Avraham Abutbul

Avraham Abutbul was born in 1961 in Kiryat Ata

Abutbul was born in Kiryat Ata to a family of Egyptian and Algerian origin. His father was an insurance agent and his mother a bookkeeper. He was the older brother of actor Alon Abutbul.

At 17 he moved to Jerusalem and studied at the Ohr Somayach yeshiva, but left it and religious life. He changed his name to Avi Kedar. In 1998 he returned to religion and studied at a yeshiva in Ein Karem.

He began acting in film in 1986 and played the lead in Front Window in 1990. In 2004 he played Ben Baruch in Ushpizin, written by Shuli Rand. In 2011 he played Rabbi Canaan in the second season of Pillars of Smoke.

In 1995 he recorded an album as Avi Kedar but shelved it as he grew closer to religion. In 2001 he founded the group Beit HaKedusha with Gadi Pogatch, and later released the albums Kochvei Or and Ha'er Li Misham. His music centered on his faith as a Breslov Hasid.

In 2012 a brain tumor was found, and the cancer had spread. Days before his death he remarried his former wife at Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital, where he died. He had 4 children and was buried on the Mount of Olives.