Yonit Levi

Yonit Levi (Hebrew: יונית לוי‎; born 12 July 1977) is an Israeli news anchor, television presenter and journalist. Levi is known as the main and the most senior news reporter in Israel. Levi known as: “Ice Princess”, “The National News Anchor”, and “Mrs. Ice And News”.

Yonit Levi

Early life

Levi was born in the French Hill neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel to an Ashkenazi Jewish family. Her father, Yoram, was born in the USSR, whereas her mother, Neomi, in Romania. She lived with her parents in Chicago for a few years, where she attended Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School.

Media career

Yonit Levi is currently the chief news anchor of the flagship bulletin on Keshet 12 and formerly Reshet 13 (in addition and not instead) produced by Israel Television News Company (whose bulletins were broadcast on Channel 2 until October 2017). After finishing her army service as foreign news editor for the Army Radio (Galei Tzahal, IDF Radio), Levi joined Israel Television News Company in 1998. In 2002, the former anchors Ya'akov Eilon and Miki Haimovich moved to Channel 10, and at age 25, Levi was chosen as the anchor of Channel 2's prime time news program.[1] 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 George W. Bush at the White House.[2] In July 2010, Levi interviewed U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House.[3][4]

In 2015, Levi gave a rare interview to American journalist Charlie Rose of PBS, expressing personal opinions on Israeli current events.[5]

In September 2018, while she was supposed to be engaging in a sit-down conversation on the "perils and positives of the internet and social media" with Monica Lewinsky, Yonit decided to catch her off-guard by asking a question relating to her affair with Bill Clinton. A shocked Monica, who had previously publicly declared she emotionally suffers from PTSD due the humiliation of being "publicly outed and ostracised" for the affair, walked off the stage distressed. [6]

Personal life

In October 2011, she married Ido Rosenblum, an Israeli screenwriter, director and actor. The wedding was in Tel Aviv. Their first child was born on November 2013 at Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba. Their second child was born in December 2015. In 2018, they had another child.

See also
  • Israel Television News Company
  • Women in journalism and media professions

References
  1. Hello Yonit Levy
  2. "January 6, 2008 Interview of the President by Yonit Levi, Channel 2 News". The White House Archives (https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov). Retrieved 24 June 2010.
  3. "Interview of the President by Yonit Levi, Israeli TV (Transcript)". The White House. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
  4. "Interview of the President by Yonit Levi of Israeli TV (Video)". The White House. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
  5. "Yonit Levi - Charlie Rose". Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  6. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45407558
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