Nicol Raidman ( he, ניקול ראידמן, uk, Ніколь Райдман; 11 June 1986) is a USSR-born

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

i figure, businesswoman and philanthropist's wife. She participated in two seasons of the Israeli reality show ''

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'', Israel's answer to '' The Real Housewives'' franchise. Born in

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, USSR, Raidman is an only child. Her father is a businessman, and her mother is a musician who ran the Conservatory in Ukraine and the " Tower of Light (theatre)", a Yiddish musical theater in Odessa. Nicol herself learned to play the saxophone in her youth. In 1996, ten-year-old Raidman and her family emigrated to

. She worked as a salesperson in a toy shop. At the end of high school, she enrolled in communications and international relations at the

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while working as a makeup artist and a production assistant. In 2011 she opened a luxury clothing store, "

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", in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

. In April 2013, she launched a perfume bearing the name of the store and sold exclusively duty-free. In 2019 she launched her singing career.At This Surreal Event, Sara Netanyahu Was Only the Sidekick
Haaretz. 24 September 2019 Aki Avni appears as her love interest in two music videos.

Personal life

Raidman was married to the entrepreneur,

Michael Cherney Michael Cherney ( he, מיכאל צ'רנוי, russian: Михаил Чёрный, also Mikhail Chernoy, Mikhail Semenovitch Chorny or Mikhail Chernoi; born 16 January 1952) is an Uzbek-born Israeli entrepreneur and industrialist. He is known for h ...

. They have two children together, Michelle and Richard. They parted in mid 2019. She is close friends with

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Philanthropy

In 2014, during Operation Protective Edge, she donated NIS 300,000 to immediately buy protective vests for combat Israeli soldiers, and another NIS 200,000 to buy food and clothing for soldiers.Nicole Raedman: "Two hundred thousand shekels on groceries for soldiers
Ynet, 22.07.14

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Raidman, Nicole Israeli philanthropists 20th-century Israeli businesswomen 20th-century Israeli businesspeople 1986 births Living people Ukrainian emigrants to Israel Israeli pop singers Israeli people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent 21st-century Israeli women singers