Nava Boker

Nava Prehi-Boker (Hebrew: נאוה פרחי-בוקר, born 15 November 1970) is an Israeli journalist and politician.

Nava Boker
Faction represented in the Knesset
2015–2019Likud
Personal details
Born (1970-11-15) 15 November 1970
Israel

Biography

Nava Boker was born and raised in Pardes Hanna-Karkur. Her parents were Jewish immigrants from Yemen. A journalist by profession, Boker worked for both Yedioth Ahronoth and Ma'ariv, as well as Channel 1. She married and had two daughters, then divorced. At age 27, as a reporter, she met Hadera police chief Lior Boker, and married him. Due to difficulties with obtaining a marriage certificate from the Israeli rabbinate, she married Boker in what she described as an "alternative marriage."[1] In 2010 Lior was killed in the Mount Carmel forest fire.[2] She subsequently established a foundation to support fire and rescue workers.[3]

Prior to the 2015 Knesset elections she was placed 25th on the Likud list,[4] and was elected to the Knesset as Likud won 30 seats.[5] She lost her seat in the April 2019 elections. She subsequently participated in the 2020 VIP season of Survivor.

Boker lives in Hadera and has two daughters.

References
  1. Nava Boker (Likud): "I married in an alternative marriage", Ksenia Svetlova (Zionist Camp): "I was refused a divorce for two years", Ruth Calderon (Yesh Atid): "I demanded an equal divorce" Al Mishmar HaKnesset, 19 February 2015
  2. Just Who are the Likud Candidates Who Surprisingly Made it in? Israel National News, 18 March 2015
  3. Widow of Carmel fire victim to run in Likud primaries Israel HaYom, 18 December 2014
  4. Likud list Central Elections Committee
  5. Final Unofficial* results of the Elections for the Twentieth Knesset Central Elections Committee
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