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Topol was born on 9 September 1935 in Tel Aviv, Palestine [now Israel]. He was an actor and producer, known for Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Flash Gordon (1980) and For Your Eyes Only (1981). He was married to Galia Topol. He died on 8 March 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Producer
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Menahem Golan was born Menahem Globus to parents of Polish decent in Tiberias, Israel, in May 1929. In his early years, he was a pilot for the fledgling Israeli Air Force, changing his surname to Golan for patriotic reasons in 1948. A few years later, he took the first step towards his future career by attending the Old Vic Theatre School in London. After returning to Israel, he produced for theater, until joining producer Roger Corman as an assistant on The Young Racers (1963). Golan's debut film in partnership with his younger cousin Yoram Globus was El Dorado (1963). The two cousins set up Noah Films to produce for the Israeli market. Golan's role was as producer and the creative partner, with Globus as the financial expert. The company was first recognized overseas when its production Sallah Shabati (1964) won an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film and then won the Golden Globe in the same category in 1965. However, the cousins were desperate to break into the international market. Some of their films had been picked up for distribution in America, such as Kazablan (1973) by MGM, but this was not enough.
In 1979 the pair bought control of a failing production company, The Cannon Group Inc., from Dennis Friedland and Christopher C. Dewey, and it was this company that gave them international renown. Under their control, the Cannon Group grew from a small company making a few obscure pictures a year to a studio that produced 35 pictures in 1987 alone. They developed a large, independent, and international empire, with production, distribution, and exhibition interests across Europe. Golan and Globus hit their peak with Cannon in the mid-1980s, signing Sylvester Stallone for a record US$13 million in 1983 for Over the Top (1987) and purchasing the UK's Thorn-EMI Screen Entertainment in 1986. This last deal led to their ownership of the ABC cinema circuit and Elstree Studios in Britain. However, by 1987, the money was starting to run out. Many of their movies were not making enough at the box office despite the cousins' wide cinema ownership, and they had taken on a lot of debt during their rapid growth, making more expensive pictures in the process. They were initially rescued by Warner Bros., which took distribution rights to Cannon's better films--for example, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), based on a character that Warner already owned--and also took an interest in some of its assets. The end of Cannon came in 1989 when, virtually bankrupt, the company was bought by the now-disgraced financier Giancarlo Parretti and renamed Pathé Communications (after the new MGM-Pathé collapsed in 1992, Globus produced pictures with Christopher Pearce, which were released under a resurrected Cannon Pictures label. The last of these was American Cyborg: Steel Warrior (1993) before the company folded for good).
Golan fell out with Parretti and Globus, leaving Pathé, and starting 21st Century Pictures. He produced a number of films that received widespread distribution, such as Death Wish: The Face of Death (1994) and Captain America (1990), but by the mid-1990s this company had folded, too. Golan's name was later linked with other new companies, such as International Dynamic Pictures and Magic Entertainment, and he rejoined cousin Yoram for both. However, the two soon fell out again and went their separate ways, with Golan writing and directing for other producers in the interim. Golan's latest company is New Cannon Inc., and his recent works include Crime and Punishment (2002) and Return from India (2002). Unfortunately for his fans, it now seems unlikely that Golan will recreate the success of his heyday. Menahem Golan has long been criticized (sometimes unfairly) for an emphasis on quantity rather than quality. It's true that some of the movies he has produced have been laughable or unwatchable. However, now out of the limelight of a critical industry, some of his company's once-derided films have achieved cult status, such as Mona Lisa (1986), Godfrey Reggio's Powaqqatsi (1988), and the "Lemon Popsicle" series. Golan's ongoing drive, energy, and past contribution to the world of cinema will undoubtedly and belatedly be recognized for the achievement this represents.- Lisa Golm was born Luise Schmertzler and married Ernst (Ernest) Golm who would later become a character actor with her in Hollywood, but had his first career as a dentist catering to some of the movie stars in Berlin in the late 1920s and 30s. Lisa studied theater as a hobby with Conrad Veidt. When she and Ernst fled Nazi Germany in the late 1930s and settled in Southern California, her husband continued his dental career from Beverly Hills while Lisa put her acting training to use with the increasing demand for German accented and other ethnic bits in films as the USA advanced toward World War II. When her first film, Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939), opened, members of the Golm family in different parts of the US took the day off work to see her on the big screen. Lisa and Ernest (who made far fewer film appearances and no TV) were together in two movies, The Hitler Gang (1944) and Mission to Moscow (1943). Lisa was the type who enjoyed mingling with the society set, so it was ironic she was often cast as maids. Her family nickname, the red broomstick, because she was tall, thin, and had red hair, can best be understood if one sees one of her few color films such as Rhapsody (1954). After Ernest died Lisa retired and moved to Israel.
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Born in Jerusalem November 4th, 1929. Fourth generation Israeli. Educated at "Alliance" school of Jerusalem. In his teens studied at "Haohel" Theatre Studio. At the age of 15 joined the "Palmach" underground forces and participated in safeguarding the convoys to Jerusalem. Also fought at the "Palyam" (Palmach's Naval section), where he met Dan Ben-Amotz, who was very impressed with his comic talents, and appointed him to his friend Haim Heffer, founder of the "The Cheezbatron", the Palmach's entertainment troupe. Ophir was the first person asked to contribute his multi-talents to the band and became its undisputed star. Besides his many comic pieces, he became a musical performer, singing the band's first songs: "Dahilak Motke" with Naomi Polani, "Inyan Shel Offi" (A matter of character) with Rivka Kramer and "Ani Akiva". He met his first spouse, the singer Ohela Halevi at The Cheezbatron.
Was invited by Marlene Dietrich to join her in creating a show. The great actress also designated him words of admiration in a book written by her. Life magazine defined him as standing in line with Marcel Marceau as one of the world's best mime artists.- Born in Solingen, Germany, in 1906, Adolf Eichmann was the son of a moderately successful Austrian businessman and industrialist. In 1914 his family moved to Linz, Austria. During World War I Eichmann's father was a soldier, and returned to the family business in Linz at the war's conclusion in 1918. His family moved to Germany in 1920. When he came of age in 1925 he briefly returned to Austria to study mechanical engineering, but eventually dropped out of college because he was a poor student. He followed in his father's footsteps and became a businessman, working as a traveling salesman, which brought him back to Germany in 1930. His first contact with the Nazi party was when he joined the Wandervogel movement, an anti-Semitic, Aryan-brotherhood type of organization popular with the less-educated segments of German society. In 1932 Eichmann again returned to Austria, where he formally joined the Austrian Nazi Party. On the advice of an old family friend, Ernst Kaltenbrunner--himself soon to become an important Nazi official--Eichmann also joined the Austrian branch of the SS, enlisting on April 1, 1932, and being accepted as a full member that November, assigned the SS number 45326. For the next year Eichmann was a member of the part-time Allgemeine-SS (General SS) with the rank of private, based in Salzburg. In 1933, when the Nazis came to power in Germany, Eichmann returned there and submitted an application to join the full-time SS. This was accepted and, in November of 1933, he was promoted to Scharführer (Sergeant) and assigned to the administrative staff of the Dachau concentration camp. By 1934 he had decided to make the SS his career and requested transfer into the SS-Security Police which had, by that time, become a powerful and much feared organization. His transfer was granted in November of 1934, and he was promoted to the rank of Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant) and assigned to the headquarters of the Sicherheitdienst (SD) in Berlin. Eichmann became a model administrator in the SD and quickly became noticed by his superiors. In 1937 he was commissioned an SS-Second Lieutenant (Untersturmführer) and, one year later, sent back to Austria to help organize SS security forces in Vienna after the 1938 annexation of Austria into Germany. His efforts resulted in his being promoted to SS-First Lieutenant (Obersturmführer). At the end of 1938 Eichmann was selected by the SS leadership to form the Central Office for Jewish Emigration, which was set up to forcibly deport and expel Jews from Austria. By this time he had become a student of Judaism, finding the religion fascinating as he had, for several years, been harboring deep-seated anti-Semitic tendencies and a virulent hatred of the Jewish faith. At the start of the Second World War Eichmann was an SS-Captain (Hauptsturmführer) and had made a name for himself because of his operation of the Office for Jewish Emigration. He had even been sponsored by the SS Race and Settlement Office to take a trip to Palestine and study aspects of the Jewish homeland. Ironically, through this work, Eichmann made several contacts in the Zionist movement which he worked with to speed up Jewish emigration from the Reich. In 1939 his office was expanded to cover the entire German Reich, and in 1940 Eichmann was transferred from the SD to the Gestapo and promoted to SS-Major (SS-Sturmbannführer). By 1941 he had been promoted again, this time to the rank of Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel), and was the commander of the Jewish Division of the Gestapo Religions Department in the Reich Central Security Office of the SS (the code for Eichmann's position was "RSHA/IV-B4"). In 1942 Eichmann was personally invited by Reinhard Heydrich to attend the Wannsee Conference, where Germany's anti-Jewish measures were developed into an official policy of extermination, which the Germans euphemistically called "The Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Eichmann was tasked as "Transportation Administrator", meaning he was in charge of all the trains that would carry Jews to the death camps in Poland. For the next two years he performed his duties with incredible zeal and efficiency, often times bragging that he had personally sent over five million Jews to their deaths by way of his trains. His work had been noticed and, in 1944, he was sent to Hungary after Germany had occupied that country to forestall a possible Soviet invasion. He at once went to work deporting Hungarian Jews, resulting in some 200,000 to 400,000 of them meeting their deaths in the Nazi gas chambers.
By 1945, however, Eichmann's world--as was that of the Nazi regime he so loyally and faithfully served--was collapsing, and SS Reich Leader Heinrich Himmler had ordered that Jewish extermination be halted and all evidence of the "Final Solution" be destroyed. Eichmann blatantly defied Himmler's orders and continued his work in Hungary. He was also working to avoid being called up in the last-ditch German military effort, since a year before he had been commissioned a Reserve Lieutenant in the Waffen-SS and had been ordered to active combat duty. Eichmann fled Hungary as the Russians invaded and returned to Austria, where he met up with his old friend Kaltenbrunner. Kaltenbrunner, however, refused to associate with him, since Eichmann's duties as an extermination administrator had certainly branded him a marked man by the Allies, and Kaltenbrunner himself was in enough trouble because of his own activities. As World War II ended Eichmann went into hiding, being briefly captured by American troops but managing to escape by using a false name and claiming to be a demobilized German soldier. He was able to secure passage to South America and left Germany at the start of 1947. He settled in Buenos Aires, Argentina, under the name of Ricardo Clement and, for the next 15 years, worked in various odd jobs, from factory foreman to junior water engineer to professional rabbit farmer. He had also brought his family to Argentina and started a completely new life. Eichmann's days of safety in Argentina were numbered, however, because in 1960 the Israeli Mossad--the national intelligence service--had learned that he was in Argentina, and a plan was put in place to locate his exact whereabouts in order to capture him and spirit him back to Israel. When the Israelis finally located him, he was seized, smuggled out of the country to Israel and put on trial in April of 1961 (the Israelis didn't go through normal diplomatic channels because they believed that the Argentine government, which had long been accused of providing a safe haven for wanted Nazi war criminals, would refuse to turn him over). He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to death. Adolf Eichmann was hanged on June 1, 1962, at the age of 56 and his ashes scattered at sea, so that no nation would serve as his final resting place. - Actor
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Yosef Shiloach was born on 9 July 1941 in Kurdistan, Iran. He was an actor and writer, known for Rambo III (1988), Desperado Square (2001) and Private Popsicle (1982). He died on 3 January 2011 in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Actor
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Assi Dayan was born on 23 November 1945 in Moshav Nahalal, British Mandate of Palestine [now Israel]. He was an actor and writer, known for Life According to Agfa (1992), Mr. Baum (1997) and Electric Blanket (1994). He was married to Aarona Malkind, Vered Tandler-Dayan, Caroline Langford and Smadar Kilchinsky. He died on 1 May 2014 in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Born of Ukrainian Jewish immigrant parents in Palestine in 1915, Moshe Dayan joined the Haganah (Defense) the underground Jewish army in Palestine in 1929 with aimed to protect Jewish people from harassment and violence from the Muslim Palestinian population with resented Jewish presense in Palestine. In 1937 Dayan became a sergeant with the Jewish settlement police mobile unit and within a year launched raids against occupying British and local Palestinian troops. Within a year he was captured and imprisoned, but released in 1941 with an offer to join the British army in Palestine in fighting the pro-nazi Vichy French and Arab and German allies. It was during an early engagement in Lebanon that Dayan lost his left eye in combat. Dayan spent the rest of the war recovering from his wounds and slight seeing loss. In 1947 he became an officer in the Haganah for local Arab affairs and in 1948, at the start of the Israeli War for Independence, Dayan became a Colonel in the Israeli Army and saw many actions throughtout 1948. In 1952 Dayan became Chief of Operations in the Israeli army and in 1956 saw the highlight of his military career with the Sinai Campaign against Egypt (October 29-November 5) which his forces captured Sinai and the Gaza Strip. In 1958 he retired from active duty and spent time as a writer, journalist and military advisor. In 1967 Dayan became Minister of Defense for Israel which he was one of those who mastermined the decisive Six-Day War (June 5-10) against Egypt, Jordan and Syria which Israel again won the Sinai, Gaza Strip, as well as the West Bank of Jordan and the Golan Heights. Critized for the Israeli's army unreadness for the Yom Kipper War of 1973 (October 6-24) Dayan resigned as Minster of Defense on June 3, 1974. From 1977 to 1979 he was the Foreign Minster of Israel which he helped negotiate the final peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. Living from then on in virtual retirement, Moshe Dayan died in 1981.
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Meshulam Riklis was born on 2 December 1923 in Istanbul, Turkey. He was an actor, known for Fake-Out (1982), The Chosen (1981) and Butterfly (1981). He was married to Tali Sinai Riklis, Pia Zadora and Judith Stern. He died on 25 January 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Actor
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Arik Einstein was born on 3 January 1939 in Tel Aviv, Palestine [now Israel]. He was an actor and writer, known for Florentine (1997), Metzitzim (1972) and Lo Kolel Sherut (1990). He was married to Sima Eliyahu and Alona Einstein. He died on 26 November 2013 in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Actress
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Geula Nuni was born on 6 September 1942 in Israel. She was an actress, known for Sallah Shabati (1964), Blue Natalie (2010) and A Night in Tiberias (1965). She died on 9 November 2014 in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Menachem Begin was an Israeli politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. Before the creation of the state of Israel, he was the leader of the Zionist militant group Irgun, the Revisionist breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah. He proclaimed a revolt, on 1 February 1944, against the British mandatory government, which was opposed by the Jewish Agency. As head of the Irgun, he targeted the British in Palestine. Later, the Irgun fought the Arabs during the 1947-48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine and its chief Begin was also noted as "leader of the notorious terrorist organization" by the British government and banned from entering the United Kingdom.
- Ophelia Shtruhl was born on 7 September 1940 in Katuna, Romania. She was an actress, known for Lemon Popsicle (1978), The Angel Was a Devil (1976) and Free Man's Blood or the Sykariki (1970). She died on 4 April 2022 in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Joel Silberg was born on 30 March 1927 in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine. He was a director and writer, known for Hershele (1977), Lambada (1990) and The Simhon Family (1964). He died on 18 February 2013 in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Writer
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Moshé Mizrahi was born on 5 September 1930 in Alexandria, Egypt. He was a writer and director, known for Madame Rosa (1977), The Customer of the Off Season (1970) and I Sent a Letter to My Love (1980). He was married to Michal Bat-Adam and Rahel Fabian. He died on 3 August 2018 in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Michael Shillo was born on 23 August 1920 in Israel. He was an actor, known for No Way Out (1987), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) and Masada (1981). He died on 25 January 2007 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Shmuel Rodensky was born on 10 December 1904 in Smorgon, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire [now Smarhon, Grodno Oblast, Belarus]. He was an actor, known for The Odessa File (1974), Tuvia Vesheva Benotav (1968) and Moses the Lawgiver (1974). He was married to Nyura Shein. He died on 18 July 1989 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- At the age of 20, he emigrated to Palestine, where Ben-Gurion worked on farms and joined the Zionist movement. From 1910 he called himself David Ben-Gurion. He subsequently also studied law at the universities of Constantinople and Salonika. Because of his Zionist views, Ben-Gurion was then expelled from Palestine by the Turkish government. After the outbreak of World War I, Ben-Gurion joined a Jewish battalion in the British army to fight for the liberation of Palestine from Turkish rule.
After the war, his socialist convictions led him to join the ranks of the Jewish Workers' Movement, for which Ben-Gurion served as general secretary in Palestine under the British mandate from 1921 to 1935. In 1930 he was also promoted to head of the socialist "Mapai" party. In 1933, Ben-Gurion was accepted into the leadership of the World Zionist Organization. From 1935 to 1948, Ben-Gurion presided over the Jewish Agency, the most important Jewish representative body during the British mandate over Palestine. In this role, Ben-Gurion gained important experience in local self-government and in diplomatic exchanges with the British authorities.
The "Jewish Agency" and its chairman were therefore considered the core of the political leadership elite of a future state of Israel. Indeed, after Israel's proclamation in May 1948, Ben-Gurion rose to become its first prime minister. The conflicts with the Arab world that immediately followed prevented his government from fully implementing the economic policy program that the statesman had prepared to promote industry and agriculture. Nevertheless, Ben-Gurion was able to promote significant infrastructure measures and the economic use of natural resources.
After the statesman initially withdrew from politics in 1963, just two years later he joined a splinter group that had split off from the "Mapai" party. This political commitment was followed by his final withdrawal into private life in 1970. He has since been recognized as one of the founding fathers of the State of Israel. In 1973 he published the book "Israel, the History of a State".
David Ben-Gurion died on December 1, 1973 in Tel Aviv. - Actor
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Amos Lavi was born in 1935 in Tripoli, Libya. He was an actor, known for Munich (2005), Women (1996) and Ha-E (2007). He died on 9 November 2010 in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Amos Oz was born on 4 May 1939 in Jerusalem, Palestine [now Israel]. He was a writer, known for A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015), Black Box (1993) and My Michael (1974). He was married to Nily Zuckerman. He died on 28 December 2018 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Yitzhak Rabin was an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974-77, and from 1992 until his assassination in 1995.
Rabin was born in Jerusalem to Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and was raised in a Labor Zionist household. He learned agriculture in school and excelled as a student. He led a 27-year career as a soldier and ultimately attained the rank of Rav Aluf. As a teenager he joined the Palmach, the commando force of the Yishuv. He eventually rose through its ranks to become its chief of operations during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. He joined the newly formed Israel Defense Forces in late 1948 and continued to rise as a promising officer. He helped shape the training doctrine of the IDF in the early 1950s, and led the IDF's Operations Directorate from 1959 to 1963. He was appointed Chief of the General Staff in 1964 and oversaw Israel's victory in the 1967 Six-Day War.
Rabin served as Israel's ambassador to the United States from 1968 to 1973, during a period of deepening U.S.-Israel ties. He was appointed Prime Minister of Israel in 1974 after the resignation of Golda Meir. In his first term, Rabin signed the Sinai Interim Agreement and ordered the Entebbe raid. He resigned in 1977 in the wake of a financial scandal. Rabin was Israel's minister of defense for much of the 1980s, including during the outbreak of the First Intifada.
In 1992, Rabin was re-elected as prime minister on a platform embracing the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. He signed several historic agreements with the Palestinian leadership as part of the Oslo Accords. In 1994, Rabin won the Nobel Peace Prize together with long-time political rival Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Rabin also signed a peace treaty with Jordan in 1994. In November 1995, he was assassinated by an extremist named Yigal Amir, who opposed the terms of the Oslo Accords. Amir was convicted of Rabin's murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Rabin was the first native-born prime minister of Israel and was the only prime minister to be assassinated and the second to die in office after Levi Eshkol. Rabin has become a symbol of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.- Hanna Maron was born on 22 November 1923 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Krovim Krovim (1983), Sof Shavua be-Galil (2007) and Handsome Gigolo, Poor Gigolo (1930). She was married to Yossi Yadin and Jacob Rechter. She died on 30 May 2014 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Tomer Shechori was born on 22 February 1985 in Tel Aviv, Israel. He was an actor and producer, known for Life of the Party (2010), Beloved Pussy (2009) and The Workshop (2010). He died on 16 July 2018 in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Menahem Einy was born on 27 October 1949 in Petah Tikva, Israel. He was an actor, known for Zohar (1993), The Delta Force (1986) and The Band (1978). He was married to Sharon Einy. He died on 3 December 2002 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Mikhail Kozakov was born on 14 October 1934 in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]. He was an actor and director, known for Amphibian Man (1961), Ten (1991) and Vsya korolevskaya rat (1971). He was married to Anna Yampolskaya, Anastasiya Vertinskaya and Greta Taar. He died on 22 April 2011 in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Gili Ben-Ozilio was born on 18 January 1963 in Jerusalem, Israel. She was an actress, known for Ha-Yeladim Mi'Givat Napoleon (2001), The Arbitrator (2007) and Not Without My Daughter (1991). She was married to Amitay Yaish Ben Ousilio and Gil Frank. She died on 6 January 2009 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Amos Guttman was born on 10 May 1954 in Transilvania, Romania. He was a director and writer, known for Amazing Grace (1992), Drifting (1982) and Bar 51 (1986). He died on 16 February 1993 in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Actor
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Yosef Carmon was born on 14 June 1933 in Israel. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Epilogue (2012), Kastner Trial (1994) and La cage de verre (1965). He was married to ??? and Tami Eshel Korman. He died on 2 March 2022 in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Actor
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Yossi Banai was born on 13 April 1932 in Jerusalem, Palestine. He was an actor, known for The Patriots (1994), 999 Aliza: The Policeman (1967) and Ervinka (1967). He was married to Ilana and Aviva Banai. He died on 11 May 2006 in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Actor
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Gideon Singer was born on 29 June 1926 in Brno, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Woman in Gold (2015), Jailbirds (1996) and 5 and 5 (1980). He was married to Shira. He died on 11 May 2015 in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Dvora Kedar was born on 8 June 1924 in Vilnius, Lithuania. She was an actress, known for Lemon Popsicle (1978), Fire Birds (2015) and The Revenge of Itzik Finkelstein (1993). She was married to Yitzhak Helter. She died on 17 May 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Mosko Alkalai was born on 10 March 1931 in Bucharest, Romania. He was an actor, known for Yana's Friends (1999), The Delta Force (1986) and No Names on the Doors (1997). He died on 1 April 2008 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Rose Lichtenstein was born on 26 March 1887. She was an actress, known for Der Würger der Welt (1920), Freitag, der 13. - Das unheimliche Haus, 2. Teil (1916) and Die Japanerin (1919). She died on 22 December 1955 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Ya'ackov Ben-Sira was born on 20 March 1927 in Brussels, Belgium. He was an actor, known for The Jesus Film (1979), Lend Me Your Wife (1988) and Sahara (1983). He died on 4 February 2016 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Janek Dresner was born on 4 September 1923 in Poland. He was married to Helen Dresner. He died on 18 April 2016 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Avner Hizkiyahu was born on 22 November 1926 in Kazanlak, Bulgaria. He was an actor, known for Rachel's Man (1975), The Pill (1972) and Belfer (1978). He died on 28 April 1994 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Nissim Azikri was born on 7 August 1939 in Varna, Bulgaria. He was an actor and writer, known for Fifty Fifty (1971), Fantasy on a Romantic Theme (1977) and The Pill (1972). He was married to Aliza Azikri. He died on 3 February 1990 in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Actor
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Amos Shoov was born on 31 March 1967 in Israel. He was an actor and writer, known for Munich (2005), The Benny Zinger Show (1993) and Downtown Precinct (2011). He died on 15 June 2015 in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Actor
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Tzvi Shissel was born on 15 July 1946 in Israel. He was an actor and director, known for Kvalim (1992), Crazy Camera (1989) and Lemon Popsicle: The Party Goes On (2001). He died on 28 July 2021 in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Director
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Judd Ne'eman was born on 3 October 1936 in Tel Aviv, Israel. He was a director and producer, known for Fellow Travellers (1983), Paratroopers (1977) and The Dress (1969). He was married to Talma Hendler. He died on 26 September 2021 in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Actress
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Zaharira Harifai was born in December 1929 in Jaffa, Palestine [now Tel Aviv, Israel]. She was an actress, known for Jellyfish (2007), 5 and 5 (1980) and Sallah Shabati (1964). She was married to Shlomo Shva. She died on 2 January 2013 in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Mona Silberstein was born on 30 November 1947 in Tel Aviv, Israel. She was an actress, known for Azit Hakalba Hatzanhanit (1972), Operation Thunderbolt (1977) and Saint Cohen (1975). She was married to Amnon Israeli. She died on 31 March 1988 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Natan Cogan was born on 14 May 1914 in Baku, Russian Empire [now Azerbaijan]. He was an actor, known for Operation Thunderbolt (1977), Rashevski's Tango (2003) and A Night in Tiberias (1965). He died on 15 April 2009 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Schwartz moved to the U.S. in 1902 and in 1926 founded the Yiddish Art Theatre in New York. Also in 1926, Schwartz starred in and directed his first film, Broken Hearts (1926). His best known Hollywood film role was that of Ezra in the 1953 production of Salome (1953). In 1959, Schwartz traveled to Israel hoping to establish a theatre there, but he passed away after staging only one production. In 1991, Schwartz's film Tevya (1939) was selected by the Library Of Congress to be added to the National Film Registry as one of the great American films of all time.- Director
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David Perlov was born on 9 May 1930 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was a director and writer, known for Meetings with Nathan Zach (1996), The Pill (1972) and Updated Diary 1990-1999 (2001). He died on 13 December 2003 in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Writer
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Born in Prague, Austria-Hungary on 27 May, 1884, Max Brod had an extensive writing career between 1908 and 1965 with more than 80 works published, ranging from fiction to plays, biographies and one appearance as an actor in the silent film Die Strecke (1927). However, Brod has a special place in history not simply because of his works but above all, for spreading the words, the intelligence and wisdom of one of the greatest minds of the 20th century, his friend Franz Kafka.
Kafka & Brod first met in 1902 and developed a great friendship with the Czech author, both regular presences on the literary circles of Germany. At the time Kafka had a work on an insurance agency and he was very insecure of his own writing, never publishing and never trying to establish himself as a professional writer. On the other hand, Brod (a law student working on civil services and frequently involved with the literary world and social/political causes) always kept encouraging Kafka to publish everything, telling how brilliant and special his writings were but the friend asked the man to destroy and burn all of his works in case of his death, quite near due to his constant poor health. Kafka died in 1924, and his memorable literary works such as "The Trial", "The Metamorphosis", "A Hunger Artist", "The Castle" were all posthumously published thanks to Max Brod, who acted as administrator of the Kafka estate.
The genius of Kafka's works is that it reveals life and reality as an existentialist process of endless suffering, questions without answers, dark sense of humor, nihilism and thoughts that were very on the current wave of its time in the early years of the 20th century, which Brod easily perceived as mandatory works to see the light of day and conquer audiences. By not keeping his promise to Kafka, Brod gave to the world of arts important pieces of reflection and inspiration.
Like Kafka, he was a Czech of Jewish decent (and both always wrote their productions in the German language) and along with his wife Elsa Taussig he fled from Prague when the Nazis took over power in the late 1930's. They moved to Palestine but by that time Max wasn't producing much works. He died on 20 December, 1968, in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Actress
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Shoshana Damari was born in 1923 in Dhamar, Yemen. She was an actress, known for Hill 24 Doesn't Answer (1955), Without Home (1956) and Big Brother Israel (2008). She died on 14 February 2006 in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Shabtai Konorti was born in 1943 in Bulgaria. He was an actor, known for Schindler's List (1993), Hellbound (1994) and The Dybbuk of the Holy Apple Field (1997). He died on 27 May 2002 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Galia Ishai was born on 17 May 1950 in Tel Aviv, Israel. She was an actress, known for Ha-Chevre Ha-Tovim (1999), Antenna (2016) and Am Yisrael Hai (1981). She died on 4 January 2020 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Yossi Yadin was born on 7 June 1920 in Jerusalem, Palestine. He was an actor, known for Lies My Father Told Me (1975), Hill 24 Doesn't Answer (1955) and Stop Train 349 (1963). He was married to Hanna Maron. He died on 17 May 2001 in Tel Aviv, Israel.