Yonit Levi
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Yonit Levi is an Israeli
Israel
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 television presenter
Presenter
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 and journalist
Journalist
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Biography

Yonit Levi was born in the French Hill
French Hill
French Hill , also Giv'at Shapira is a neighborhood in northeastern Jerusalem. It is located on territory occupied during the Six-Day War in 1967, later annexed to Israel under the Jerusalem Law in 1980...

 neighborhood of Jerusalem. Levy married TV game show host Ido Rosenblum in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
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 on October 11, 2011.

Media career

Yonit Levi is the news anchor of the Israeli commercial Channel 2
Channel 2 (Israel)
Channel 2 is an Israeli commercial television channel.- History :In 1990, after 13 years of deliberations, the Knesset passed a law that paved the way for the establishment of commercial television in Israel. The goal was to enhance pluralism and create competition. Channel 2 began broadcasting on...

 prime time
Prime time
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 news program. Since 2002, when the former anchors Ya'akov Eilon
Ya'akov Eilon
Ya'akov Eilon is an Israeli television presenter. Alongside Miki Haimovich, he is the anchor of Channel 10 news.Born Ya'akov Pijade in 1961, in 1993 Eilon and Haimovich became the first news anchors on the new commercial Channel 2, until moving to Channel 10 in 2002.-References:...

 and Miki Haimovich
Miki Haimovich
Miki Haimovich is an Israeli television presenter. Alongside Ya'akov Eilon, she is the anchorwoman for Channel 10 news.After studying for a BA in political science from Tel Aviv University, Haimovich began working as a researcher for Channel 1 programmes Mabat Sheni and Boker Tov Israel...

 moved to Channel 10, she has hosted the show alternately with Danny Kushmaro. Under Levi the prime time news on Channel 2 remained the most watched Israeli program in a decade, despite the departure of the original presenters.

In January 2008, Levi conducted an interview with U.S. President George W. Bush
George W. Bush
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 at the White House
White House
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. In July 2010, Levi interviewed U.S. President Barack Obama
Barack Obama
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 at the White House
White House
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In 2010, Levi conducted an interview with Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi , also known as Il Cavaliere – from knighthood to the Order of Merit for Labour which he received in 1977 – is an Italian politician and businessman who served three terms as Prime Minister of Italy, from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006, and 2008 to 2011. Berlusconi is also the...

 in Italian
Italian language
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