Background
Lior Schleien was born in 1978 in Tel Aviv, Israel to Jewish parents of Lithuanian decent.
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Lior Schleien was born in 1978 in Tel Aviv, Israel to Jewish parents of Lithuanian decent.
Tel Aviv University.
He holds a law degree from Tel Aviv University. He started his television career in 2002, by writing and hosting a satire segment on Yair Lapid"s Talk Show (Lapid is now Israel"s Minister of Finance). He is the creator and host of the prime time comedy and satire television show State Of The Nation ("Matzav Ha"Uma").
In 2011, he created, produced and hosted When Will The Cops Come?– The Freedom Of Speech Prom ("Matay Yavo Shoter? - Mesibat Sium Hofesh Habituy"), a gathering of comedians and media personalities in protest against new laws of the Israeli government designed to restrict the freedom of speech.
In the event, which took place in Tel Aviv, every speaker was allocated 5 minutes to say anything on his mind, without reprisal, in the eleventh hour before the new laws were enacted. In 2013, he was chosen by Ha"aretz Newspaper as the 4th most influential person on Israeli Television.
Personal life.
He is the life partner of Merav Michaeli, a Member of the Israeli Parliament.