Yaky Yosha

Yaky Yosha was born in 1951 in Tel Aviv

Yaky Yosha was born in Tel Aviv in 1951. As a teenager he formed a band with his friend Yankul Goldwasser. Together they made several independent short films, among them The End and The Killers, based on a story by Hemingway.

In 1972 he directed his first feature, Shalom, an independent film in which he played the lead and his wife Dorit produced and co-starred. It was released right after the Yom Kippur War and failed at the box office. It came to be regarded as the first political Israeli film.

His film Rockinghorse from 1978 was the first to represent Israel at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes. The Vulture from 1981 dealt with the commemoration of fallen soldiers and caused public anger, and it was shown censored in Israel. Dead End Street and Summertime Blues followed in 1982 and 1984.

In the mid-1980s he moved to Los Angeles, where he directed the thriller Sexual Response in 1992. Back in Israel he wrote and directed the TV drama Night Fare in 1995 and the film Bloodguilt in 1997. In 1999 he filmed police patrols for the documentary series Cops.

In 2000 he directed the documentary Inherit the Earth about the Pope's visit to Israel, and in 2002 The Main Suspect about police chief Alik Ron. His first novel, Still Walking, came out in Hebrew in 2008. His feature Walking, based on it, premiered in 2010.