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Portman was born in , Israel.She is the only child of Shelley (née Stevens), an American homemaker who works as Portman's agent, and Avner Hershlag, an Israeli citizen who is a fertility specialist and gynecologist. Portman's maternal ancestors were immigrants to the United States, from Austria and Russia (her mother's family had changed their surname from "Edelstein" to "Stevens"). Her paternal grandparents were Jews who moved to Israel from and . Her paternal grandfather, whose parents died at z, was an economics professor in Israel, and her Romanian-born great-grandmother was a for during World War II.Portman's parents met at a Jewish student center at , where her mother was selling tickets. They corresponded after her father returned to Israel, and were married