Neta Riskin

Neta Riskin was born in 1976 in Tel Aviv

Riskin was born on 28 October 1976 in Tel Aviv and grew up in the north of the city. Her parents were both architects. Her father, Arik Riskin, was a Holocaust survivor born in Lithuania, and her grandfather was the architect Asher Gliberman.

She studied at Ironi Hey high school and later in the film track at Alon high school in Ramat HaSharon. She left high school but later completed her matriculation exams. She did not serve in the IDF.

From 2000 to 2003 she lived in Berlin. After returning to Israel she worked as a reporter for the weekend supplement of Maariv. In 2007 she played the lead in the miniseries Lehotzi Et HaKelev, the role that made her known to a wide audience.

In 2013 she began playing Giti Weiss in Shtisel, and in 2015 she won the Israeli Television Academy Award for the second season. That year she appeared in A Tale of Love and Darkness and coached Natalie Portman in Hebrew. In 2025 she won an Ophir Award for the film Nandauri, in which she speaks Georgian.

Riskin is a left-wing political activist. In June 2025 a social media exchange with activist Yoseph Haddad about the war with Iran drew public controversy.