Yonit Levi (; born 12 July 1977) is an Israeli

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, and

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Biography

Yonit Levi was born in the French Hill

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, to an

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family. Her father, Yoram, was born in the

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, and her mother, Neomi, was born in

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. She lived with her parents in

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for a few years, where she attended

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. In October 2011, Levi married screenwriter and television host

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in their apartment

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. Their son was born in November 2013, followed by a daughter in December 2015, and a second daughter in May 2018. The family resides in Tel Aviv.

Media career

Levi is the chief news anchor of the flagship bulletin on

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. After finishing her army service as foreign news editor for the

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(Galei Tzahal, IDF Radio), Levi joined Israel Television News Company in 1998. In 2002, the former anchors

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and

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moved to Channel 10, and at age 25, Levi was chosen as the anchor of Channel 2's prime time news program. A few years later, when her co-anchor resigned, she became the first woman in Israel to be appointed the sole anchor position of a prime-time newscast on a commercial channel. She has also served as the channel's field reporter for such international stories as the Japan tsunami disaster, the U.S. elections and wars in Gaza. Under Levi, the prime time news on Channel 2 remained the most watched Israeli daily program. In January 2008, Levi conducted an interview with U.S. President

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at the

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. In July 2010, Levi interviewed U.S. President

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at the

. In 2015, Levi gave a rare interview to American journalist

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, expressing personal opinions on Israeli current events. Since December 2021 Levi has been a cohost of the podcast “Unholy: Two Jews on the News” with

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journalist

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. In 2022, Levi conducted an interview with U.S. President

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at the White House.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Levi, Yonit 1977 births Living people Israeli television personalities Israeli television presenters Israeli women journalists Israeli Ashkenazi Jews Mass media people from Jerusalem Israeli people of Romanian-Jewish descent Israeli television news anchors Israeli women television presenters

Biography

Media career

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