page_title: Bar Refaeli
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Bar Refaeli / Early life
caption_attribution_description: עברית: בר רפאלי ואמה ציפי לוין
context_page_description: Bar Refaeli is an Israeli supermodel, television host, actress, and entrepreneur. She is considered among the most internationally successful models to come from Israel, appearing on the cover of the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and being voted No. 1 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 list of 2012. As a television host, Refaeli has hosted The X Factor Israel since 2013 and co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv.
  As a result of her modeling and investment career, her net worth was estimated at US $20 million in 2015, and was the highest-paid model in Israel according to Forbes Israel in 2013.
context_section_description: Refaeli was born and raised in Hod HaSharon, Israel, to a secular Jewish family. In Hebrew, her first name means "wild" (as in nature), and her surname literally means "God heals" and is a derivative of the biblical angel Raphael. Her parents were both born in Israel, and her grandparents were immigrants from Europe and of Sephardic Jewish (Italian-Jewish) and Ashkenazi Jewish (Lithuanian-Jewish, and Polish-Jewish) descent. Her grandparents were Holocaust survivors. Her father Rafi Refaeli is a horse stable owner, and her mother was a successful model in the 1970s under her maiden name Tzipora "Tzipi" Levine.
caption: 5-year-old Refaeli with her mother Tzipi in 1990
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