Lucy Aharish

Lucy Aharish was born in 1981 in Nazareth

Aharish was born in 1981 in Nazareth to a Muslim Arab family, the daughter of Maaruf and Salwa Aharish. She grew up in Dimona, the youngest of three daughters, and was the only Arab student at her school. In 1987 a Palestinian militant threw firebombs at her family's car during a visit to Gaza, and a young cousin with them was badly burned.

She studied theater and social sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She then studied journalism at the Koteret school in Tel Aviv and did an internship in Germany.

In 2007 she began presenting the news on Channel 10, becoming the first Arab to do so on mainstream Israeli television. In 2009 she co-hosted a morning radio show with Emmanuel Rosen and Maya Bengal.

In 2013 she began presenting English news on i24NEWS, and during Operation Protective Edge she criticized Hamas on air for using civilians as human shields. In 2015 she lit a torch at the Independence Day ceremony. In 2020 her new show on Kan 11 ended after a short time, and the network cited schedule changes, while some linked it to a protest she had hosted.

She married actor and musician Tsahi HaLevi in 2018, and their son was born in 2021. Since 2023 she has presented news and current affairs on Reshet 13.