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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.- Actor
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Paul L. Smith was born on 24 June 1936 in Everett, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Maverick (1994), Popeye (1980) and Dune (1984). He was married to Eve Smith. He died on 25 April 2012 in Ra'anana, Israel.- Chana Eden was born on 23 November 1932 in Szczebrzeszyn, Poland. She was an actress, known for Wind Across the Everglades (1958), The Rifleman (1958) and Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963). She was married to Roy Jordan. She died on 30 March 2019 in Rosh Pina, Israel.
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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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Aharon Ipalé was born on 27 December 1941 in Morocco. He was an actor, known for The Mummy (1999), The Mummy Returns (2001) and Fiddler on the Roof (1971). He died on 27 June 2016 in Tel Hashomer, 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.- Actress
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Ofra Haza was born on 19 November 1957 in Tel Aviv, Israel. She was an actress and composer, known for The Prince of Egypt (1998), American Psycho (2000) and Head-On (2004). She was married to Doron Ashkenazi. She died on 23 February 2000 in Ramat Gan, Israel.- Actress
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Born in Beershaba in 1964, Ronit was an awkward child who felt she was different from others, but when she became an actress (more or less by chance at the age of 26) with a star role in Daniel Wachsmann's 'Hameyu'ad' ['The Appointed (1990)'], this complex became an asset. This beautiful brunette realized she could relate to the rest of the world by expressing her inner emotions. Since then she has made few films, but many of major importance such as Late Marriage (2001) (by Dover Koshashvili), Alila (2003) (by Amos Gitai and Or (My Treasure) (2004) (by Keren Yedaya), in which she embodies wives, prostitutes or dope fiends marked by life. She has even co-scripted and co-directed the excellent 'Ve'lakahta Lekha Isha' ['To Take a Wife (2004)'] with her brother Schlomi. Both are preparing the second part due to be filmed in 2008, 'Seven Days' [Shiva (2008)]. She was wonderful in the recent The Band's Visit (2007) ('The Band's Visit') as a kind-hearted lonely heart refusing to wilt in her desert town.- Actor
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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.- 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.- 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. - Niko Nitai was born on 22 December 1931 in Bucharest, Romania. He was an actor, known for New Media Bible, The: The Gospel According to St. Luke (1979), The Jesus Film (1979) and Hellbound (1994). He died on 23 March 2020 in Israel.
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Uri Zohar was born on 4 November 1935 in Tel Aviv, Israel. He was an actor and director, known for Metzitzim (1972), Three Days and a Child (1967) and Every Bastard a King (1968). He was married to Elia Zohar and Ilana Rovina. He died on 2 June 2022 in Jerusalem, 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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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.- Soundtrack
She initially grew up in Pinsk. However, due to the anti-Jewish riots in Russia, the family emigrated to the USA in 1906, where they set up a small business in Milwaukee (Wisconsin). At the age of 14, Mabovitch ran away from home to live with her older sister in Denver. There in 1915 she came into contact with a socialist wing of the Zionist movement, which called the "Poale Zion" movement in the USA and advocated the establishment of an equal Jewish society in Palestine. In 1917 she married Morris Meyerson, whose name was Hebraized to "Meir" in 1956. In 1921 the couple emigrated to Palestine, where they joined Kibbutz Merhavia. In 1922 they moved to Jerusalem, where their first child, Menachem, was born a year later.
In 1928, Meir was appointed secretary of the Workers' Council of Histradut, the Jewish Workers' Union of Palestine. From 1932 to 1934 she worked as a representative of the women's organization in the USA. During this time she separated from her husband, who died in 1951. After her return, Meir was accepted into the Histadrut's executive committee in 1934 and made head of the political department. During the Second World War she was a member of the War Economic Advisory Board set up by the British Mandate Government for Palestine. In the last years of the British mandate after the war, Meir was the most important representative of the Jewish cause in Palestine. In 1947/48 she was actively involved in the preparations for the founding of the State of Israel. She was one of the 25 signatories of the Declaration of Independence of May 14, 1948, which is considered Israel's founding act.
As the first Israeli ambassador to the Soviet Union, Meir was sent to Moscow in 1948, where she soon began to initiate the emigration of numerous Jews to Israel and the West. In 1949, Meir returned to Israel, where she worked as a member of the Labor Party (Mapai) in the Knesset until 1974 and also in numerous government functions. As Minister of Labor from 1949 to 1955, she made outstanding progress in building a social system and creating jobs for the masses of immigrants. In the decade 1955 to 1965, Meir made a recognized name for herself at the international level as Israel's Foreign Minister. In this role, she primarily built a comprehensive development program for African states with which Israel had worked closely for a long time.
In 1965, Meir was promoted to general secretary of the Labor Party, as which she subsequently contributed to the unification of the three Labor parties to form the Israel Labor Party. On March 7, 1969, Meir was appointed Prime Minister of Israel, succeeding the late Eshkol. As head of government, the politician advocated negotiations and a peace solution with the Arab world. At the same time, however, it rejected talks with the PLO under Yasser Arafat because it viewed it as a terrorist organization. Meir was the first Jewish head of government to meet with Pope Paul VI at the beginning of 1973. together. In the fall it had to overcome a serious foreign policy crisis with the Yom Kippur War. In the general election of December 1973 the Labor Party was confirmed in government.
However, in 1974, Meir resigned from her position as head of government in connection with a parliamentary investigation into the military events during the Yom Kippur War. As a result, Meir continued to appear in public and in the press as an advocate for the Israeli cause.
Golda Meir died on December 8, 1978 in Jerusalem (Israel).- Director
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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.- 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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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.- 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.
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Yehuda Barkan was born on 29 March 1945 in Netanya, Israel. He was an actor and producer, known for Abba Ganuv II (1989), Abba Ganuv (1987) and Charlie and a Half (1974). He died on 23 October 2020 in Jerusalem, Israel.- Actor
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Gary Bayer was born on 25 June 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Children of Artsakh (1999), All That Jazz (1979) and Psycho III (1986). He died on 6 January 2017 in Jerusalem, Israel.- Shimon Peres was born on 2 August 1923 in Wiszniewo, Poland [now Vishnyeva, Belarus]. He was married to Sonya Gelman. He died on 28 September 2016 in Ramat Gan, 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.
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Joseph Zicherman was born on 5 October 1946 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He was a cinematographer, known for A Message from the Future (1981), The Patriots (1994) and Witness in the War Zone (1987). He died on 17 July 1998 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.
- Lucy Dee died on 10 April 2023 in Jerusalem, Israel.
- Jacques Cohen was born on 1 November 1930 in Alexandria, Egypt. He was an actor, known for The Delta Force (1986), Ashanti (1979) and The Jerusalem File (1972). He died on 1 December 2016 in Rehovot, Israel.
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Anat Gov was born on 13 December 1953 in Tiberias, Israel. She was a writer and producer, known for My Happy Ending (2023), Best Friends (2006) and Teatr Polskiego Radia (2004). She was married to Gidi Gov. She died on 9 December 2012 in Israel.- Anali Harpaz was an actress, known for Gift from Above (2003), Zinzana (1999) and Vulcan Junction (1999). She was married to Yoram Toledano. She died on 13 May 2011 in Israel.
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Saskia Cohen Tanugi was born in 1959 in Tunis, Tunisia. She was an actress and writer, known for Never Say Never Again (1983), Le faucon (1983) and Le maître des éléphants (1995). She died on 20 July 2020 in Jerusalem, 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.
- 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.
- Solomon Perel was born on 21 April 1925 in Peine, Germany. He was a writer, known for Europa Europa (1990), Marina, Mabuse und Morituri - 70 Jahre Deutscher Nachkriegsfilm im Spiegel der CCC (2017) and NDR Talk Show (1979). He was married to Dvora Morezky. . He died on 2 February 2023 in Givatayim, 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. - 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.
- Ruth Farhi was born on 13 August 1927 in Vienna, Austria. She was an actress, known for Schindler's List (1993), What's the 48? (2011) and The Farewell Party (2014). She died on 19 April 2021 in Israel.
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At the time of his death-- killed by gunfire while covering the Six Day War in the Middle East in 1967-- Ted Yates was among the most honored and respected of television's news documentary filmmakers. He was known as a tenacious reporter and producer who had produced seminal documentary films for NBC in the 1960s. He was a pioneer in television documentary, with an intimate understanding of the medium's visual power. During a tribute broadcast following his death, his colleagues described him as "not a daredevil but a dedicated professional."- 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.
- After working in the United Kingdom and Australia, Dicks moved to Haifa, Israel in 2004 where he was instrumental in the continuing success of The Haifa Theatre the first municipal theatre company of Haifa, Israel. He performed, directed and taught English at the Theatre Company in Haifa generating a loyal band of friends and associates who grieved at his passing in April 2022.
- Evgeniya Uralova was born on 19 June 1940 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]. She was an actress, known for Chyornyy kloun (1994), Sluchay v kvadrate '36-80' (1982) and Krug (1972). She was married to Yuriy Vizbor, Vsevolod Shilovskiy and Nikolai Podlesov. She died on 17 April 2020 in Israel.
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Svika Pick was born on 3 October 1949 in Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland. He was an actor and composer, known for Shlager (1979), Mishak Hahayim (2003) and Florentine (1997). He was married to Mirit Shem-Or. He died on 14 August 2022 in Ramat Ha'sharon, Israel.- Rami Danon was born on 12 June 1943 in Morocco. He was an actor, known for Beyond the Walls (1984), Live and Become (2005) and Scarred (2013). He died on 3 October 2019 in 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 The Little Traitor (2007). He was married to Nily Zuckerman. He died on 28 December 2018 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Fran Lee was born on 28 September 1910 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Lux Video Theatre (1950), Major Dell Conway of the Flying Tigers (1951) and The Big Story (1949). She was married to Samuel Weiss. She died on 13 February 2010 in Jerusalem, 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.
- Talia Shapira was born on August 6, 1946 in Ramat Gan, Israel. She was an actress and writer, known for her roles in films including -Hagiga Le'enayim (1975), Einayim Gdolot (1974) Belfer (1978) and many more. She died on January 24, 1992 in Israel. Talia was also an influential comedian and performer during the late 80's and early 90's, with a popular one woman show and many appearances at the Saturday night show in Channel One of the Israeli TV.
- 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.
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Ya'ackov Banai was born in 1919 in Jerusalem, Palestine. He was an actor, known for The Omen (1976), Snooker (1975) and Not Without My Daughter (1991). He died on 28 December 1993 in Jerusalem, Israel.- Zipora Peled was born on 1 March 1921 in Poland. She was an actress, known for America 3000 (1986), Exodus (1960) and The Delta Force (1986). She died on 16 September 2013 in Israel.