15 Facts About Uri Zohar

Uri Zohar was an Israeli film director, actor and comedian who left the entertainment world to become an orthodox rabbi.

Uri Zohar was sentenced to three months of community service on charges of marijuana possession.

Uri Zohar was a close friend of Arik Einstein, with whom he made some of his most noted films.

Uri Zohar was one of the founding members of Ma'ale Amos.

Uri Zohar was survived by his second wife Eliya Shuster, a former actress who had participated in a film he directed, their seven children and numerous grandchildren.

Uri Zohar directed 11 full-length films as well as a number of short movies and episodes of the television series "Lool".

Uri Zohar eventually withdrew entirely from Israel's popular culture scene to become a Haredi Jew and began to study in yeshiva.

Uri Zohar became a rabbi in Jerusalem and immersed himself in Biblical scholarship.

Uri Zohar became active in the movement to attract secular Jews to religious orthodoxy, and used his entertainment skills to promote this objective.

Uri Zohar later directed a film about a successful dancer who embraces orthodox Judaism, mirroring his own story.

Uri Zohar had enlisted the help filmmakers Dani Rosenberg and Yaniv Segalovich to make it, and Rosenberg and Segalovich in turn made a documentary about him.

Uri 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.

The series was filmed in their Jerusalem home, as well as locations where Uri Zohar lived and worked in Tel Aviv.

Rabbi Uri Zohar passed away on June 2,2022 at the age of 86, after suffering a heart attack at his home in Jerusalem's Romema neighborhood.

Uri Zohar was buried in Har HaMenuchot cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.