Nava Boker
Nava Prehi-Boker is an Israeli journalist and politician.Biography
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." In 2010 her husband was killed in the Mount Carmel forest fire. She subsequently established a foundation to support fire and rescue workers.
Prior to the 2015 Knesset elections she was placed 25th on the Likud list. She was elected to the Knesset as Likud won 30 seats.
Boker lives in Hadera and has two daughters.
