Yonit Levi – Keynote Speaker

For almost 15 years, Yonit Levi has been the lead anchor of Israel’s top primetime news programme on Channel 2, Israel’s most popular television station. Levi made Israeli television history in 2007 when she became the first woman in Israel to hold this position, having started as the programme’s co-anchor in 2002.

Levi has secured major interviews including President Barack Obama, President George W. Bush, President Bill Clinton, Secretary Hillary Clinton, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, as well as international icons such as Bill Gates and comedians Jon Stewart and Conan O’Brien.

Yonit Levi has also repeatedly left her anchor’s chair to serve as Channel 2’s lead field correspondent covering major global stories including the past four U.S. election campaigns; the failed coup in Turkey, the tsunami disaster in Japan, the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, the Balkan wars and post9/11 New York City. She has also reported closer to home: Israel’s wars in Gaza; the second Lebanon war and the peace talks in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt.