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Samuel Vilozny
Shmuel "Shmulik" Vilozny (; born 10 January 1954) is an Israeli comedian, actor and director as well as a political activist. Early life Vilozny was born in Ramat Gan, Israel. His father Mordecai was a Holocaust survivor. Vilozny graduated from the Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts in 1979. Career Stand-up comedy Vilozny was one of the first stand up comedians in Israel who contributed tremendously to the flourishing of the Israeli stand-up scene in the mid-1980s after he founded a stand-up club in Tel Aviv called the " Camel Comedy Club" which hosted various stand-up shows regularly and from which some of the most popular comedians in Israel nowadays originally emerged. Vilozny became fascinated with stand up comedy after he saw a street stand up show for the first time in London during the 1980s. After his return to Israel, Vilozny began performing in various stand-up routines throughout Israel, which were considered innovative at the time and soon thereafter founded the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramat Gan
Ramat Gan (, ) is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel, located east of the municipality of Tel Aviv, and is part of the Gush Dan, Gush Dan metropolitan area. It is home to a Diamond Exchange District (one of the world's major diamond exchanges), Sheba Medical Center (the largest hospital in Israel) and many high-tech industries. Ramat Gan was established in 1921 as a moshava, a communal farming settlement. In it had a population of almost 200,000. History Ramat Gan was established by the ''Ir Ganim'' association in 1921 as a satellite town of Tel Aviv. The first plots of land were purchased between 1914 and 1918. It stood just south of the Arab village of Jarisha. The settlement was initially a moshava, a Zionist agricultural colony that grew wheat, barley and Watermelon, watermelons. The name of the settlement was changed to Ramat Gan (lit: ''Garden Height'') in 1923. The settlement continued to operate as a moshava until 1933, although it achieved local council (Isra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limor Goldstein
Limor () is a Hebrew female given name, as well as a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Limor Aharonson-Daniel, Israeli emergency preparedness expert * Limor Blockman (born 1977), Israeli-American glamour model, and television personality * Limor Fix, Israeli engineer * Limor Fried, American electrical engineer * Limor Friedman (born 1968), Israeli Olympic gymnast * Limor Livnat (born 1950), Israeli politician * Limor Mizrachi (born 1970), Israeli basketball player * Limor Magen Telem, Israeli politician * Limor Schreibman-Sharir (born 1954), Israeli writer * Limor Shifman, professor of communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem * Limor Shmerling Magazanik, Israeli data governance expert * Limor Son Har-Melech (born 1979), Israeli politician * Limor Zaltz (born 1973), Israeli tennis player Fictional characters *Limor, portrayed by Orna Banai Orna Banai (; born November 25, 1966) is an Israeli actress, comedian, entertainer, winner of the 2006 Israe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auschwitz
Auschwitz, or Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp (''Stammlager'') in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a concentration and extermination camp with gas chambers, Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labour camp for the chemical conglomerate IG Farben, and dozens of subcamps. The camps became a major site of the Nazis' Final Solution to the Jewish question. After Germany initiated World War II by invading Poland in September 1939, the '' Schutzstaffel'' (SS) converted Auschwitz I, an army barracks, into a prisoner-of-war camp. The initial transport of political detainees to Auschwitz consisted almost solely of Poles (for whom the camp was initially established). For the first two years, the majority of inmates were Polish. In May 1940, German criminals brought to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Deserter's Wife
''The Deserter's Wife'' () is a 1991 French- Israeli co-production dramatic independent underground art film directed by Michal Bat-Adam. Synopsis Nina (Fanny Ardant), a French concert pianist, meets Ilan ( Sharon Alexander), an Israeli computer specialist who is on vacation, in Paris. They fall in love, marry, and, move to Israel with their son, Gili (Daniele Napolitano). Not much later, Ilan is drafted into the Israeli military for compulsory military service, as the situation in the Middle East is worsening: Saddam Hussein has attacked Kuwait with his Iraqi forces and the Second Gulf War is imminent. After Nina is accepted into the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, she receives a call from the military and learns that her husband was wounded during a battle. She hurries to him and finds out, to her horror, that Ilan was not injured by enemy troops but by Israeli soldiers when he tried to leave his post illegally. While Ilan is wounded in a hospital and is unable to speak due to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michal Bat-Adam
Michal Bat-Adam (; born March 2, 1945) is an Israel, Israeli film director, producer, screenwriter, actress, and musician. Her films deal with complex and conflicted relationships, especially relationships within families. She also explores the line between sanity and Mental disorder, mental illness. Many of these movies contain autobiographical elements. As an actress, she has been noted for her work, especially for strong performances in the films of her husband, Moshé Mizrahi. Early life Michal Bat-Adam was born in Afula, Israel to parents Yemima and Adam Rubin, who had immigrated from Warsaw in 1939. While she was a young child, the family lived in Haifa. Yemima suffered from mental illness, and had trouble caring for her family. When Michal was six and a half years old, she was sent to join her older sister Netta at Kibbutz Merhavia (kibbutz), Merhavia in the Harod Valley. While living there, both sisters changed their last name to Bat-Adam ("daughter of Adam"). At 17, Mich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Ben-Amotz
Dan Ben-Amotz (; April 13, 1924 – October 20, 1989) was an Israeli radio broadcaster, journalist, playwright, and author, as well as a former Palmach member. Despite having immigrated from Poland in 1938, he was often considered the epitome of the "Sabra", a native born Israeli Jew. Biography Moshe Tehilimzeigger (later Dan Ben-Amotz) was born in Równe (then in Poland, now in Ukraine). He was sent to the British Mandate for Palestine by his parents in 1938. His parents were murdered in the Holocaust. In Palestine he was sent to Ben Shemen Youth Village, where his counselor was Shimon Peres. He changed his name to Moshe Shimony and later to Dan Ben-Amotz, feeling the latter had the right sabra sound. Reinventing his personal history to portray himself as a true native sabra, Ben-Amotz claimed to be an orphan who had relatives in some of the older Zionist settlements. In the 1940s, Ben-Amotz served in the Palmah and joined the Palyam during the 1947–48 Civil War in M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sefi Rivlin
Yosef "Sefi" Rivlin (; 7 November 1947 – 3 December 2013) was an Israeli actor and comedian. He was best known for his roles in the satire show ' ("Head Cleaning"), the children’s program '' Rega im Dodley'' and its spin-off ''.Israeli actor and comedian Sefi Rivlin passes away at age 66 jpost.com. 4 December 2013. Personal life and death Yosef "Sefi" Rivlin born and grew up in Nahalat Yehuda (present-day ). He born to the Rivlin family. He studied acting at the |
Dov Navon
DOV or Dov could refer to: ''דב'' or ''דוב'', a Hebrew male given name meaning "bear", from which the Yiddish name " Ber" (בער) was derived (cognate with "bear") which was common among East European Jews. People * Dov J. Elkabas (1968), Amsterdam (Dutch) born musician and producer * Dov Ber of Mezeritch (1700/1704/1710?–1772 OS), second leader and main architect of Hasidic Judaism * Dov Ber Abramowitz (1860–1926), American Orthodox rabbi and author * Dov Charney (born 1969), president and chief executive officer of clothing manufacturer American Apparel * Dov Feigin (1907–2000), Israeli sculptor * Dov Forman (born 2003), English born Author and social media star * Dov Frohman (born 1939), Israeli electrical engineer and business executive * Dov Gabbay (born 1945), logician and professor of logic and computer science * Dov Groverman (born 1965), Israeli Olympic wrestler * Dov Grumet-Morris (born 1982), American ice hockey player * Dov Gruner (1912–1947), Jewish Zion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anat Waxman
Anat Waxman (; born 26 June 1961) is an Israeli actress and comedian. Biography Born in Jaffa, Waxman and her family relocated to Jerusalem when she was five years old, where she spent the remainder of her childhood. Through her father, her family originated in Jerusalem for ten generations and she is a descendant of Shneur Zalman of Liadi while her mother emigrated to Israel from Iraq. While in high school, she took part as a presenter on a television youth program and eventually, she moved to Tel Aviv and studied at Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts. On stage, Waxman started out acting at the Beersheba Theatre in 1986 and was featured in a number of plays and performances. She has also acted at the Cameri Theatre, the Haifa Theatre and the Beit Lessin Theatre and starred in numerous adaptations of plays such as '' Don Juan Comes Back From The War'', ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', ''The House of Bernarda Alba'', '' The Bourgeois Gentleman'', ''A Doll's House'' and many mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oshik Levy
Oshik Levi (; born April 7, 1944) is an Israeli singer, actor, and entertainer. Biography Oshik Levi started his career in the late 1960s as a rock singer, first in the group ''Shlishiyat Ha-Te'omim'' (Hebrew: שלישיית התאומים, lit. "The Twins Trio") and then as a solo artist, gaining fame for such songs as ''Ha-Ballada la-shoter Azulay'' ("The Ballad of Officer Azoulay" – the theme song for Ephraim Kishon's film ''Ha-Shoter Azoulay'',(released as "The Policeman" in English language markets), ''Hoze Lech Brach'' ("Seer, go and flee" – based on a verse in the biblical Book of Amos), and ''Yonatan Sa Ha-Baita'' ("Yonatan, Go Home" by Yonatan Geffen). In the 1980s, Levi starred in the Israeli children's show Bli Sodot, alongside Hanny Nahmias, Nathan Nathanson and Hanan Goldblatt. He is probably best remembered by American audiences for his uncredited role as the Good Thief on the cross in the 1979 Jesus Film. In 2005, a song on the debut album by the British B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uri Gavriel
Uri Gavriel () is an Israeli theater, film and television actor. Winner of the Ophir Award and Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2005 as Best Actor in film ''What a Wonderful Place''. In 2018, he appeared as Philip the Apostle in Helen Edmundson's film ''Mary Magdalene. Early life Gavriel was born in Magdiel, Israel, to Mizrahi Jewish immigrant parents from Iraq. Filmography References External links * *Uri Gavriel' at Rotten Tomatoes *Uri Gavriel' at The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Gavriel, Uri 1955 births Living people Israeli male film actors Israeli film directors Israeli people of Iraqi-Jewish descent Israeli Mizrahi Jews Israeli male television actors Jewish Israeli male actors Ophir Award winners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alon Abutbul
Alon Moni Abutbul (or Aboutboul, ; born 28 May 1965) is an Israeli actor. He won the IFFI Best Actor Award (Male) at the 44th International Film Festival of India. Early life Abutbul was born in Kiryat Ata, Israel, to a Mizrahi Jewish family from Egypt and Algeria. He attended the Thelma Yellin High School of Arts in Givatayim. His older brother is Avraham Abutbul. Cinematic career 1980s After graduating from Thelma Yellin High School in 1983, Abutbul appeared in the Israeli film ''Hapnimiyah''. In 1985 Abutbul starred in the movie '' Bar 51'' directed by Amos Guttman alongside Mosko Alkalai and Smadar Kilchinsky, and took part in the Israeli film ''Battle of the Chairmanship'' in which he played alongside the popular Israeli comedy group HaGashash HaHiver. In 1986 Abutbul appeared in the film ''Malkat Hakitah''. Abutbul's first role in a big popular film was in 1986 when he was cast in the Israeli movie ''Shtei Etzbaot Mi'Tzidon'' (''Two Fingers from Sidon''), a film whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
