Becky Griffin

Rebecca Griffin was born in Givatayim, Israel. Her mother Ariela (née Gadasi) is an Israeli accountant who used to work for the Steimatzky bookstore chain, and is of Mizrahi Jewish (Yemenite-Jewish) descent. Her father Bob Griffin is an American-born Israeli of Jewish and Irish descent, who played professional basketball for Israeli Basketball Premier League clubs in the 1970s such as Maccabi Tel Aviv, and is currently is an associate professor of English Literature. Her parents first met at a bus stop in Israel.[2][3] She has a younger brother named Oren Griffin.

She was first discovered in a commercial at the age of 11. By the time she was 20 she had already starred in several commercials and campaigns, and then got her first job in television as a sports reporter on the Israeli Sport 5 Channel. She also hosted youth shows on Israel's Channel 1, and worked as a reporter in the shows of Erev Tov Im Guy Pines and In & Out. Griffin also starred in the 2003 Israeli drama film Matana MiShamayim, and has had guest appearances on several television dramas.

On May 12, 2003, she became an MTV VJ on MTV Europe, and left the Israelli sports channel. Prior to 2005, Griffin stayed in the United Kingdom and appeared on the channel as the host of the Dance Floor Chart, the World Chart Express, and many Pan-Euro specials.[4]

During her time in the UK, Griffin was chosen to star in the Nissan Micra Campaign all over Europe.

In December 2003, she was chosen to lead the campaign of the Israeli fashion chain Castro.

She returned to Israel in 2005, and a year later enrolled as a cinema and television student at the Tel Aviv University (TAU), and has been a media consultant for The Student Union during the 2006–2007 student protest.

In 2008, Becky was the EuroLeague correspondent for Israel's Channel 10, and in 2010 hosted "Inside Israeli Basketball", a magazine that aired on several American cable stations.

In August 2011, Griffin brought international attention to the Nivea Cosmetics website for failing to list Israel as a country, while including the Palestinian territories. Griffin wrote a letter to Nivea which she publicized on her Facebook page, beginning a boycott of Nivea products. Conservative radio and television personality Glenn Beck raised the issue on his radio show on the morning of August 4, 2011, and minutes later Nivea's site included Israel. That day, Nivea told BLAZE Magazine that the website for Israel was under construction and had therefore not been listed.

She currently resides in New York.

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