Yael Cohen Aris

Yael Cohen Aris was born on August 13, 1996, in the southern Israeli town of Moshav Ge'a. She is the youngest of three siblings, growing up with a mother who works as a lawyer and a father who owns a cooling business. From 2015 to 2019, Yael served in the Israel Defense Forces as a software engineer within the intelligence branch, a period during which she also began her modeling career.

Following her military service, Yael expanded her presence in the fashion world. In 2019, she featured in a campaign for Dan Bilzerian’s Ignite brand in Thailand. That same year, reports surfaced about a sex doll modeled after her image being produced without her consent—an incident covered by Israeli media and Playboy. In 2020, she launched "HolyLand," a digital magazine aimed at supporting freedom of sexual expression.

Yael’s social media following grew significantly, with more than 1.6 million followers on Instagram and over a million on TikTok as of 2026. She gained additional visibility in the summer of 2020 for posting images wearing a bikini made from masks, dubbed the "CoronaKini." Alongside her modeling and influencer work, Yael identifies as a gamer and cosplayer, balancing these interests with her background in software engineering.