After a summer, it is not easy during which he copes with rumors of his wife's death, whom Sai Keshet comes back to life.

• Photo: Efrat Eshel, Makeup: Rose in Dosa Rotro. "Don't look back." Sixth bow

When was the last time you said "I love you"?

"Today. I say to Jonah at least twice a day, in the morning when I get up and before we go to bed, PLC. Tuvia Tzafir heard me tell it on TV, and he told his wife that she said 'Why aren't you like that?' So that night, before he went to bed, Tuvia told her, 'Jonah, I love you.'

"Jonah and I - we are an integrated production. We are both artists, and we are a completely extinct breed of couple, but we are human beings of a certain kind. We complement each other, Jonah is the visionary and I am the man of action. She puts it: 'I am Herzl and you son Gurion.

Reporter: Shir Ziv // Photo: Gil Kramer

"We have been through many years of turmoil, and we are not two saints. We too are many, but the pleasure is to complete nicely. I do not remember a time of anger and annoyance, there was no period of 'on the verge of divorce'. As Dalia Ravikovich wrote: 'Two fish rushed "And they went down to the sea to tell each other what their love had grown."

תי When did you last return to your childhood home?

"I do this from time to time. My childhood home was in Kibbutz Galilee. Today, unfortunately, it no longer exists, because new houses were built there, but I still say that it is my kibbutz. I have a lot of nostalgia. Who loved those who did not, and I always see half the full glass.I had a wonderful and lovely childhood.While we did not live with the parents, we had a children's home and saw the parents between four in the afternoon and seven in the evening, but to my delight I had very loving parents, and my mother would sneak to see Me during the day.

"When I want to relax, I dream of photos from the kibbutz, the friends and the kibbutz trails, it's romantic. But I was never a kibbutznik until the end, I wasn't a slumber. I was meticulous."

When was the last time you were invited to attend a reality show?

"All the time, until I said 'Guys, don't bother at all.' I was offered all kinds of realities, tried to lure me a lot of money, but I didn't care. I hate competitions, and although I'm on stage and artist, I'm a very private person. To me and all that stupid crap? Of course I will not attend, nor do I watch it.

"I respect every person's work, and I can't judge, because the reasons and reasons why someone goes to reality are probably unknown to me. Sometimes I'm sad that someone has to attend, but in the end every person is responsible for his fate. Everything like that has a price."

תי When was the last time you made a change in life?

"This year, when we decided to take a huge step, we left a dream home in Tel Aviv and moved to Jaffa, fulfilling Yona's dream of returning home. For me, too, this is the closure of a circle, I was in Nahal's command in Jaffa.

"When we were younger, we thought about what we would do at 70. Will we rest on the laurels? We're not like that. We wanted a change. We came here to walk along the promenade, and suddenly we saw this building and stumbled upon it. It took us a long time to sell our house, and we waited Here two and a half years until we arrived, and we're really happy here.

"This is a new chapter of life for us. We hear the ringing of the church and see the synagogue just below us, and hear the holiday prayers, and also the sounds of the mosque, and there is a lovely attitude from the Arabs - everyone sees 'Sabri Marnan' - and love us here. .

 Did you spend the last time with the kids?

"This week. Our kids are our whole lives. They have always loved to travel with us and spend time with us. They are very family-friendly. Now we have celebrated our one year grandson, Jonathan, and we are experiencing great happiness. I wanted to be a grandfather from the age of 40, and Jonah Ragta and I rag, we Addicted grandparents.

"We see the kids a lot, even though May (May Keshet, their daughter; Shaz) works very hard in the show 'Zero in Human Relations,' so this week we met at the restaurant and we all wandered together. Ariel, the eldest son, comes to visit with his wife Tali and Jonathan, they enjoy spending time with us and we are a very cohesive family.

"I was probably a good dad. I showed up a lot, and it had a price, but since Ariel was 14, we performed together, so we have mileage. I forbade him to call me dad on stage, so he learned to call me Shai, and to my delight he kept calling me dad Offstage.

"I see that my children have become what they are, so I conclude I did something good. My two children are successful, and I have a stake in it. They have become good people and human beings, connected to the family and loving each other very much."

When was the last time you didn't recognize you?

"It happens sometimes, because there are quite a few new immigrants here who are not fully involved. Since Yona and I were very young everyone knows us, and we learned to live with it. To our delight, 99.9 percent of beautiful, satisfying and pleasant reactions, we get a lot of love. As we sit and drink coffee, Israelis come and ask to be photographed with us. Anonymity can be welcome, that's true, but because we love it, it's pleasing to us. It's already in our nature to be recognized. "

תי Did you last dream come true?

"Anything that Jonah dreams of - I try to fulfill, and through her dreams I make my dreams come true. Her dreams are always beautiful and wonderful, even this house she dreamed of, and all kinds of things she wanted, like a trip to Italy or Paris, and I fulfilled all her It's great fun to fulfill dreams.

"I admit that my dreams as a child did not even come close to what I came to life. I did not have such big dreams. I dreamed about the Nahal band when I saw them in the kibbutz dining room, but I did not dream much beyond that. I wanted to be an actor and artist, but I didn't get to dream that far and high. I am lucky. In this profession you need talent, a special character - and a lot of luck. If I went back to the boy or boy I was today, I don't think he would have believed that I was getting where I was. "

When was the last time you made an order?

On the move, this year. We have made a change that many of our friends are jealous of us about, daring to get up and throw 85 percent of our belongings. We threw everything, we had a whole basement of things. I gave the library hundreds of books and got rid of lots of stuff. Among other things, I threw Chompi (Chompi was a stern puppet and a mythical figure from the children's program "Three, Four, Five and a Half" that aired in education; Shaz). He was already a good eye, his time had come.

When was the last time you were disappointed?

"I have disappointments, but I'm a guy who doesn't give a place for what I don't have. I don't say 'why I didn't do it', I don't look back in rage, only forward. There was only one thing I wanted and didn't happen: in the first production of 'Poor Life' In Israel, in 1987, the English director wanted me for the role of Jean and Jean, but he couldn't say my name correctly, so they didn't take me in. For years I used to hang around the 'wretched' world-wide, and never saw the show. I did the role I wanted at the opera, so it was a closing circle. "

 When did you last think about your age?

"I have no idea. I didn't have a crisis with age like my friends. Everyone talks about the 40-year crisis - I didn't. Nor the 50 and 60 crisis.

"At 60, I just started making life! Only when something hurts me, I say 'Oh, it's because of age.' I meditate and walk on the 5km beach every day, and I still feel young."

When was the last time you were very worried?

In the summer, when Jonah was in a hospital. I worried about her and the children, and there were rumors (Elian became ill with the kiss and was admitted to Ichilov in July 2019. At that time, various rumors were circulating about her illness, and even false rumors about her death; SH) - and I wanted to protect her and the children. My son is 40 and my daughter is almost 29, and that worry doesn't end, so when Jonah was sick I fought on three fronts, and it wasn't easy, all in all, we learned to live with rumors.

"We've been hearing rumors like this all our lives, and it never bothered me and I don't read gossip. But the one that kills Jonah every two weeks, that comes out with such a message, is very difficult, and with that I even went to the police and filed a complaint.

"I also had a rumor many years ago, on Al Jazeera's website or something like that came out with a picture of me injured in a horse riding accident and my two hands were cut off. I'm not immune to these things, but we learned to live with them. You want to be famous "You need to know that this is a price you have to pay, that will be talked about and written about, and not always true."

תי When did you last read a book?

"On Saturday. I am a bookworm, but unfortunately I only read on Saturdays because I have no time. As a child, I read a lot. Most of my education and education came from books, and I am a self-taught school. I was less interested in school. Today I read several books in parallel. The last one was Grossman's 'Life plays a lot', which drove me completely crazy, and at the same time I read Bob Ruth's 'The Power of Silence' about meditating, because I meditate every day. "

 When did you last browse social networks?

"Today. I'm there, but if I wasn't an artist and artistic director of the Yiddishpiel Theater, I don't know if I would invest in Facebook and all that. The shows have to be sold, and this is how it works today. Overall, despite my stack of years, I knew how to get into this matter of electronics, Computers and communication on time. I'm a man who loves gadgets, it's close to my heart, I'm always waiting for the next thing. "

 When did you last meet someone inspiring?

"I meet Jonah every day. She's the smartest woman I know. I live with a woman I know will always have answers, and even when she doesn't have answers - she'll know how to navigate them together so we can find the answers. She is inspirational.

“I meet with lots of people, and can give you a diverse list of people I admire and love.

"I really love smart people who came to what they achieved thanks to their wisdom, wisdom and goodness, and also great artists, and I admire pilots and doctors, but first of all, Jonah. When I see Jonah on stage, she makes me shed a tear."

When did you miss something last time?

"All the time. I am a nostalgic man and I miss a lot of things, the good old Israel, the kibbutz, my friends who are not, my parents, the old Tel Aviv. When I go abroad I miss the country, when I travel in a magical landscape I think of our Galilee. I have a longing for everything - to smells, to the tree, to old newspapers.

"We always thought it was better, but actually worse. So, on the one hand, I am the product of a generation that had a lot of dreams and today lives a little bit of the dream, and on the other hand I marvel at the country's incredible ability, where it came in art, in literature. "In culture, in science - it inspires great pride. The ability of people in Israel is amazing, and there are also a lot of people who love and know how to appreciate culture, which is great." 

When for the first time

When did you audition for the first time?

"I did two auditions for Life Misery, in '87 and '99. Both of them succeeded, but I was only accepted into one. I was always accepted for roles without auditions. I talked to those who needed or heard me sing, usually when they took me to roles. I have worked with the good guys in the field, and my whole life has been telling me 'You have to be on Broadway, what are you doing here? You're an international star', but I never regretted never going abroad to pursue a career abroad, and I can't complain about my career And about the life I have here. "

Shishi Keshet, 72. Actor and singer, Artistic Director and Co-Director of the Yiddishpiel Theater (with Zelig Rabinowitz). Resident of Jaffa. Married to Yona Elian, Actress. Began his way in the Nahal Band. Participate in plays and musicals ("Guys and Pieces," "Evita," "The Sounds of Music," "The Miseries of Life") and in motion pictures ("Nurit", "The Band"). He starred in the children's program "Three, Four, Five and Half" alongside Jonah Elian. Today, Elian brings up the show "Still Married?", Appears with pianist and conductor Gil Shochat, participates in the "Malavsky Family" show and plays in the new musical "Not Just Blonde."