Geula Nuni (1942-2012) was a successful actress and singer who mostly appeared in films and onstage. Nuni started doing theatre in her teens and even before enlisting in the army and joining its musical ensemble, Lehakat Hanachal, she starred in the box-office hit, I Like Mike (Peter Frye, 1961.) Nuni later joined Israel’s national theatre, Habima and went on to star in the hit musical, Irma la Douce which gave her huge public exposure. In 1964, she appeared in Ephraim Kishon’s Sallah, that would become one the most successful Israeli films of all time. She later continued appearing in a long list of films including A Night in Tiberias (Herve Bromberger, 1965), Is Tel Aviv Burning? (Kobi Jaeger, 1967), Charlie and a Half (Boaz Davidson, 1974), Tzanani Family (Boaz Davidson, 1976), Sweet and Sour (Zeev Revach, 1979), A Thousand and One Wives (Michal Bat Adam, 1989), Buskila Twins (Ze’ev Revach, 1998), and Sima Vaknin Witch (Dror Shaul, 2003).
