Background
Uri Zohar was born in Tel Aviv in November 4 1935.
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Uri Zohar was born in Tel Aviv in November 4 1935.
In 1952, he graduated high school and did his military service in an army entertainment troupe. In 1960, he studied philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
By 1956, he was a popular stand-up comedian. He was sentenced to three months of community service on charges of marijuana possession. In the late 1970s, Zohar turned to religion, becoming a Haredi Orthodox Jew and a rabbi.
In 1977, he began wearing a kippa on the television game show he was hosting.
In the 1992 Israeli elections, Zohar directed the television broadcasts for Shas.
In 2012, Cinematheque Francaise in Paris held a retrospective of Zohar"s work. The event included lectures and screenings of all his major films. Zohar was described as one of Israel"s most interesting film directors due to his exploration of manhood and machismo, male-female relationships and the impact of the military.
