Nava Boker
Nava Boker | |
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| Faction represented in the Knesset | |
| 2015–2019 | Likud |
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| Born | 15 November 1970 Israel |
Nava Prehi-Boker (Hebrew: נאוה פרחי-בוקר, born 15 November 1970) is an Israeli journalist and politician.
Biography
[edit]Nava Boker was born and raised in Pardes Hanna-Karkur. Her parents were Jewish immigrants from Yemen. A journalist by profession, Boker worked for both Yedioth Ahronoth and Ma'ariv, as well as Channel 1. She married and had two daughters, then divorced. At age 27, as a reporter, she met Hadera police chief Lior Boker, and married him. Due to difficulties with obtaining a marriage certificate from the Israeli rabbinate, she married Boker in what she described as an "alternative marriage."[1] In 2010 Lior was killed in the Mount Carmel forest fire.[2] She subsequently established a foundation to support fire and rescue workers.[3]
Prior to the 2015 Knesset elections she was placed 25th on the Likud list,[4] and was elected to the Knesset as Likud won 30 seats.[5] She lost her seat in the April 2019 elections. She subsequently participated in the 2020 VIP season of Survivor.
Boker lives in Hadera and has two daughters.
References
[edit]- ^ Nava Boker (Likud): "I married in an alternative marriage", Ksenia Svetlova (Zionist Camp): "I was refused a divorce for two years", Ruth Calderon (Yesh Atid): "I demanded an equal divorce" Al Mishmar HaKnesset, 19 February 2015
- ^ Just Who are the Likud Candidates Who Surprisingly Made it in? Israel National News, 18 March 2015
- ^ Widow of Carmel fire victim to run in Likud primaries Israel HaYom, 18 December 2014
- ^ Likud list Central Elections Committee
- ^ Final Unofficial* results of the Elections for the Twentieth Knesset Central Elections Committee
External links
[edit]- Nava Boker on the Knesset website
- 1970 births
- Living people
- Israeli journalists
- Women members of the Knesset
- Jewish Israeli politicians
- Likud politicians
- Members of the 20th Knesset (2015–2019)
- Channel 1 (Israel) people
- 21st-century Israeli women politicians
- Israeli people of Yemeni-Jewish descent
- Deputy speakers of the Knesset
- Survivor (Israeli TV series) contestants