Yael Shelbia

Yael Shelbia Cohen

She uses her middle name Shelbia as her professional surname, which was inherited from her Djerbian great-grandmother's family that is of both Mizrahi Jewish and Sephardi Jewish (Tunisian-Jewish) descent.

As of 2020, Shelbia has served as a soldier in the Israeli Air Force of the Israel Defense Forces, rather than serving in the Sherut Leumi as a civilian. She says she had lost many modeling contracts back then, due to her keeping of the Sabbath and choices in clothing. In 2019, Shelbia was chosen to lead Kylie Jenner's Biotic Skincare range.

Also in 2019, she was cast for her debut acting role in a television series about the real-life Israeli Palmach forces. It is a teen adventure period drama series set in 1946, two pivotal years before the State of Israel was founded.

In 2020, the magazine TC Candler named Shelbia the most beautiful woman in the world. Shelbia previously appeared on the list's rankings in 2017, 2018, and 2019.

Personal life From 2018 to 2019, she was in a relationship with the model .

From 2019 to 2022, she was in a relationship with the American-Jewish billionaire Brandon Korff, son of Rabbi Yitzhak Aharon Korff, and grandson of billionaire Sumner Redstone.

In 2022, Shelbia began a relationship with singer Omer Adam, with whom she had been in a relationship previously. In May 2023, after about half a year in Dubai, they returned to live in Israel. In 2025, the couple separated.