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 . " In 2010 her husband was killed in the Mount Carmel forest fire . She subsequently established a foundation to support fire and rescue workers
Mount Carmel forest fire
Mount Carmel forest fire (2010)
Nava Boker