Nava Boker

Nava Prehi-Boker (Hebrew: נאוה פרחי-בוקר; born 15 November 1970) is an Israeli journalist and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 2015 and 2019.

Nava Boker
נאוה בוקר
Boker in 2015
Faction represented in the Knesset
2015–2019	Likud
Personal details
Born	(1970-11-15) 15 November 1970 (age 54) Israel

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."^[1] In 2010 Lior was killed in the 2010 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.