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Follow Feb. 3, 2021 Israeli actress Haya Harareet, who became a star around the world in 1959 after portraying Esther, the hero’s love interest in the blockbuster masterpiece “Ben-Hur,” died Wednesday at her home in Buckinghamshire, England. She was 89. Harareet was one of the first Israeli actors to break into Hollywood, but she couldn’t sustain her success and retired in the ‘60s. Her niece Tamar Tessler, who lives in Israel, said Harareet died overnight in her sleep. Her ashes will be scattered in Israel. Open gallery view Haya Harareet. Despite her MGM contract she failed to ret...

Jessica Steinberg covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center. Illustrative: An Israeli couple wait for a play to begin in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2013. (Zuzana Janku/Flash 90) A spate of new plays commissioned from young Tel Aviv playwrights may be one way the beleaguered culture industry is fighting back against the strangling effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Over half a million shekels is being invested by the Tel Aviv municipality and the city’s four most established repertory theaters — Habima Theater, Beit Lessin Theater, Gesher Theater and Cameri Theater — t...

Follow Dec. 16, 2020 Yaakov Agmon, a cornerstone of Israeli theater, died on Wednesday at the age of 91. Agmon was the head of the Cameri and Habima theaters and a founder of the Beit Lessin Theater, which originally belonged to the Histadrut labor federation. Among his best known productions were “House of Dolls,” Kinneret, Kinneret” and “Twelfth Night” for the Cameri Theater, and “Waiting for Godot,” Death of a Salesman,” “Tango” and “Black Box” for Habima. “Habima National Theater mourns the passing of Yaakov Agmon, who headed Habima Theater from 1995 to 2005, and...