Maya Wertheimer

Maya Wertheimer was born in 1990 in Kfar Vradim

Maya Wertheimer was born on 29 July 1990 in Kfar Vradim, where she grew up. Her father was businessman Eitan Wertheimer, son of industrialist and former Knesset member Stef Wertheimer, and her mother is Ariela. Singer Sivan Talmore is her half-sister.

She studied theater at Maagan Michael High School and joined the theater circle of Orna Porat. She did her military service in the IDF theater and later studied at the Nissan Nativ Acting Studio. As a teenager she was hurt in a hit-and-run accident and used a wheelchair for several months.

She played Hadas in the youth series Alifim from 2011 to 2012. In 2017 she began playing Devorah Brown in Shababnikim and appeared in Dan Wolman's film An Israeli Love Story. Later roles include Morobot, Pagum, Malach Mashchit and HaShagrirut.

Since 2018 she has hosted the interview show Timeline, and she later hosted Ahava Hadasha and Password. In March 2023 she hosted the event that revealed Israel's Eurovision 2023 song. She also holds a yoga teaching certificate.

In May 2017 she married Asaf Zamir, a former Minister of Tourism and Consul General in New York. The couple have a daughter and a son and live in Neve Tzedek in Tel Aviv.