Yossy Sokolsky

Yossy Sokolsky was born in 1952

Yossy Sokolsky was born on July 23, 1952, and grew up in Bnei Brak and Yemin Moshe. His father, Yaakov Karl Heinz Sokolsky, volunteered for the British Army in World War II and was held as a German prisoner of war. Sokolsky also speaks English, German and Yiddish.

In the army he was a team commander in the Nahal reconnaissance unit. He studied acting at the Nissan Nativ Acting Studio and at HB Studio in New York. He later headed the Yiddish department of the Nissan Nativ school.

Sokolsky lived in New York from 1990 to 2000, where he hosted public singing evenings at a Manhattan restaurant. On screen he appeared in Ramat Aviv Gimel, Love Around the Corner and Munich, where he played Amitzur Shapira. He acted for 18 years at the Yiddishpiel Theater and appeared in plays such as The Dybbuk and Medea.

He divorced in 2000, and his former wife returned to New York with his 2 children. He lives in Maccabim near Modiin. He is the CEO and a tour guide of the travel company Cool Tours.