Tamar Ziskind

Tamar Ziskind was born in 1985 in Haifa

Tamar Ziskind was born on February 23, 1985, in Haifa, where she grew up and went to school. Her mother Genia holds a doctorate in biology, and her father Avi is an accountant. She is the middle child and has 2 siblings.

As a teenager she studied in the chemistry and biology track at the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa. She later studied dentistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

She served in the Israeli Navy as a personnel coordinator.

In March 2008 she won the title of Israel's beauty queen at a pageant held in Haifa. That same year she posed for the swimsuit issue of Blazer magazine.

In July 2009 her mother was arrested in Romania on suspicion of involvement in illegal fertility treatments using donated eggs. The next month Ziskind joined a protest outside the Romanian embassy in Israel calling for the release of those detained. In June 2014 she married Udi Aspis.