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an early morning show. “It wasn’t easy Sivan writes the piece in Hebrew, and
to get up at 4am for the show, but in a team of volunteers translates it into
retrospect it is a lot harder to get all my 18 different languages and sends it
kids ready for school each morning!” out. “I owe so much to this team, who
One of her most prominent roles came have really given this project life. They
when she became the anchor of the are constantly thinking about how to
6pm news show and began conducting spread Torah to more people, using
high profile interviews with figures technology in every way possible.”
ranging from Sarah Netanyahu to
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef to businessmen In recent years, Sivan was voted
like Lev Leviev. Israel’s most popular female media
personality in a Globes Newspaper
Sivan is married to Yedidya Meir, a poll and listed as one of the most
journalist, radio broadcaster and influential Jews in the world by the
columnist for B’Sheva. “Yedidya and Jerusalem Post. “It’s flattering and
I met each other thanks to Shabbat. exciting. I try to remember that
An event that was supposed to take the Globes poll is not just about me
place on Friday night was postponed personally, but is also meant as a
at my request until Saturday night.
Sivan It turns out that Yedidya had also protest against a media that is too
uniform and too provocative, a media
requested that the event be postponed
to Saturday night. We stood at the that does not respect the values of a
entrance to the event, and the significant portion of its consumers.”
Rahav-Meir: organizer said to me: ‘I want you to A mother of five, Sivan’s day begins
meet the other religious nudnik who
at 6:30am. “I try to daven Shacharit
got us to postpone this whole event!’ before I wake up the children. I get
We started talking, and Baruch Hashem, them ready in the morning, and
we haven’t stopped talking ever since!” when Yedidya finishes his morning
A Remarkable Journey About six years ago something show on Kol Chai radio he does a

changed. In parallel with her work round of drop-offs at several schools.
at News 12, writing a weekly column The daily schedule is fluid. There are
in Yediot Acharonot and presenting a days at home and days filled with
weekly program on Galei Tzahal, she speeches and work – everything is
began giving a weekly Torah class very flexible.” She tries to get to sleep
to singles living in the Nachlaot before midnight, but rarely succeeds.
neighborhood of Jerusalem. “The class What is Sivan’s dream for the future?
took place every Wednesday at nine in “Rebbe Nachman once said that we
the evening at Heichal Shlomo, with
new content each time.” Hundreds must stop being poor; we must return
of people came to the class every to the treasure within us. All of us – as
week, which was broadcast live on individuals and together as a people
Facebook and YouTube, and is now – have treasures within us that we
produced for Channel 12 in their must bring to the world! And one more
studios and broadcast every Friday. thing – I hope one day I’ll learn how
“The goal is for the parasha to be part to cook!”
of the cultural pulse, part of the Israeli
DNA.” Following the success of the
weekly class, Sivan began lecturing  A version of this article orig-
in Israel and around the world. “It’s inally appeared in Hebrew at
fun to share this Torah with different www.IsraelNationalNews.com.
communities, both at Ramle Prison
and with the General Staff Forum of
the IDF. I won’t reveal which audience
paid better attention!”
Sivan also began a wildly successful
volunteer project called י ִמֹוּי ַה ק ֶל ֵח ַה, a
short daily article on the parasha of the From top to bottom: Sivan with her husband Yedidya;
week and current events that reaches With Natan and Avital Sharansky; With her family and
tens of thousands of subscribers Rabbi Doron Perez as they depart for shlichut in the
around the world via WhatsApp. USA; With Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l.

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