Biography

Yael Lavie is an American-Israeli Journalist, broadcaster and independent filmmaker.

An Emmy award-winning journalist and anchor, Lavie has worked around the world with a particular focus on the Middle East and Europe. A former senior producer and editor for ABC News, Lavie reported on the aftermath of 9/11 from New York City, Afghanistan, and Iraq between 1994-2006. She relocated to the Middle East in 2006 and became the senior editorial producer for Sky News Jerusalem/Middle East bureau until 2011.

Lavie is the author of "War Producer" a retrospective memoir about American media in the lead to the Iraq war, published by Yediot Press Ltd. 2011

Between 2013-1017 Lavie was managing editor and anchor of "the morning edition" and later "The Daily Dose" on I24news, an international news channel broadcasting from Jaffa, Israel.

Lavie is the director of several independent documentaries; "How We Won" (Reshet, 2013) and "Why didn't you say so" (HOT, 2017).

Lavie served as Showrunner and co-executive producer on "Vaxxed Nation" a Smithsonian channel documentary about Israel's vaccination campaign at the onset of the covid-19 pandemic, filmed through out 2021.

As of 2015 Lavie lectures on Media ethics in the digital age with a particular focus on conflict zone reporting at Reichman University. She is married to Oded Toury, they reside in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- IMDb mini biography by: O.Toury