Nava Boker

Nava Boker was born in 1970 in Israel

Nava Boker was born on 15 November 1970 and grew up in Pardes Hanna-Karkur. Her parents were Jewish immigrants from Yemen. She earned a bachelor's degree in social sciences and humanities at Beit Berl and the Open University.

She worked for many years as a reporter for Yedioth Hadera and Ma'ariv. Later she covered welfare for Israel's First Channel and also worked as a media adviser and lecturer.

She married Hadera police chief Lior Boker, who was killed in the Mount Carmel forest fire in 2010. In 2012 she founded the Lior Boker Foundation to improve fire and rescue services and chaired its board.

In 2015 she won the 25th place on the Likud list and entered the Knesset. In June 2016 she was chosen as a deputy speaker of the Knesset. She lost her seat in the April 2019 elections.

In 2020 she took part in the VIP season of Survivor. She heads Yad Ezer LaHaver, a group that supports Holocaust survivors. In February 2022 she said she would not return to politics.