Portman was born on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem.[1] Her parents are Jewish.[4][5][6] Her parents gave her the traditional Hebrew name of "Neta-Lee".[2] She is the only child of Shelley (née Stevens),[7] an American homemaker who works as Portman's agent, and Avner Hershlag, an Israeli fertility specialist and gynecologist.[8] Her maternal grandparents, Bernice (née Hurwitz) and Arthur Stevens[7] (whose family surname was originally Edelstein),[9] were from Jewish families who moved to the United States from Austria and Russia.[10] Portman's paternal grandparents, Mania (née Portman) and Zvi Yehuda Hershlag, were Jewish immigrants to Israel.[11][12] Zvi, born in Poland, moved to what was then Mandatory Palestine in 1938 and eventually became an economics professor. His parents died at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.[12] One of Portman's paternal great-grandmothers was born in Romania and was a spy for British Intelligence during World War II.[13][14]
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