34 Israeli women journalists

Nino Abesadze is an Israeli politician and journalist who served as a member of the Knesset for Kadima between 2009 and 2013.

Lucy Aharish is an Arab-Israeli news anchor, reporter, television host and actress. She is notable for being the first Muslim Arab news presenter on mainstream Hebrew-language Israeli television.

Michal Ansky, is an Israeli gastronomist, food journalist and television personality.

Or-ly Barlev is an Israeli social activist, and independent journalist. She is the first independent journalist, not backed by a media organization, who was accepted to the Israeli Journalism and Media Council. Her operation is funded by public donations.

Geulah Cohen was an Israeli politician and activist who founded the Tehiya party. She won the Israel Prize in 2003. Between 1974 and 1992, she served as a member of Knesset, initially for Likud. She changed her political affiliation to Tehiya in 1979. In 1992, she lost her seat in the Knesset.

Ilana Dayan-Orbach is an Israeli investigative journalist, anchorwoman, and attorney. She is best known as host of the investigative television program Uvda ("Fact") on the Israeli Channel 12.

Emuna Elon is an Israeli author, journalist, and women's rights activist.

Caroline Glick is an American-born Israeli conservative columnist, journalist, and author. She writes for Israel Hayom, Breitbart News, The Jerusalem Post, and Maariv. She is adjunct senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Security Policy, and directs the Israeli Security Project at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. In 2019, she was a candidate on Israeli political party New Right's list for Knesset.

Tamar Golan was an Israeli journalist and diplomat, who was known especially for her work to promote relations between Israel and African nations, and for her effort to increase knowledge and awareness of African culture in Israel.

Dorit Golender is the Vice President of Community Relations for the Genesis Philanthropy Group. She took the position after serving for five years as the Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the State of Israel to the Russian Federation (2010-2015). She also was a broadcast journalist known as Shlomit Lidor to Russian listeners.

Janna Gur is an Israeli food writer, editor and cook book author and an expert on Israeli and Jewish cuisine.

Amira Hass is an Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper Haaretz covering Palestinian affairs in the West Bank and Gaza, where she has lived for almost thirty years.

Tzipi Hotovely is an Israeli former politician. She served as Minister of Diaspora Affairs, Minister of Settlement Affairs and as a member of the Knesset for the Likud.

Hannah Kim is an Israeli journalist.

Oshrat Kotler is an Israeli journalist, television news presenter and author.

Yonit Levi is an Israeli news anchor, television presenter and journalist.

Irit Linur is an Israeli author.

Carmela Menashe is an Israeli journalist serving as a military reporter on IDF issues, on Israel's public radio Kol Yisrael.

Anastassia Yehudith Michaeli is an Israeli journalist, television presenter, and politician. She served as a member of Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu between 2009 and 2013. During her Knesset term she received media attention for attempting to physically disturb an Arab representative's speech and for comments she made on the psychology of gays and lesbians. While in the Knesset she was active in the international arena as chairperson of several parliamentary friendship leagues and represented the Knesset in official delegations to the European Union, France, Great Britain and Taiwan.

Merav Michaeli is an Israeli political, journalist, TV anchor, radio broadcaster and activist. She is currently a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party.

Natasha Mozgovaya is an American-Israeli journalist. She is a TV host for Voice of America.

Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh is an Israeli politician and journalist. She became the first Druze woman to anchor a Hebrew-language news program on Israeli television in 2017. In April 2019, she was elected to the Knesset as a member of the Blue and White alliance, making history as the first Druze woman to become a Member of the Knesset. She was subsequently elected to the Knesset as part of the Blue and White alliance in the September 2019 and March 2020 elections. She left Blue and White on 29 March 2020 and joined Yesh Atid.

Keren Neubach is an Israeli journalist, television presenter for the Israeli (government) Channel 1, and radio presenter for Reshet Bet.

Vaan Nguyen is an Israeli poet, actress, journalist and social activist.

Dana G. Peleg is an Israeli writer, poet, journalist, translator and editor. She is an activist for women's and LGBT rights. She wrote the first regular column in the Israeli press on the subject of lesbian, bisexual and pansexual women.

Anat Saragusti, is one of the leading Israeli journalist, publicist, jurist, formerly the CEO of Agenda formerly news editor and reporter photographer and peace activist and human rights advocate. Anat is a founding member of Ta Ha'Itonayot and Merkaz Media Nashim.

Alice Schwarz-Gardos was an Austrian-born Israeli journalist and author. She was noted for her work as an editor for German-language newspapers in Israel, and was editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Israel-Nachrichten. She documented political and cultural events and displayed Zionism in her stance.

Stav Shaffir is an Israeli politician. She is the leader of the Green Party, who was a member of the Knesset for the Democratic Union alliance. She came to national prominence as one of the leaders of the 2011 Israeli social justice protests, focusing on housing, public services, income inequality and democracy, and later became spokeswoman of the movement. She was subsequently elected to the Knesset in 2013 as a member of the Labor Party in 2013. The party contested the 2015 elections as part of the Zionist Union alliance, with Shaffir retaining her seat. She was re-elected again in the April 2019 elections, in which Labor ran alone. However, after losing a Labor leadership election to Amir Peretz in June 2019, she left the party and resigned from the Knesset and became head of the Green Movement. Her new party formed the Democratic Union alongside Meretz and the Israel Democratic Party. Shaffir lost her Knesset seat in the 2020 election.

Bambi Sheleg was an Israeli journalist and founding editor of the magazine Eretz Acheret.

Nili Tal is an Israeli journalist and documentary film director and producer.

Esther Vilenska was a Lithuanian Jewish Israeli communist politician, journalist and author who served as a member of the Knesset for Maki between 1951 and 1959 and then again from 1961 to 1965.

Dana Weiss is an Israeli journalist, anchorwoman and attorney. The host of Saturday night news and the political and diplomatic correspondent for the Israeli Channel 12, she was previously moderator of Meet the Press on the Israeli Channel 2.

Shelly Rachel Yachimovich is an Israeli politician, who served as the leader of the opposition three times, a member of the Knesset, and a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. She served as leader of the Israeli Labor Party between 2011 and 2013. Before entering politics, she was a journalist, an author, and a television and radio commentator.

Hagar Yanai is an Israeli author and recipient of the 2008 Prime Minister's Award for Israeli Authors. She is also a two-time recipient of the Geffen Award for Best Original Hebrew Fantasy.