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A director, playwright, and actor, Itzik Weingarten was born in Reḥovot. He studied theater at Tel Aviv University, and then joined Nola Chilton’s theater
group. Weingarten directed and acted in several solo productions and was the house director of the Haifa Theater. He has also served as the artistic director of the Akko Festival, and founded the Neveh Tsedek Theater. He is a recipient of the 1992 Teatronetto Award.

Yehoshua Sobol is a playwright and essayist. He was born and brought up in Tel Mond, Israel. His first play, Hayamim habaim (The Days to Come) was staged at the Haifa Theater in 1971, and his Geto (Ghetto; 1984) was performed by the Royal National Theatre in the UK, winning the London Critics Award and the Evening Standard Award for best play of the year.