Gila Almagor

[2] Her German-Jewish[2] father Max Alexandrowitz[3] was killed by an Arab sniper while working as a policeman[1][3] in Haifa[3] four months before she was born.[2] Almagor grew up caring for her mother, who was slowly losing her sanity after realising that all her family in Europe had been murdered in the Holocaust.[3]Two years later, she moved to Tel Aviv, rented a room near Habima Theatre, and applied to acting school.[7] Her autobiographical books Summer of Aviya and Under the Domim Tree were both made into films, with Almagor playing her own mother.She has appeared in over 50 films, including Siege, Queen of the Road, The House on Chelouche Street, Hide and Seek, El Dorado, Life According to Agfa and The Summer of Aviya.
Gila Almagor, 1964
Almagor in The House on Chelouche Street , 1973
Gila Almagor, 1969
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