Abrahami, Elie

Gil Hovav (Hebrew: גיל חובב; born March 17, 1962) is an Israeli TV presenter, culinary journalist, restaurant critic, and author. The Jewish Chronicle described him as "Israel's most famous television chef and cookery-book writer," and The Forward calls him "Israel's top foodie." He is the grandson of Itamar Ben-Avi, who began modern Israeli journalism, and the great-grandson of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who revived Hebrew as a modern language.