{{Short description|Israeli journalist and politician}} {{Infobox officeholder |image = Nava Boker.jpg |caption = Boker in 2015 |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|11|15|df=y}} |birth_place = Israel |office1 = Faction represented in the Knesset |suboffice1 = Likud |subterm1 = 2015–2019 }}
'''Nava Prehi-Boker''' ({{langx|he|נאוה פרחי-בוקר}}; born 15 November 1970) is an Israeli journalist and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 2015 and 2019.
==Biography== Nava Boker was born and raised in Pardes Hanna-Karkur. Her parents were Jewish immigrants from Yemen. A journalist by profession, Boker worked for both Yedioth Ahronoth and Ma'ariv, as well as Channel 1. She married and had two daughters, then divorced. At age 27, as a reporter, she met Hadera police chief Lior Boker, and married him. Due to difficulties with obtaining a marriage certificate from the Israeli rabbinate, she married Boker in what she described as an "alternative marriage."<ref>[http://www.mishmar.org.il/page.php?p=12111 Nava Boker (Likud): "I married in an alternative marriage", Ksenia Svetlova (Zionist Camp): "I was refused a divorce for two years", Ruth Calderon (Yesh Atid): "I demanded an equal divorce"] Al Mishmar HaKnesset, 19 February 2015</ref> In 2010 Lior was killed in the 2010 Mount Carmel forest fire.<ref>[http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192810#.VQnSU46sWhE Just Who are the Likud Candidates Who Surprisingly Made it in?] Israel National News, 18 March 2015</ref> She subsequently established a foundation to support fire and rescue workers.<ref>[http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=22303 Widow of Carmel fire victim to run in Likud primaries] Israel HaYom, 18 December 2014</ref>
Prior to the 2015 Knesset elections she was placed 25th on the Likud list,<ref>[http://www.bechirot20.gov.il/election/Candidates/Pages/OneListCandidates.aspx?LPF=Search&WebId=6adadc15-e476-480b-9746-04490aedeb0f&ListID=ba72a662-765c-45af-9d48-fb68080956af&ItemID=56&FieldID=ListNickname_GxS_Text Likud list] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331165811/http://www.bechirot20.gov.il/election/Candidates/Pages/OneListCandidates.aspx?LPF=Search&WebId=6adadc15-e476-480b-9746-04490aedeb0f&ListID=ba72a662-765c-45af-9d48-fb68080956af&ItemID=56&FieldID=ListNickname_GxS_Text |date=2019-03-31 }} Central Elections Committee</ref> and was elected to the Knesset as Likud won 30 seats.<ref>[http://bechirot20.gov.il/election/english/kneset20/Pages/results20_eng.aspx Final Unofficial* results of the Elections for the Twentieth Knesset] Central Elections Committee</ref> She lost her seat in the April 2019 elections. She subsequently participated in the 2020 VIP season of ''Survivor''.
Boker lives in Hadera and has two daughters.
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