Shai Avivi is an actor, comedian, and television personality. Avivi first became a household name in the early 1990s as one of the first TV presenters on the country’s then-new Children’s Channel and later, when he joined the cast of the now-iconic TV satire programme, The Cameric Five. In 1996, he appeared in the episode ‘Skin Deep’ of Etgar Keret and Ran Tal’s mini-series, Short Stories about Love and in 2000, starred in the critically-acclaimed hit series, The Bourgeoisie. Later, Avivi was made Head of Content for Israel’s Channel 10 and went on to appear in countless films and TV series including Sweet Mud (Dror Shaul, 2006), Atomic Falafel (Dror Shaul, 2015), One Week and a Day (Assaf Polonsky, 2016), and Longing (Savi Gabizon, 2017).

Documentary

Wake Up, Grandson - Letters to my Rebellious Rabbi

Directed by Renen Schorr, 2024
המעורר - רומן מכתבים בין סב לנכדו
Rental English subs.

92 min.

Short Film

Skin Deep

Directed by Etgar Keret, Ran Tal, 1996
מלכה לב אדום
English subs.

40 min.

Feature

August Snow

Directed by Hagai Levi, 1992
שלג באוגוסט
Rental

77 min.