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Born in 1950 in Haifa, Israel. He began to direct short films in the early seventies when studying archictecture at the Israel Institute of Technology. The first of these was Ahare, in 1974. Shortly after, he enlisted to fight the Yom Kippur War, a traumatising experience that served as a basis for a film Kippur (2000) included in the selection for the 28th Mostra. Outstanding among his considerable cinematographic output are Esther (1985), The Arena of Murder (1996) that was part of the 20th Mostra, Kadosh (1999), part of the 23rd Mostra, and a documentary Wadi Grand Canyon (2001), presented at the 25th Mostra. At the 26th Mostra, he was one of the directors in a joint project 11’09’’01 – September 11 and was awarded the critics prize for Kedma (both in 2002). He also made Alila (2003), shown at the 27th Mostra. Promised Land (2004) and the collective film Bem-Vindo a São Paulo (2004) were both outstanding at the 28th Mostra, together with a retrospective, an exhibition, and release of a book as tribute to Gitai. He was also part of the 29th Mostra with Free Zone (2005).