Bomba Tsur

Bomba Tsur was born in 1928 in Haifa

Bomba Tzur was born Yosef Welzer in Haifa in 1928. As a child his parents made him study cello, but this ended after he hurt his hand. After he was expelled from the Hebrew Reali School, he studied for 2 years at Shomriya in Mishmar HaEmek, spent a year in a training group at Dafna, and finished high school in Haifa.

In the War of Independence he fought with the Palmach at Nabi Yusha and Safed. He then joined the army troupe HaCarmel as an accordion player and soon became its comic performer. After the war he helped found Kibbutz Yiron and worked there as a farmer and tractor driver for 9 months.

He moved to Tel Aviv, studied privately with director Zvi Friedland, and acted at the HaMatate theater. In 1953 he joined the Cameri Theater, where he played until 1957 and had his first lead role. He then studied directing in London for close to 2 years.

His film career included They Were Ten in 1960, Dalia and the Sailors, Hole in the Moon, Fortuna and Big Gus, What's the Fuss? In Ephraim Kishon's Blaumilch Canal of 1969 he played an escaped patient who drills up Allenby Street. He received the Kinor David award.

His first wife was Ila Nodelman, and they had a son, Amnon. He died of cancer in 1979, a year after his second wife died of the same disease. He was buried beside her in Herzliya.