Amos Lavi

Amos Lavi was an Israeli stage and film actor. He won three Ophir Awards for the roles he played in the films ShChur, Nashim and Zirkus Palestina.

Lavi was born in Libya in 1953. Lavi immigrated later on to Israel with his family which moved to Kiryat Gat. In 1973, during the Yom Kippur War Lavi participated in the war in the reserve forces of the IDF, and suffered from a posttraumatic stress disorder after the war. During his rehabilitation he was offered to study acting. In the early 1980s Lavi graduated from acting school at the Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts.

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