Nitzan Shapira

Nitzan Shapira was born in 1996 in Hoshaya

Nitzan Shapira was born on March 24, 1996, and grew up in Hoshaya in the Jezreel Valley. He studied at the Netiv Hoshaya elementary school and at the Hispin yeshiva high school. He then spent a year at a pre-army preparatory program.

He joined the IDF in March 2016 and served as a fighter and commander in the Egoz Unit of the Commando Brigade. He was discharged in 2019. As a reservist in the Alpinist Unit, he was wounded in October 2024 during the ground operation in southern Lebanon.

He started in the news company archive, then worked as a researcher and a general reporter for N12. In March 2022 he reported on how Ukrainian refugees were held at Ben Gurion Airport, and the interior minister then changed the procedure. In June 2022 he became the southern correspondent of Channel 12 News.

On October 7 he broadcast from Sderot, and he covered the Swords of Iron war in the south, Gaza and Lebanon. In January 2025 he joined the military team of the news company as a military correspondent. He holds a bachelor's degree in politics and communication from Hadassah College, is married to Rinat, has a daughter and lives in Beit HaKerem in Jerusalem.