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Born in Casablanca in 1953, Moshe Ivgy (Jud.-Ar. Ibgī, Ibghī) came to Israel with his parents at the age of four. Following his army service, Ivgy studied acting at the Nissim Nativ Studio in Tel Aviv. He is one of Israel’s most popular stage and screen actors and is an active member of the Israel Screen Actors Guild. Ivgy lives with his family in Zichron Ya’akov and is the father of actress Dana Ivgy.Ivgy has appeared in television dramas, feature films, shorts, and plays performed on the Israeli stage. His first feature film role was in Yankul Goldwasser’s Big Shots (1982). Ivgy has perfec…

Born in Morocco, Albert Illouz immigrated to Israel in 1968. He graduated from Tel Aviv University and began his acting career in children’s theater in 1979. Illouz has appeared in productions of all the major theaters in Israel—Beersheva, Habima, Beit Lessin, and Haifa—and has won recognition and popularity for his professionalism as a supporting actor on the stage and in TV and the movies. The numerous feature films in which he has appeared include Lovesick on Nana St. (directed by Sabi Gavizon)and Aviva My Love and Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi (both directed by Shemi Zarḥin). 1. Filmog…

Hanna Azoulaï-Hasfari was born in Beersheva to Moroccan parents. She attended the Boyer High School, a Jerusalem boarding school, did her army service in the Army Theater Troupe, and studied at Tel Aviv University. She grew up to become a leading figure of Israeli stage and screen, both as an actress and as a screenwriter. In one of her earliest films, Nadia (1986), she played the title role, portraying an Israeli Arab teenager attending a primarily Jewish boarding school. Azoulaï-Hasfari collaborated with her husband, director Shmuel Hasfari, on the screenplay for the feature film Pra…

Israeli actress Yael Abecassis has starred in numerous Israeli and international feature films. Born in Israel in 1967 to a family of Moroccan background, she worked as a model and an on-screen presenter for children’s television, and began her movie career in 1991 with the French film Pour Sacha (dir. Alexander Arcady). Her role as Rivka in Amos Gitai’s Kadosh (1999) showed her capable of portraying a deep and tragic character and propelled her into stardom. Living in a stifling ultra-Orthodox community in Jerusalem, Rivka is unable to conceive. The un…