Itay Vered

Itay Vered was born in 1972 in Kfar Hess

Itay Vered was born in 1972 in Kfar Hess. He is the brother of food journalist Ronit Vered. He served as an officer in the Combat Engineering Corps and earned a bachelor's degree in political science and Middle East history from Tel Aviv University.

He began as a researcher on the Telad program HaMashkifim and then on Uvda from 2002 to 2005. In 2005 he wrote the script and research for Ayelet Heller's documentary Red Fields, which won a prize at the Jerusalem Film Festival.

From 2005 to 2015 he was a reporter and presenter on Channel 1. He was the first Israeli journalist to cover the 2011 revolution in Egypt, and he reported on the tsunami in Japan and the earthquake in Nepal. He also presented the science show HaMaabada and the travel show Al HaDerech.

He joined Channel 10 News in 2015 as a reporter for the program Shishi and made the series Tsunami on a refugee rescue ship. He moved to Channel 13 in 2019 and was let go in 2020 due to budget cuts.

He directed and filmed a documentary about an Israeli field hospital in Ukraine, then studied nursing at Sheba Medical Center. In late 2025 he began working as a nurse there. He is married to Naomi and has 3 children.