Dvora Kedar

Dvora Kedar was born in 1924 in Vilnius

Dvora Kedar was born in Vilnius in 1924. In 1925 she moved with her family to the Land of Israel. They lived first in Jerusalem and later in Tel Aviv.

She attended the Tel Nordau school and Tichon Hadash high school in Tel Aviv. She studied acting at the Habima Theatre studio and finished in 1945.

She first appeared on stage in 1943 and joined the Hamatate theater in 1945 and the Cameri Theater in 1949. She later acted at Habima and Beit Lessin, and won the Israel Theater Prize for her role in Hametz. Her first film was Ulai Terdu Sham in 1964, and she played Bentzi's mother in Lemon Popsicle and its sequels.

She won Ophir Awards for supporting roles in The Revenge of Itzik Finkelstein in 1993 and Sand Birds in 2015. In 2020 she gave her private archive to the National Library. She had 2 children and 4 grandchildren, and died in 2023.