Lucy Ayoub

Lucy Ayoub was born in 1992 in Haifa

Ayoub was born in Haifa on 21 June 1992 to an Arab Christian father and a Jewish mother who converted to Christianity before their marriage. Her maternal grandparents were Holocaust survivors. Her paternal grandmother came from a Palestinian refugee family that fled to Lebanon in 1948, but she stayed in Haifa and was adopted by a woman named Lucy Khayat.

She attended a Catholic Carmelite school in Haifa and wrote stories and poems in Arabic and Hebrew. She served in the IDF as a flight simulator instructor in the Air Force. In 2016 she began studying philosophy, politics and economics at Tel Aviv University.

She drew public attention in 2016 with her poems at the Poetry Slam Israel competition and joined the public broadcaster Kan that year. From 2017 she hosted a weekly radio culture show and the TV program Culture Club on Kan 11. As Israel's jury spokesperson at Eurovision 2018 she spoke Arabic on air, which drew a protest from Culture Minister Miri Regev.

In 2019 she co-hosted Eurovision in Tel Aviv, and in 2020 she co-hosted a nightly talk show with Guri Alfi. In November 2021 she left Kan for Keshet, and from 2022 she hosted Dancing with the Stars. She acted in the fourth season of Fauda as an Arab Israeli police officer married to a Jew.

In August 2021 she married Etay Bar, and the couple have 2 daughters.