Yonit Levi

Yonit Levi was born in 1977 in Jerusalem

Yonit Levi was born in Jerusalem on 12 July 1977. Her father, Yoram, came from the USSR, and her mother, Neomi, a lecturer at the Hebrew University, came from Romania. As a child she lived with her family in Chicago and Los Angeles, then returned to Jerusalem and lived in French Hill.

She holds a bachelor's degree in history and English literature from the Hebrew University. She also earned a master's degree in English literature from Tel Aviv University.

Levi served at Army Radio, first as a reporter and later as foreign news editor. She joined Channel 2 News in 1998 and was chosen in 2002 to co-anchor its prime time bulletin. After her co-anchor Gadi Sukenik left in 2007, she became the first woman in Israel to be sole anchor of a prime time newscast on a commercial channel.

She has reported from the field on the September 11 attacks, U.S. elections and wars in Gaza. She interviewed U.S. presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and leaders such as Silvio Berlusconi and Emmanuel Macron. Since 2021 she has cohosted the podcast Unholy with Jonathan Freedland.

In 2011 she married screenwriter and television host Ido Rosenblum, and they have a son and two daughters. The family lives in Tel Aviv. In 2025 she published a children's book about antisemitism with Bianna Golodryga.