The Habima Theatre is the national theatre of Israel and one of the first Hebrew language theatres. It is located in Habima Square in the center of Tel Aviv.
Yehoshua Sobol, sometimes written Joshua Sobol, is an Israeli playwright, writer, and theatre director.
Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Central European Ashkenazi Jewish community. The range of Yiddish theatre is broad: operetta, musical comedy, and satiric or nostalgic revues; melodrama; naturalist drama; expressionist and modernist plays. At its height, its geographical scope was comparably broad: from the late 19th century until just before World War II, professional Yiddish theatre could be found throughout the heavily Jewish areas of Eastern and East Central Europe, but also in Berlin, London, Paris, Buenos Aires and New York City.
Yosef "Yossi" Banai was a singer, actor in film and theater, songwriter, comedian, lyricist, and Israeli theater director. He was awarded the Israel Prize for Theater in 1998 and the Israeli Theater Award in 2004. Banai is considered one of the greatest performing artists in Israel.
The Cameri Theatre, established in 1944 in Tel Aviv, is one of the leading theatres in Israel, and is housed at the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center.
Gesher Theater is an Israeli theater company founded in 1991 in Tel Aviv by new immigrants from Russia.
Yaakov Bodo is an Israeli actor, comedian and holocaust survivor.
Miriam (Schmulewitz) Hoffman is a Yiddish language playwright and lecturer.
Dov (Dubi) Seltzer is a Romanian-born Israeli composer and conductor.
Anat Atzmon is an Israeli actress and singer.
Yaakov Rechter was an Israeli architect and an Israel Prize recipient. Stronly influenced by the works of Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, he was among Israel's architects who also modeled Tel Aviv on North African cities with "cubist-like flat roofs".
Na Laga'at is a nonprofit organization founded in 2002 by Adina Tal and Eran Gur around the first of its kind in the world ensemble whose actors are all deafblind. The organization established a unique cultural center at the Levantbondet House in the Port of Jaffa in Tel Aviv. The center is a platform for creative arts, which promote equal and open dialogue and lead to social change built on the belief in the human spirit and its ability to reach out and make a change.
Shmuel Rodensky was a Russian-born Israeli actor whose stage, film, and television career in Israel and West Germany spanned six decades. He immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1924 and studied drama at the Eretz Israel Theatre in Tel Aviv. After performing with several theatre companies between 1928 and 1948, he joined Habima Theatre in 1949 and became one of its principal players. He was known as "the Israeli Laurence Olivier". In 1968 Rodensky traveled to Hamburg to join the German-language production of Fiddler on the Roof, playing the lead role of Tevye the Dairyman. He performed this role more than 1,400 times throughout West Germany and Switzerland. His notable film roles include the lead in the 1968 Israeli film Tevye and His Seven Daughters, Simon Wiesenthal in the 1974 Anglo-German film The Odessa File, and Jethro in the 1974 BBC television miniseries Moses the Lawgiver. He was the recipient of numerous honors in both Israel and West Germany, including the Federal Service Cross from the Federal Republic of Germany and the Israel Prize.
Theatronetto is an annual Israeli theater festival that exhibits monodramas, and takes place in the city of Tel Aviv since 1990. The festival establishes a direct dialog between the solo actor and the viewing audience. The festival takes place during the Jewish holiday of Passover, usually in April. Its main event is a contest, to which's finals only few monoactors manage to reach.
Yaakov "Kobi" Marimi is an Israeli singer and actor. He represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 on home soil in Tel Aviv with the song "Home".
Yaron Edelstein is an Israeli playwright and theatre director. His plays performed in Israel, Germany and Italy, and have been translated into English, French, Polish, Dutch and Italian. Edelstein won the Cameri Theater Best Playwright Award (2021), the Israeli Fringe Award for Best Director and Best Dramatic Adaptor (2010), the Acre Festival prize for Best Original Show (2013), and in Germany, he received an award at the Heidelberger Stückemarkt for his play Mountain. Among his original plays are Ringo, The Ephemerals, Mountain, Pfffffff.
Hanna Rieber was a Romanian-born Israeli actress of stage, screen and television. She performed on stage at the Haifa Municipal Theatre, the Orna Porat Children's Theater, the Beersheba Theater and the Yiddishpiel. Rieber was awarded the Fringe Lifetime Achievement Award by the Golden Hedgehog Association for her work and contribution to the non-institutional theater field in 2013.
Dedi Baron is an Israeli theatre and opera director who works and creates in Israel, Germany, Australia and teaches directing and acting.
Tzedi Tzarfati, Tsadi Tsarfati, or Tsedi Sarfati is an Israeli television presenter, director, and former actor.
Anna Guzik was a Soviet variety artist, Russian and Yiddish theatre actress, and recording artist. Like Zinovy Shulman, Nechama Lifshitz, Sidi Tal, and Emil Gorovets, she had a career performing Jewish music and plays on the Soviet stage which was marked by various periods of censorship and official support depending on the political climate.
