Yosef Carmon, one of the top theater actors in Israel, passed away at the age of 88
Carmon, one of the most important and senior theater actors in Israel, passed away today at the age of 88. Carmon is one of the cornerstones of theater in Israel and is mainly identified with the plays of Hanoch Levin in which he starred.
In 2014 he developed dementia and has since gradually retired from gambling
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02/03/2022
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Yosef Carmon (Photo: Nimrod Saunders)
Yosef Carmon, one of the most important and senior theater actors in Israel, passed away today (Wednesday) at the age of 88. Carmon is one of the cornerstones of theater in Israel and is mainly identified with the plays of Hanoch Levin in which he starred.
In 2014 he developed dementia and has since gradually retired from gambling.
Carmon was born on June 14, 1933 as Josef Korman in Poland.
During World War II, his parents and three of his sisters perished in the Treblinka extermination camp.
Another sister and he hid with the gentile parents and survived.
In 1946 he immigrated to Israel and lived in Kibbutz Degania B.
From 1953 he played in the Cameri.
After traveling to London, he returned to Israel, played in other theaters - returned to the Cameri in '65 and played there until his retirement in 2014.
During these decades he has played in the Cameri in about 40 plays, 17 of them by Hanoch Levin.
In addition to that he has directed many plays.
He is best known for his role as the old man in the play "Eshkava", which he played from 1999 to 2014. Carmon also starred in the following plays that Levin wrote, many of which were also directed by Levin: "Yaakobi and Lidentental" in the form of Lidentental;
"Vardhale 'Youth" in the form of the driver;
"The Rubber Traders" in the form of Yohanan Tsingerbai;
"Execution" in the form of the father;
"Solomon Grip" in the form of Solomon;
"Job anguish" in the form of Job, a play that caused a stir in the public and was criticized in the Knesset by Deputy Education Minister Miriam Glazer-Tassa due to Carmon's appearance naked in the play;
"The Great Whore of Babylon" in the form of Bradach;
The "suitcases" in the form of a white motke;
"The Lost Women of Troy" in the form of Agamemnon;
"Everyone wants to live" in the form of Poznań;
"Yakish and Popcha" in the form of Yakish's father;
An "object" in the form of Teigelach;
The "whiners" in the figures of a sanitary, a spectator and a horse;
And in "Romantics"
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Yosef Carmon (Photo: Nimrod Saunders)
Throughout his life he has acted in theater in dozens of other plays, including "Hamlet", "Family Novel", "Richard III", "Grapes of Wrath", "Julius Caesar" and more.
In the cinema he starred in dozens of films, including: "Not a word to Morgenstein", "Where did Daniel Wax go?", "Azit the paratrooper bitch" and "Good death".
He also starred in the short film "The Death of Shula" written and directed by his son, Assaf Korman;
On television, he starred in the series "Stories for Late Night," "A Small Country, a Big Man," "Internal Investigation," "High and Greenbaum," "Rest," "Zaguri Empire" and in the TV movie "Wasserman - The Rain Man."
Since 1965, Carmon has also worked as a director, first in a private evening production with two sketches: "The Tiger" by Murray Shisgal and "The Elevator" by Harold Pinter.
He has directed many plays, including "Trumpeldor 1985", "Halperin and Johnson", "Jacobi and Lidenthal" and the renewal of the musical "Otz Li Gutz Li".
Carmon has won various awards throughout his life, including in 2011 the Landau Award for Lifetime Achievement, and in 2012 the Best Actor Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival 2012, for his performance in the film "Hayuta and Berl".
Carmon married in 1955, gave birth to two children - drama teacher Avital Korman and director and actor Zvika Korman, and divorced in the 1970s.
In the late 1970s, he married the actress, singer and dubber Tami Eshel, and two more children were born to her: the filmmaker and musician Assaf Korman and the actress Michal Korman.
Yosef Carmon (Photo: Nimrod Saunders)
In an interview published in January 2015 in Walla!
Culture with Assaf Korman He said that there was a deterioration in his father's medical condition.
"My father went into a state of dementia," Corman said. The person is in this disease. Many times he does not seem to be there. To feel him and bring him back we try to remind him of things from the past. One of the things I found to work amazingly is when I read him texts by Hanoch Levin, which he said orally. ", He responds to them immediately. Sometimes I give him a line from 'Job's anguish' and he completes the last word. He remembers the syntax of Hanoch Levin, while he sometimes does not remember my name."
In an interview with Walla!
Culture About a year and a half ago, Korman said: "Today he no longer remembers the texts. Every time I met him I saw how he remembers one word less. Once, I would quote him an excerpt from some of his monologues and he would continue it. Not today."
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