Ruth Farchi

Ruth Farchi was born in 1927 in Vienna

Ruth Farchi was born Ruth Zimmer in Vienna in 1927. In 1934 she moved with her family to Mandatory Palestine, where they lived in Wadi Nisnas in Haifa. Her brother was the Haredi thinker and journalist Uriel Zimmer.

In 1946 she studied kindergarten teaching in Jerusalem, and in 1947 she began working at a children's home. When the siege of Jerusalem closed the home, she joined the Haganah as a telephone operator. In February 1948 a bombing on Ben Yehuda Street near her apartment shattered its windows.

She married in 1951 and had 3 children. From 1968 she studied acting at the Kibbutzim College's School of Performing Arts, and she began acting in theater in 1972. For years she also produced and directed school plays.

She worked on 40 television and film productions, including Schindler's List, The Farewell Party and the short film Ave Maria, which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2016. On television she appeared in Kofiko, Traffic Light and Kupa Rashit.

She lived in Ramat Gan and died on 19 April 2021, at 93.