Uri Zohar

Uri Zohar, born Uri Dzhadek in Tel Aviv in 1935, served in the Nahal troupe and founded, with other veterans, the Batsal Yarok ensemble; a comic on radio, on stage and then on television, he studied philosophy at the Hebrew University and in 1962 co-directed with Nathan Axelrod a documentary on the Yishuv. His first feature film, in 1964, opened the movement known as the new sensibility, of which he was the leading figure. He refused the Israel Prize in 1976, turned to religion at the end of the seventies, became a rabbi and died in Jerusalem in 2022.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaThree Days and a Childשלושה ימים וילדUri Zohar · 1967Cinema