Michaela Bercu

Michaela Bercu was born in 1967 in Tel Aviv

Bercu was born in Tel Aviv, the only child of parents who came to Israel from Romania. Her father Armand was from Bucharest and her mother Yehudit from Timișoara. She grew up speaking Hebrew, Romanian and Hungarian.

She began modeling at 14, when her mother took her to photographer Menachem Oz. She later signed with a modeling agency and built an international career.

A Peter Lindbergh photo of her in jeans was Anna Wintour's first cover as editor of American Vogue, in November 1988. She was the first Israeli woman on that cover and later appeared on many other magazine covers. In 1992 she played one of Dracula's brides in Bram Stoker's Dracula.

In Israel she co-hosted the 1995 Eurovision preselection with Aki Avni and presented the show Bla-Bla from 1996 to 1998. She stepped back from modeling in 1996 after marrying and returned in 1999.

She earned a master's degree in drama therapy and worked with children in Tel Aviv schools. She is married to businessman Ron Zuckerman, and they have 4 children. Since 2020 she has volunteered as a paramedic with Magen David Adom.