Sivan Rahav-Meir

Sivan Rahav-Meir (Hebrew: סיון רהב מאיר; born July 2, 1981) is an Israeli journalist,[1] news reporter, and TV and radio anchor.[1]

Sivan Rahav-Meir

Biography

Sivan Rahav was born in Ramat Hasharon to Aryeh and Ronit. When she was six, the family moved to Herzliya and she began writing in the children's magazines "Chupar" and "Pashosh". Identified as a gifted child at age eight, she studied at the School for Gifted Children – Shmuel HaNagid in Herzliya and then in the Ramot program for gifted children at the Rothberg High School. Rahav-Meir served in the Galei Zahal army radio as the correspondent for welfare and absorption, legal affairs and religious affairs. Rahav was brought up secular, and became Orthodox as a teenager.[2]

In 2003, she married Yedidya Meir, a columnist and radio presenter.[1] Rahav-Meir lives in Jerusalem with her husband and five children.[1]

Journalism and media career

Rahav-Meir was a presenter on Israeli Educational Television, including the children's programs "Banana Boom", co-presented with Michael HaNegbi, "Zoombit", a computer affairs program as well as a youth reporter for the "Kulanu" and "Rosh #1" magazines. She interviewed Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres,[1] and took part in the Dan Shilon Live program and in Dudu Topaz's entertainment show.

Sivan Rahav (left) aged 14, with Yitzhak Rabin on the Dan Shilon Live program, September 1995

From 2009, she presents a weekly radio program on Galei Zahal with her husband Yedidya on Fridays at noon. [3]

Rahav-Meir with Yedioth Books authors, The Hebrew Book Week fair at the Jerusalem Station compound, 2017
Back line: Dov Eichenwald, Sivan Rahav-Meir, Dr. Asael Lubotzky, Yehoram Gaon

Awards and recognition

In 2017, Rahav - Meir was chosen by Globes magazine as the most popular female media personality in Israel,[4] and by the Liberal magazine as one of the 50 most influential people in Israel.[5] In 2019, Rahav-Meir was appointed the World Mizrachi Shlicha to North America, where she lectured in various Jewish communities.[6]

See also

References
  1. Steinberg, Jessica. "From scrolling to scrolls, Sivan Rahav-Meir melds journalism and Torah", The Times of Israel, January 22, 2018.
  2. Halpern, Gilad (23 March 2020). "Well-Behaved Orthodox Journalists Seldom Make History". TLV1. TLV1. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  3. Sivan Rahav-Meir's website
  4. Kipa website
  5. The Liberal website
  6. "Sivan Rahav Meir to take on America".
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