Anyone who watches American news or television will recognize Erielle Reshef. She works for ABC News as a regional news correspondent. She has worked for Hearst Television and KOCO 5 News.
Here are five intriguing facts about Reshef that we know!
1. Reshef is a Regional Emmy Award Winner
Long before her stint at ABC News, Reshef had a career highlight.
She won a regional Emmy award in the Public Affairs category for her work on ‘KOCO Chronicle: The Investigation Conviction of Daniel Holtzclaw’ when she was a news anchor for KOCO 5 from 2012 to 2016.
The news story focused on a convicted Oklahoma police officer accused of sexually assaulting women.
Reshef was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her reports on Good Morning America after joining ABC News. The award honors outstanding success in daytime television production and is given to persons and programs that air between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.
2. Israel is her native land.
Reshef’s convincing American accent could trick you into thinking she’s Israeli. She was born in Israel to Israeli parents, Dr. Eli Reshef and Edie Roodman. Her birthday is September 23, despite the fact that her precise age is unknown.
Reshef immigrated to the United States from Israel at a young age and attended college there from 2001 to 2005. Between 2010 and 2012, she returned to Israel to work for IBA English News, an Israeli news station.
In a 2012 piece, she again gushed over her on-the-ground reporting while covering the Israel-Gaza conflict.
Eitan Reshef and Evan Reshef are the news correspondent’s two brothers.
3. Reshef is not a journalist.
Reshef does not have a journalism degree despite having worked in the media. Instead, she earned a BA in political science and Jewish studies from Indiana University Bloomington in 2005.
Her academic credentials, however, have aided her coverage of politics, disasters, and global security challenges.
The Middle East upheavals, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Japanese tsunami and earthquake, the Boston Marathon bombings, the terror incident in Manchester, and other events have all been covered by the broadcast journalist.
4. Her husband is an investment banker.
Reshef married Daniel Frankenstein in her Oklahoma home on May 30, 2010.
Frankenstein is a co-founder of Janvest, a corporation that connects businesses and investors in the United States and Israel. He is the organization’s New York partner.
He attended high school in the United States and graduated from the University of California, Berkley, like his spouse.
Reshef has two sons and is a mother.
Marvyk Julius Frankenstein and Mayr Reshef Frankenstein are Reshef and Frankenstein’s sons.
Their second son was born in August 2019, according to Reshef’s Instagram post. She shares photos of her two sons and family on Instagram on a regular basis, offering fans a glimpse into her picture-perfect family.
