{"id":554252,"date":"2026-07-22T15:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/554252\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T15:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:47:13","slug":"israeli-reality-star-yakir-levy-passes-away-at-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/554252\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli reality star Yakir Levy passes away at 45"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yakir Levy, star of the Israeli docu-reality series The Americans, died at the age of 45 on Tuesday after falling from the 28th floor of a hotel in Miami<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Levy, originally from Ramla, gained public attention over the past year after appearing on Channel 13<\/a>‘s The Americans, which follows the lives of Israelis who immigrated to the United States<\/a> and achieved major professional success while maintaining their Israeli identity.<\/p>\n

He is expected to be buried in Israel, though funeral arrangements have not yet been announced. He is survived by his wife and three children.<\/p>\n

During the series, Levy recounted his decision to move to the US, saying he arrived with very little money.<\/p>\n

“I came with $300 in my pocket and turned it into millions,” he said. “I did it little by little, with a lot of hard work and dreams. I can do anything my mind sets out to do.”<\/p>\n

Levy went on to build a successful business specializing in restoring buildings damaged by natural disasters<\/a>. “Along the way, I’m also rebuilding people’s lives. Whether they’re abused women, drug addicts, or former prisoners, I took in the people nobody else wanted,” he said in a previous interview.<\/p>\n

Social media personality Lee Alon, who appeared alongside Levy on The Americans, paid tribute to him.<\/p>\n

“There are moments that are simply impossible to process. I just can’t believe it,” she wrote. “Even though we didn’t know each other for many years, he left me with the memory of a truly great person, with a huge heart, a warm smile, and an energy that was impossible to forget. My heart is simply broken. I’ll remember you forever.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yakir Levy, star of the Israeli docu-reality series The Americans, died at the age of 45 on Tuesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3190,1903,85,8697,46,35245,43,6653],"class_list":["post-554252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-death","tag-diaspora","tag-il","tag-immigration","tag-israel","tag-miami","tag-news","tag-reality-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}