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Yair Cherki

Yair Cherki is an Israeli journalist who reports on religious and political affairs and hosts current affairs programs on Channel 12 and Army Radio.

born 1993Reporting on religious affairsCoverage of Haredi societyHosting Avri and Cherki

Born: 5 February 1993, Jerusalem
Occupation: journalist
Education: Yeshivat Makor Chaim

Yair Cherki was born in 1993 in Jerusalem

Cherki was born in 1993 and grew up in the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood of Jerusalem, in a National Religious family. He is the fourth of 7 children of Rabbi Oury Cherki and Ronit, a biology researcher. His brother Shalom Yochai was killed in a terror attack in 2015.

He studied at Yeshivat Makor Chaim in Gush Etzion. He later studied for a law degree at Ono Academic College.

He enlisted in the IDF in 2011 and served at Army Radio as its religious affairs correspondent. He was discharged in July 2014.

In 2014 he joined Channel 2 news as religious affairs correspondent. He wrote a weekly column for B'Sheva from 2017 and moved to Makor Rishon in 2020. His reports included the series Brooklyn of the Holy on Haredi Jews in the United States, which won a B'nai B'rith award in 2018.

In November 2023 he began hosting a late-night show on Channel 12, later named Avri and Cherki. In July 2024 he returned to Army Radio with a weekly program. In February 2023 he came out as gay.