She’s barely 36 years old, but television news anchor Yonit Levi has
already interviewed both President George W. Bush and President Barack
Obama, covered the September 11 attacks in New York City, the space
shuttle Columbia tragedy and the Second Lebanon War.
The senior anchor
of Israel’s leading evening news broadcast on Channel 2, Levi earned her
stripes at an early age. She vaulted to the co-anchor position at 25,
after the first female co-anchor, Miki Haimovich, jumped ship to a rival
TV channel. She went solo a few years later when her male counterpart
also stepped down.
Famous for her beauty and cool “ice queen” demeanor,
Levi has been known to wow Israelis with her linguistic skills – not
only interviewing world leaders in unaccented English, but also
conversing on air with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in fluent
Italian.
Offscreen she’s half of a media “power couple,” following her
2011 marriage to writer and comedian Ido Rosenblum.
By: Allison Kaplan Sommer
