Lucy Aharish
| Lucy Aharish | |
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| Born |
18 September 1981 Dimona, Israel |
| Residence | Tel Aviv |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Occupation | Journalism |
| Known for | First Arab news presenter on mainstream Israeli TV |
Lucy Aharish (Arabic: لوسي هريش, Hebrew: לוסי אהריש; born 18 September 1981) is an Israeli-Arab news presenter, reporter, and television host.
She serves as a morning anchor on a current-affairs show on Channel 2. Aharish is notable for being the first Arab news presenter on Hebrew-language Israeli television. From July 2013 until January 2016 she also presented the Evening Edition of the news broadcaster i24news.
Aharish was born in 1981 in the southern Israeli town of Dimona, to Maaruf and Salwa Aharish, Arab Israeli Muslim parents originally from Nazareth. She is the youngest of three daughters. Growing up, she was the only Arab student at her school. On Purim she dressed up as Queen Esther, and on Israeli Independence Day she wore blue and white. Later, in 2015, Aharish praised her former high school principal Meir Cohen (currently a Knesset member with the Yesh Atid party) for having fostered an uncompromising stance against racism.
In the summer of 1987, a few months before she turned six years old, she was slightly injured when a Molotov cocktail was thrown at her family's car by Palestinian militants, while driving in the Gaza Strip.
During her adolescence, she says she believed right-wing politics: "I am an Arab who grew up among Moroccan Jews. That's the worst. You learn the hard-core shticks; they have a very short fuse. I was a right-wing Muslim, a fan of Beitar (Jerusalem soccer club with nationalistic fans)." She now identifies with the left.
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