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11 Facts About Ruth Sagall

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Ruth Sagall was a Polish-born Israeli actress of stage, screen and television.

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Ruth Sagall was a member of the Haifa Theatre after joining it in 1962 and played a lead role in some of the plays staged in the theatre.

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In 2002, Ruth Sagall authored the book, Goya with Freckles, in which she discusses how she survived the Holocaust.

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On 9 June 1929, Ruth Sagall was born in Katowice, Poland.

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Ruth Sagall emigrated to Israel in 1946, when she was 17 years old.

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In 1962, Ruth Sagall moved back to Israel, and she was accepted as a member of the Haifa Theatre in the same year.

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Ruth Sagall starred solo in the plays The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir in 1981, Available for Proposals five years that was authored for her by Arie Yas and Leah Goes Out on the Street in 1992.

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Ruth Sagall wrote a play, Flowers for the Feast, but it was never brought to the stage.

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Ruth Sagall was in the 1967 film Women in the Other Room and played Tzipa-Leah in Behind the Fence seven years later.

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Ruth Sagall portrayed the part of Leah in the 1990 film Parents and Sons, Fence in the television series Itche in 1997, the groom in Urban Feel a year later, Chesha in the 2006 film The Galilee Eskimos and played Friedel in the 2008 film Valentina's Mother.

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Ruth Sagall is the mother of the actor and screenwriter Jonathan Ruth Sagall, and she had a daughter.