Efrat AbramovW
Efrat Abramov

Efrat Abramov is an Israeli TV presenter, journalist and screenwriter.

Ron AssoulineW
Ron Assouline

Ron Assouline is a film director, screenwriter, creative director, producer, and a lecturer at the Sammy Ofer School of Communications at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC). Assouline is also the founder and owner of Filmind, a film and advertising firm. He has directed many films for museums around the world, but mainly in Israel, including Journey to Jerusalem, a 100 episode series, shown regularly at the Western Wall in Jerusalem and A Human Sanctuary, a historic drama film presented at the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum. Assouline has also produced and directed many television commercials, including those for Benjamin Netenyahu's 1996 election campaign and Ehud Barak's 1999 campaign.

David AvidanW
David Avidan

David Avidan was an Israeli "poet, painter, filmmaker, publicist, and playwright". He wrote 20 published books of Hebrew poetry.

Sigal AvinW
Sigal Avin

Sigal Avin is an American-Israeli writer and director.

Hanna Azoulay HasfariW
Hanna Azoulay Hasfari

Hanna Azoulay-Hasfari is an Israeli actress, screenwriter, playwright, film director and a two-time winner of the Ophir Award. She is a women's rights activist, and has dedicated her career promoting awareness regarding social justice issues and cultural diversity. In 2015, she was invited to speak at the United Nations headquarters in New York, in honor of International Women's Day, where she presented a screening of her film Orange People, in condemnation of child marriage.

Avi BelkinW
Avi Belkin

Avi Belkin is a film director, producer and cinematographer known for his documentary feature Mike Wallace is Here (2019), which premiered in competition at the Sundance film festival and was released by Magnolia Pictures. He also directed and executive produced a 6 part true crime documentary series titled No one saw a thing (2019) that tells the story of a small violent town in Missouri. It aired on AMC Networks and was produced by Blumhouse Television and Delirio films. His feature debut film Winding (2015) won the best film award at the Haifa international film festival. In 2012, he produced and directed a short documentary film titled Paddle Ball that won the first place at the Doc aviv international film festival challenge that year. Belkin was featured in Variety’s 2019 top 10 directors to watch.

Yitzhak Ben NerW
Yitzhak Ben Ner

Yitzhak Ben Ner is an Israeli writer, screenwriter, journalist, and film critic. He has also hosted and edited radio and TV programs.

Rama BurshteinW
Rama Burshtein

Rama Burshtein is an American-born Israeli filmmaker best known for her 2012 debut feature, Fill the Void.

Eli Cohen (actor)W
Eli Cohen (actor)

Eli Cohen is an Israeli actor and film director. In 1989 his film Summer of Aviya won the Silver Bear Award from the 39th Berlin International Film Festival. Six years later, his film Under the Domim Tree was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.

Danniel DannielW
Danniel Danniel

Danniel Danniel was an award winning Israeli film director, screenwriter and film editor. He lived in the Netherlands since 1980. He died in the morning of 4 May 2017 in Amsterdam.

Boaz DavidsonW
Boaz Davidson

Boaz Davidson is an Israeli film director, producer and screenwriter. He was born in Tel Aviv, Israel and studied film in London at London Film School.

Asaf EpsteinW
Asaf Epstein

Asaf Epstein is an Israeli film director, writer and producer.

Ari FolmanW
Ari Folman

Ari Folman is an Israeli film director, screenwriter, animator and film score composer. He directed the Oscar-nominated animated documentary film Waltz with Bashir (2008) and the live-action/animated film The Congress.

Eytan FoxW
Eytan Fox

Eytan Fox is an Israeli film director.

Shira GeffenW
Shira Geffen

Shira Geffen is an Israeli actress, screenwriter, film director and children's book writer.

Giora ChamizerW
Giora Chamizer

Giora Chamizer is an Israeli screenwriter, television producer and author. He is known for creating many different Israeli drama television shows.

Amos GitaiW
Amos Gitai

Amos Gitai is an Israeli filmmaker, who was trained as an architect.

Dana GoldbergW
Dana Goldberg

Dana Goldberg is an Israeli poet, filmmaker and playwright.

Anat GovW
Anat Gov

Anat Gov was an Israeli screenwriter and playwright.

Rony GruberW
Rony Gruber

Rony Gruber is an Israeli film director and screenwriter. He is best known as the director and co-producer of Are You This Able?, nominated for best documentary at the Ophir Award.

HamuchtarW
Hamuchtar

Hamuchtar, Gilad Philip Ben-David, b. 1971, is a singer and cabaret artist who began his career in Tel Aviv in the late 1980s. He has also played various films most notably “Amazing Grace” by the late director Amos Guttman, as well as directing his own films and theatre plays. His musical style incorporates cabaret, mizrahi music, Yemenite music and electronica.

Jacques KatmorW
Jacques Katmor

Jacques Mory-Katmor was an Israeli bohemian/counterculture experimental filmmaker, painter, and, multimedia artist, of anarchical, underground, and, independent leanings.

Ephraim KishonW
Ephraim Kishon

Ephraim Kishon was an Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter, and Oscar-nominated film director. He was one of the most widely read contemporary satirists in the world.

Dover KosashviliW
Dover Kosashvili

Dover Kosashvili is an Israeli film director and screenwriter of Georgian-Jewish descent. He has directed five films since 1998. His film Late Marriage was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

Nadav LapidW
Nadav Lapid

Nadav Lapid is an Israeli writer and film director.

Talya LavieW
Talya Lavie

Talya Lavie is an Israeli filmmaker best known for her 2014 debut feature Zero Motivation.

Motti LernerW
Motti Lerner

Motti Lerner is an Israeli playwright and screenwriter.

Naomi LevariW
Naomi Levari

Naomi Levari is an Israeli film producer and director.

Hagai LeviW
Hagai Levi

Hagai Levi is a television creator, writer, director and producer.

Reshef LeviW
Reshef Levi

Reshef Levi is an Israeli screenwriter, playwright, film director, producer, writer, comedian and television presenter. Winner of the Israeli Theatre Award and the Israeli Academy of Television Award. Levi is married with seven children and lives in Kfar Sava.

Ram LoevyW
Ram Loevy

Ram Loevy is an Israeli television director and screenwriter. He has written and directed and documentary films that challenge the status quo on such issues as class conflict, torture, the prison system, and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. In 1993, Loevy was awarded the Israel Prize in Communication, Radio and Television in 1993 for his life's work.

Ayelet MenahemiW
Ayelet Menahemi

Ayelet Menahemi is an Israeli film director, producer, writer, editor, and actress.

Dani MenkinW
Dani Menkin

Dani Menkin is an Israeli director, screenwriter and film producer. He is the founder of film production company Hey Jude Productions.

Oren MovermanW
Oren Moverman

Oren Moverman is an Israeli-American screenwriter, film director, and film producer. He has directed the films The Messenger, Rampart, Time Out of Mind, and The Dinner.

Yariv MozerW
Yariv Mozer

Yariv (Mordechai) Mozer, is an Israeli film producer, screenwriter and film director.

Guy NattivW
Guy Nattiv

Guy Nattiv is an Israeli film director, screenwriter, and film producer.

Vince OfferW
Vince Offer

Offer Shlomi, better known as Vince Offer, Vince Shlomi, "The ShamWow Guy", or "The Slap Chop Guy", is an Israeli-American infomercial pitchman, director, writer, and comedian. Offer's first major work was the 1999 comedy film The Underground Comedy Movie. Offer owns, produces, and appears in television commercials for his products "ShamWow!", an absorbent towel; the "Slap Chop", a kitchen utensil; a lint roller called the "Schticky"; a liquid cleaner called "InVinceable"; and another kitchen utensil called "Crank Chop". He has also officially advertised other products that he does not own, such as Quicky Grass.

George OvadiahW
George Ovadiah

George Ovadiah, also known as George Obadiah, was an Iraqi-born Israeli film director, scriptwriter and producer.

Yair QedarW
Yair Qedar

Yair Qedar is an Israeli filmmaker and a civil-rights activist.His academic training on 20th-century Hebrew literature, propelled him into The Hebrews — a documentary project on the Hebrew and Jewish literary canon, centered on filmic portraits of Hebrew writers from the 17 century to recent days. 14 feature length documentary films were made in the project so far. The documentary films which Qedar produced - and directed with other 10 Israeli film directors - all premiered in film festivals, aired on Israeli TV, circulated far and wide in hundreds of cinemas, cinematheques, community and cultural centers, in Israel and around the world earning 14 awards -Special Mention in Haifa film festival 2018 - Jury comments: "A unique project of artistic and historical value that wonderfully preserves via documentary films, literary and poetic pearls, some of which, unfortunately, are becoming extinct.", and 2016: first prize for filmmaking in the field of Jewish culture by the ministry of Education in Israel, 2015: the Hebrews films won the prize for best television project in the Israeli Documentary competition). The project, both digital and print, offers altogether e14 documentary films, a video archive and several books. In 2019, Docaviv festival held a special retrospective for the Hebrews films, alongside Van Leer institute in Jerusalem, the Jewish Museum in Berlin as well as other institutions.

Dorit RabinyanW
Dorit Rabinyan

Dorit Rabinyan is an Israeli writer and screenwriter.

Gideon RaffW
Gideon Raff

Gideon "Gidi" Raff is an Israeli film and television director, screenwriter, and writer. He is best known for his creation of the Channel 2 thriller drama series Prisoners of War, from which he later co-developed the American version of the series Homeland.

Shuli RandW
Shuli Rand

Shalom "Shuli" Rand is an Israeli film actor, writer, and singer. He is a Breslover Hasid and is best known in the English-speaking world for his role as the protagonist in Ushpizin (2005), for which he wrote the screenplay.

Eran RiklisW
Eran Riklis

Eran Riklis is an Israeli filmmaker. His films include Cup Final (1991), The Syrian Bride (2004), Lemon Tree (2008) and Dancing Arabs (2014).

Jonathan SagallW
Jonathan Sagall

Jonathan Sagall is a Canadian-born Israeli actor, director and screenwriter.

Nava SemelW
Nava Semel

Nava Semel was an Israeli author, playwright, screenwriter and translator. Her short story collection Kova Zekhukhit was the first work of fiction published in Israel to address the topic of the "Second Generation" - children of Holocaust survivors.

Joel SilbergW
Joel Silberg

Joel Silberg, also written Yoel Silberg, was a movie director and screenwriter in Israel and the United States. His films in Israel include so-called Bourekas films. He then directed films in the U.S. during the 1980s, including Breakin' and Lambada. Both have been described as exploitation films. In 2008 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israel Film Academy.

Tomer SisleyW
Tomer Sisley

Tomer Sisley is an Israeli French actor and comedian.

Ori SivanW
Ori Sivan

Ori Sivan is an Israeli film and television director and screenwriter. In a career spanning over two decades, he covered feature films, TV drama, TV movies, and documentaries. Sivan and his work won 11 Israeli Film Academy Awards, as well as international film awards, across all the above fields of film making. Sivan is the co-creator of In Treatment, the first Israeli TV drama series to ever be sold for re-make in the US, followed by re-make in over 20 countries.

Dror SorefW
Dror Soref

Dror Soref is an award-winning filmmaker and social reformer who made his directorial debut with the I Love Rocky Road music video for a then unknown "Weird Al" Yankovic in 1983, after attending USC School of Cinema. Soref later directed the Best Short Film nominated Platinum Blonde, which drew the attention of Paramount Studios President. Consequently, Soref was retained under contract to develop projects at Paramount Studios for him to write and direct. With the help of Paramount, The Seventh Coin became Soref’s debut as a feature film writer/director. Starring Peter O’Toole, The Seventh Coin won two festival awards in 1993, including Best Picture. Throughout the following decade Soref directed or executive produced over a hundred commercials and music videos. In 2003, Soref returned to feature films, co-producing Basic for Columbia Pictures, starring John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson. In 2009 Soref wrote, directed and produced the critically acclaimed and Saturn Award nominee for Best Science Fiction Not Forgotten starring Simon Baker, Paz Vega and Chloë Grace Moretz.

Gadi TaubW
Gadi Taub

Gadi Taub is an Israeli historian, author, screenwriter, and political commentator. He is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Policy and the Department of Communications at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Taub is also an internationally noticed voice in the discourse on Zionism.

Gal UchovskyW
Gal Uchovsky

Gal Uchovsky is an Israeli screenwriter, producer, journalist, activist and Israeli TV personality.

Ariel VromenW
Ariel Vromen

Ariel Vromen is an Israeli film director and screenwriter best known for directing the 2012 American film The Iceman.

Dror ZahaviW
Dror Zahavi

Dror Zahavi is an Israeli film director and screenwriter. He has directed more than 25 films and television shows since 1992. His 2008 film For My Father was entered into the 30th Moscow International Film Festival.