Amos Lavi

Amos Lavi was born in 1953 in Tripoli

Lavi was born in 1953 in Tripoli, Libya, to Eliyahu and Missa. At the age of three he moved to Israel with his family, and he grew up in Kiryat Gat. His father, a mohel and ritual slaughterer, died when Lavi was seven.

He served in the IDF reserves during the 1973 Yom Kippur War and suffered combat stress afterward. During his rehabilitation he was offered acting studies. In the early 1980s he graduated from the acting school of the Kibbutzim College.

His film career began in 1980, and he went on to appear in many Israeli and Israeli-American films and TV series. He won Ophir Awards for his roles in Sh'Chur, Nashim and Zirkus Palestina. He also played the Rebbe in the Haredi telenovela Ha-Chatzer and appeared in Steven Spielberg's Munich.

Lavi was married to actress Evelin Hagoel and had four children. He died of lung cancer in Tel Aviv in 2010 and was buried at Yarkon Cemetery.