Elly Kenner

Elly Kenner was born in 1948 in Jerusalem

Elly Kenner was born in Jerusalem on October 7, 1948. During the siege of the city, his pregnant mother and his father found shelter in the Monastery of the Cross. He attended Gymnasia Rehavia.

He started a pilot course when drafted and later served in an artillery battalion. He studied psychology and theater at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1972 he enrolled at Boston University, where he earned a master's degree in film.

His feature film Falling won a cinematography award from the American Society of Cinematographers. He moved to Hollywood, where he edited films for the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women. His second feature, The Black Room, came out in 1983.

Kenner returned to Jerusalem in 1984 and later directed the series Hello Jerusalem. In 1992 he began producing The Sixth Dimension, a weekly program on mysticism and alternative medicine on Channel 2. In 1996 he produced and directed his third feature, Who Is the Father?

From 1988 to 2011 he was a news editor at the Jerusalem bureau of France 2, editing more than 3500 reports. In 2003 he published a book about life in Hollywood under a pen name. In July 2011 he was elected president of the Rotary Club of Jerusalem.