Reportedly based on her parents’ own difficult relationship, Elkabetz co-wrote and co-directed with her younger brother Shlomi. In 2008, Elkabetz followed it up with a second instalment, Shiva aka Seven Days, and Gett comprised the third examination of the character. Elkabetz was born far from Tel Aviv, where she would eventually live, most recently with her architect husband, Avner Yasher, and their three-year-old twins. “Or” earned the Camera d’Or and the Grand Prize Prix Regards Jeune Award for Best Feature at that year’s Cannes Film Festival, and the critically-acclaimed “The Band’s Visit” won eight Israeli Ophir Awards and was initially submitted as the nation’s entry for Best Foreign Film before being swapped, due to a ruling over too much English dialogue, for “Beaufort.”. Ultra-Orthodox wedding held in Arab town in effort to avoid detection, Jews at Illinois college faced ‘unrelenting’ anti-Semitism, complaint says, Ivanka Trump visits tomb of the Lubavitcher Rebbe as election nears, Pro-Trump rallies planned in Orthodox Jewish communities ahead of US election, Arab Israeli blogger dismisses claim he’s an Israeli propaganda tool, Gamliel rejects misconduct allegations, says enemies trying to get her fired, ‘We aren’t going to ask America:’ Erdogan confirms testing Russian S-400, Groom nearly faints as police enforcing health rules clash with wedding party, Israel’s only female F-35 pilot named deputy commander of squadron, Leading member of Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn on the run from police, Israel designates PFLP’s student wing a terror group, Albania becomes first Muslim country to adopt anti-Semitism definition. The daughter of Moroccan immigrants, Elkabetz’s most successful film was also her most recent: Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, in which she starred as an orthodox Jewish woman attempting to obtain a religious divorce; she also co-directed and wrote it with her brother Shlomi.

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Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex/Shutterstock Multi-award-winning Israeli actor-director Ronit Elkabetz has died aged 51 from cancer, it has been announced . © Copyright 2020 Variety Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. Elkabetz had been acting on film since 1990 (after working as a model) and her first role, in The Intended, was opposite Shuli Rand, a celebrated actor who later became a Haredi (ultra-orthodox) Jew. Directed by Eran Kolirin, Elkabetz played the restaurant owner, and the film screened at the Cannes film festival before a successful release in Europe and the US. She was 51.