Sarai Givaty

Sarai Givaty was born in 1982 in Tiberias

Sarai Givaty was born in Tiberias in 1982 to a family of Iraqi and Moroccan Jewish descent. Her parents are Edna and Eliyahu Givaty. In 1999 she took third place in an Israeli beauty contest.

After high school she moved to the United States and studied acting at HB Studios in New York. By her account, she was released from the IDF after a few days because of dust allergies.

Her first TV role came in 2004 in a live comedy sketch on an Israeli late night show. In 2005 she hosted the youth show Exit on Channel 10. In 2006 she played the lead in the film The Passage opposite Stephen Dorff.

She starred in the Israeli series The Pilot Wives, played a Mossad officer in 2 episodes of NCIS in 2010, and appeared in The Expendables 3 in 2014. She also plays piano and guitar, and released her debut EP in 2012.

She married businessman Or Luboschits in 2014, and they live in Tel Aviv with their 2 children. In 2025, remarks she made in a TV interview drew accusations from UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese, which Givaty denied.