, so we claim nothing either way.
paramountplus.com runs in Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari. On a laptop, OpenVPN Connect is the only thing to install.
It closed on 30 April 2024. Old videos and forum posts that mention it describe a service that no longer exists.
We have not checked what Samsung, LG or other TV stores list in Israel. Televisions also need Smart DNS rather than OpenVPN Connect.
Laptop browser first, phone browser second, and the question of apps last — only if you still need it once a browser has played an episode.
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People ask about the law first. Here is what Israeli official sources let us say, and where our knowledge ends.
We found no Israeli statute or regulator page that prohibits VPN software in itself. That describes our search, not a legal opinion.
On 28 February 2026 the Israel National Cyber Directorate issued an urgent alert asking organisations to secure the remote-access equipment on their networks, VPN equipment among it. It is advice about protecting networks and says nothing about watching television.
An employer, university or hotel can forbid tunnels on its own network. On someone else’s Wi-Fi, their rules apply first.
Nothing here is legal advice, and rules change. If the question matters for your work or your situation, ask someone qualified in Israeli law.
What we can say plainly is that Paramount+ decides which connections it accepts and can refuse any of them, USip’s included. Nothing on this page should be read as Paramount+ approving of USip, or as a promise that an episode will play.
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Answers drawn from Paramount’s and SHOWTIME Help’s own pages, Israeli press and official Israeli documents, Apple and Google. Where an answer depends on something outside our control, we say what.
Not as a service of its own. The Showtime app closed on 30 April 2024, and its programmes now stream inside Paramount+, which does not list Israel among its regions and had no app in the Israeli App Store on 9 October 2026. Some Showtime series are licensed locally instead: Dexter: Resurrection went to yes, and season two is listed there from 31 October 2026. For the full catalogue, the route is the U.S. Paramount+ over a U.S. connection, which Paramount+ can refuse.
No. Its “Paramount+ Regions” page, read on 9 October 2026, lists 28 countries across Europe, the Americas and Australia, and Israel is not one of them. Neither Paramount+ app was in the Israeli App Store that day. Paramount series reach Israel through licensing deals instead — Israeli press reported yes deals in December 2023 and August 2025 — but that is not the Paramount+ service.
On yes. Gadgety’s list of yes premieres put season one on yes VOD from Saturday 12 July 2025, and its October 2026 list has season two on yes VOD on Saturdays from 31 October 2026, the day after Paramount’s announced premiere. We could not open a yes page for the series, so check yes’s own guide for times. In the U.S., the series is on Paramount+’s Showtime page.
It was shut down. SHOWTIME Help said “The SHOWTIME streaming service is being discontinued”, with access lasting “until they are discontinued on April 30, 2024”, and pointed viewers to Paramount+. USip’s videos on this page date from September 2021 and still show that app. Their connection steps are the same today, but the place to open afterwards is paramountplus.com.
Premium includes all of it; Essential includes some. Paramount+ describes Premium as hit originals, movies and “all of SHOWTIME®” ad free, plus live CBS and downloads, while Essential lists “Access SHOWTIME® Originals” with the footnote “Series may not include all episodes”. The plan was called Paramount+ with Showtime until TheWrap reported its renaming on 23 June 2025. USip has no influence over which plan an account has.
Nothing announced says so. HBO Max launched in Israel on 13 January 2026 with yes and HOT as partners, and since 6 October 2026 it has belonged to Skydance, the same company as Paramount+. The two remain separate services, and no date has been given for any combined one. We have not checked HBO Max’s Israeli catalogue title by title, so search it for a specific show if you use it.
No. USip provides one residential U.S. IP connection, and that is all: no Paramount+ account, no plan, no app-store country and no rights to any programme. Paramount+ is another company’s service; it decides which connections it accepts and can refuse any of them, USip’s included. For Paramount+ more broadly, see USip’s Paramount+ guide.
For the series yes licenses, a yes subscription is the easy answer. For the U.S. Paramount+, a television needs Smart DNS, because it cannot run OpenVPN Connect: you register your home’s public IP address with USip and enter the DNS details on the TV or on the router. We have not checked which Paramount+ app a TV store offers in Israel. Run the laptop check first.
We found no Israeli law that prohibits VPN software in itself, and the Israel National Cyber Directorate writes about VPN equipment as something organisations should keep secure. We are not lawyers, and this is not legal advice. Employers and campuses set their own network rules. Separately, Paramount+ decides which connections it accepts and can refuse any of them.
In the middle of the night. For most of the year 8 p.m. in New York is 3 a.m. in Israel, and 8 p.m. in Los Angeles is 6 a.m. Between 25 October and 1 November 2026, and again from 14 to 26 March 2027, each comes an hour earlier. On-demand episodes ignore all of this: once on Paramount+, they play whenever you choose.
Note the message exactly as it appears; a screenshot is fine. Confirm the address checker still shows a U.S. IPv4 address and no Israeli provider on an IPv6 line, reconnect USip once, and try once more in a new private window. If the same message appears, send the wording to USip support rather than trying again and again. Paramount+ makes the decision, and repeating the attempt will not change it.
No. On 9 October 2026 the Israeli storefront listed neither the U.S. Paramount+ app nor the international one; the U.S. app was in the U.S. store only. App stores follow your account’s country, not your connection, and Apple and Google both set conditions for changing it. Start in a browser at paramountplus.com instead; a laptop needs nothing installed except OpenVPN Connect.
Not to Paramount+. Every Israeli line, fixed or mobile, gives your devices an Israeli public address, and that is what Paramount+ reads first. What matters is that the USip connection carries all your traffic, IPv6 included, so the address checker shows the U.S. on every line. Speed affects picture quality, not location.
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The hub explains Showtime’s move into Paramount+ in full. Each of the other country guides begins from that country’s own TV services, clocks and rules; Singapore and Qatar are the other two outside Europe.
The main pages behind this guide, read on 9 October 2026, apart from the Ministry of Communications and National Cyber Directorate documents, read for USip on 6 October 2026. Israeli sources are in Hebrew; the translations are ours. Also used: Gadgety’s yes list of 25 June 2025, its HOT and Cellcom TV lists of 27 September 2026 and its reports of yes’s Paramount deals (18 December 2023, 13 August 2025); Time Out Tel Aviv, 14 July 2025; ICE, 17 December 2024; the State Comptroller’s July 2024 report on cellular infrastructure; and the IANA time-zone database (version 2026c).
If the Showtime series you want is Dexter: Resurrection, the shortest route in Israel is yes: season two is listed on yes VOD from Saturday 31 October 2026, on Israeli hours and with no address question. Look at your own TV service’s guide before anything else.
For the full U.S. Paramount+ catalogue, the check takes about ten minutes: USip connected on a laptop, both address lines read, a private window, your existing Paramount+ account and one Showtime episode for a minute. If Paramount+ refuses, keep its exact wording, reconnect once, try once more, then send the wording to USip support.
USip supplies the residential U.S. IP connection only. Showtime’s programmes, Paramount+ accounts and plans are Paramount+’s, and Paramount+ alone decides whether to accept a connection: it can refuse any, USip’s included.