Michal Ansky

Michal Ansky was born Gabrielle Ansky and raised in Jerusalem, to Jewish parents. Her father, {{ill|Alex Ansky|he|אלכס אנסקי}}, was born in 1939 as Aleksander Abrabanel in Bulgaria, into a Ladino-speaking household. Her mother {{ill|Sherry Ansky|he|שרי אנסקי}} (née Gavriyahu) was born in Israel, into a Yiddish-speaking Masorti household. Michal Asnky's mother is a journalist and gastronomist, and her father, an actor and radio presenter.[https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-bulgarian-love-triangle-in-the-shadow-of-world-war-two/ In WWII love story, Israeli actors face their Bulgarian roots]. Times of Israel Michal's paternal grandfather, {{ill|Eliezer Ansky|he|אליעזר אנסקי}}, born Abrabanel (1903–1990) was the founder and director of the Bimatenu children's theatre and worked in his sixties as an artist, creating a sculpture for the Tel Aviv Rabbinate and creatively restoring a wall mosaic in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, among others.{{cite web |title= Caspari Center Media Review: Arts: Kol HaZman, March 14; Arei Modi'in, March 14; HaIr-Tel Aviv, March 13, 2008 |date= 24 March 2008 |publisher= Caspari Center for Biblical and Jewish Studies |url= https://www.caspari.com/2008/03/24/march-24-2008/ |access-date=21 March 2020}}{{cite web |title= Joels Davidi Weisberger Vigoda, entry on Jewish surname/pseudonym Ansky |date= 2019-01-02 |publisher= Jewish Genealogy Portal via Facebook |url= https://m.facebook.com/groups/JewishGenealogyPortal/?ref=group_header&view=permalink&id=2028714647176771 |access-date=21 March 2020}}{{cite encyclopedia |title= Israel: Theatre for Young Audiences |encyclopedia= World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre |volume= 1: Europe |publisher= Routledge |editor1=Peter Nagy |editor2=Philippe Rouyer |year= 2014 |isbn= 9781136118128 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=t1GvBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT791 |access-date=21 March 2020}}

Ansky attended Gymnasia Rehavia high school in Jerusalem.{{citation needed |date=March 2020}} She then served as an officer in the Israeli military (IDF), in the Air Force filming unit. After completing her military service, she continued to do reserve duty as an administrations officer in the Public Relations Unit.[http://www.nrg.co.il/online/54/ART2/190/427.html Ansky on her military service, NRG website]

• 2004 – History and Literature studies at Venice International University
• 2008 – Bachelor of Arts in History and Literature from Tel Aviv University.
• 2009 – Master in Gastronomic Sciences from the Slow Food University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy, specializing in food products quality.{{Cite web|url=http://www.yitzug1.co.il/Artist.asp?ID=622|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015085254/http://www.yitzug1.co.il/Artist.asp?ID=622|url-status=dead|title=Ansky's resume in "Yitzug1" website|archivedate=October 15, 2013}}

At the age of 17, Ansky wrote a food column for a local Jerusalem newspaper, Kol Ha’ir.{{Cite web|url=https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1000803336|title=מיכל אנסקי: "אני אדם יצרי, יכולה לאכול ולבכות"|first=יעל|last=ולצר|date=December 4, 2012|via=Globes}}

Following the completion of her military service, Ansky wrote a column called "The Missing Piece" (Hahatiha hahasera){{Cite web|url=https://e.walla.co.il/item/1122924|title=החתיכה החסרה - וואלה! תרבות|date=June 14, 2007|website=וואלה!}} for 'Walla' culture website, was part of the all-girl talk show "Girls" (Banot) which aired on Hot Cable network in 2007, and wrote and presented a historical and culinary segment for the TV show "Quality time" (Zman Eichut) which aired in 2007 on Channel 1.

In 2008 she worked as a culinary and cultural reporter for Ma'ariv newspaper and also wrote for the gastronomic magazine "The Food Route" (Derech Haochel). In 2009 she participated in "The Dinner Club" (Moa'adon Aruchat Haerev), which aired on Channel 2, as a field reporter.

Later that year, Ansky started hosting two TV cooking shows: "As Fresh As It Gets"{{Cite web|url=http://food.nana10.co.il/Section/?SectionID=11975|title="As Fresh As It Gets" in "Nana10" portal}} alongside Chef Omer Miller and "The Queen of the Market",[http://video.walla.co.il/?w=/2185/1875641 "Queen of the Market"] both focusing on local and organic produce. The TV shows aired for 3 seasons on the Israeli Food Channel and Channel 10.

In late 2010, Ansky began presenting the Israeli version of Master Chef,{{Cite web|url=https://www.mako.co.il/food-masterchef|title=מאסטר שף עונה 9 | אוכל טוב | קשת 12|website=mako}} alongside Chefs Haim Cohen, Eyal Shani and Rafi Adar in Season 1, Cohen, Shani and Yonatan Roshfeld in Seasons 2–6, and Cohen, Shani and Yisrael Aharoni in Seasons 6–10. The show's popularity led to Ansky being invited to join Master Chef USA as a guest judge, along with Chef Gordon Ramsay.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYulaviosa8|title=- YouTube|website=www.youtube.com}} In April 2012, Ansky hosted the first season of Junior Master Chef Israel, alongside Haim Cohen, Eyal Shani and Yonatan Rochfeld.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mako.co.il/food-masterchef-kids|title=מאסטר שף ילדים | mako תכניות|website=mako}} In its 2021 season, continues to be one of the hosts of MasterChef Israel, together with Haim Cohen, Eyal Shani and Yisrael Aharoni.[https://fashionforward.mako.co.il/news/228026/ מיכל אנסקי סוגרת עונה עם שמלת מיני לוהטת]. Fashion Forward

In 2010, she hosted "Cooking from Books" (Mevashlim Mehasfarim){{Cite web|url=https://www.ynet.co.il/home/0,7340,L-8,00.html|title=ynet - חדשות, כלכלה, ספורט ובריאות - דיווחים שוטפים מהארץ ומהעולם|website=ynet}} for the Israeli Food Channel.

In December 2012, Ansky gave a talk on food and memories at Tedx Jerusalem,{{Cite web|url=http://www.tedxjerusalem.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121221012652/http://www.tedxjerusalem.com/speakers/|url-status=dead|title=Account Suspended|archivedate=December 21, 2012|website=www.tedxjerusalem.com}} an independently organized TED event.

Ansky currently presents the radio show, "Ansky and Enzel"{{Cite web |url=http://www.103.fm/programs/program.aspx?c41t4nzVq=EFG |title="Ansky and Enzel" |access-date=2012-12-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115135451/http://www.103.fm/programs/program.aspx?c41t4nzVq=EFG |archive-date=2013-01-15 |url-status=dead }} together with Efrat Enzel, on the 103FM radio station.

In 2007, Ansky founded the Farmers Market at the Tel Aviv Port, which she currently continues to manage. The purpose of the market, which exists these days in six locations in Israel (Tel Aviv, Beersheba, Raanana, Herzeliya, Holon and Rishon Lezion).{{Cite web|url=https://www.farmersmarket.co.il/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113215131/http://www.farmersmarket.co.il/bloge/|url-status=dead|title=שוק איכרים - מזון מיד ראשונה!|archivedate=November 13, 2012|website=שוק איכרים}} is to bring fresh agricultural produce directly from the farmer to the consumer, thereby eliminating commissions and reducing the cost to the consumer.

In 2010, Ansky founded "Shuk Hanamal",{{Cite web|url=https://shukhanamal.co.il/|title=שוק הנמל: שוק אוכל בתל אביב מהחקלאי לצרכן, בית לקולינריה ישראלית|website=שוק הנמל תל אביב | בית לקולינריה ישראלית | האנגר 12 נמל תל אביב}} the first indoor market in Israel at the Tel Aviv port, together with her husband, the architect Roee Hemed, and Shir Halpern.

In 2015, she was involved in joint culinary ventures with Amir Bramly who invested Rubicon Business Group funds. She also invested her own private funds with Bramly's "Kela fund". In November 2015, following Kela fund's financial difficulties she said in a television interview with Channel 2 news that she lost more than a million NIS (US$250,000). Restaurants which were owned by Bramly's Rubicon Business group but managed and presented under Ansky's name were closed,[http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/.premium-1.684330 Tel Aviv Facing Wave of Restaurant Closings, Haaretz English, 2015-11-05]> and some of her future ventures with Bramly, including a planned food market in New York City were cancelled.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mako.co.il/news-channel2/Economy-Newcast-q4_2015/Article-34015aef8b7f051004.htm|title=N12 - מיכל אנסקי על ההסתבכות עם השותף|date=November 11, 2015|website=N12}}{{Cite journal|url=https://www.themarker.com/news/1.2770513|title=הצרות של אמיר ברמלי ומיכל אנסקי נמשכות בניו יורק|journal=TheMarker}} She managed to salvage some joint ventures with a court approved "divorce" restructuring, so that they reverted fully to her name in return for a 1.2 million NIS payment to Rubicon.{{Cite news|url=https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001078394|title="הגט" של אמיר ברמלי ומיכל אנסקי: ביהמ"ש אישר פשרה|first=גור|last=מגידו|date=November 3, 2015|newspaper=Globes}}

In August 2021, Ansky opened a branch of Sherry Herring, a sandwich shop offering herring sandwiches served with a shot of vodka, in Manhattan's Upper West Side. The original shop was opened by Ansky in Tel Aviv and is named after her mother[https://www.timesofisrael.com/tel-avivs-sherry-herring-sandwich-shop-to-open-in-new-york/ Tel Aviv’s Sherry Herring sandwich shop to open in New York]. Times of Israel

Ansky was married to architect Roi Hemed, with whom she had one daughter, before they divorced in 2013. In October 2019, she married a businessman Eyal Amir, and had another daughter.{{cite web |url=https://pplus.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-5605015,00.html |title=הדובדבן שבקצפת: מיכל אנסקי התחתנה |website=ynet.co.il |language=he |date=11 October 2019 }}

In 2019 she fell ill with Bell's palsy.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mako.co.il/entertainment-celebs/local-2018/Article-60e05a0afbbaa61027.htm|title=מיכל אנסקי חשפה את פניה לאחר השיתוק|date=May 12, 2019|website=mako}}

Ansky's first cookbook, "'Food from Home", was published in January 2013.[http://www.foodis.co.il/feature.asp?sec=18&featid=31132 Food from Home], foodis.co.il

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| Ansky with President of Israel Reuven Rivlin, Ofra Strauss and Naftali Bennett at the Jasmine businesswomen's convention for promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises, Israel, 15 December 2014

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• Israeli cuisine
• Women of Israel

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• [http://shukhanamal.co.il/?page_id=1114 Shuk Hanamal site]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120815072212/http://www.farmersmarket.co.il/bloge/?page_id=136 Farmers Markets in Israel site]
• Rob Eshman (April 5, 2011), [http://www.jewishjournal.com/passover_food/article/michal_ansky_celebrates_springs_bounty_on_passover_20110405 Michal Ansky celebrates spring’s bounty on Passover], in The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
• (May 27, 2011), [http://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/food/49604/the-farmers-market-foodies-set-out-their-stall The farmers' market foodies set out their stall], in The Jewish Chronicle
• Steve Walz (July 3, 2011), [https://archive.today/20130120045334/http://csiisrael.com/where-master-chef-meets-the-farmers-market/ Where “Master Chef” Meets The Farmer’s Market] in Come See Israel site
• {{YouTube|-J_d3XMboe4|Michal Ansky to be judge on "Master chef" America}} in info live TV channel
• {{YouTube|SV_Sz_iR9MA|The Market's Queen}} (in Hebrew)

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