Yigal Adika is a stage, film, and television actor. In the early nineties, Adika, a graduate of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Theatre Arts, starred in a number of high-profile film roles that went on to become box office hits, but his true claim to fame came when he landed the role of David Zlayet in Yossi Madmoni and David Ofek’s critically acclaimed drama, Bat Yam – New York (1995-1997), which he portrayed throughout the series’ entire three-year run.
In 2005, Adika and Madmoni teamed up to co-create Melanoma my Love – a miniseries based on Adika’s own true story (which he also starred in) about a couple navigating the wife’s terminal illness. Melanoma my Love was met with wide critical acclaim and went on to win the Israeli Television Academy’s Best TV Drama Award. In 2006, the series was recut into a film which then made the official selection for the Montreal World Film Festival, and the Haifa International Film Festival.
Highlights of his other TV acting credits include Jaffa Pictures, Miluim (‘Reserve Duty’), The Arbitrator, Alifim, Srugim, Good Cop (‘Hashoter Hatov’), Sirens, The ‘80s (‘Shnot HaShmonim’), Who Died?, and Checkout.
Highlights of his big screen credits include Shuroo (Savi Gabizon, 1990), Mad Dad III (‘Abba Ganuv III’) (Ayelet Menahemi, 1991), A Bit of Luck (Ze’ev Revach, 1992), Wanted: Four Legged Husband (Shimon Azulai, 1993), Dreams of Innocence (Dina Zvi-Riklis, 1994), Lovesick on Nana Street (aka Love Sick) (Savi Gabizon, 1996), Everlasting Joy (Igal [Yigal] Bursztyn, 1996), Dogs are Colour Blind (Orna Raviv and Yohanan Raviv, 1996), The BBQers (‘ha-mangalistim’) (Yossi Madmoni and David Ofek), The Gospel According to God (Assi Dayan, 2003), Wild Dogs (Arnon Zadok, 2007), Lost Islands (Reshef Levi, 2008), The Ballad of the Weeping Spring (Benny Toraty, 2012), and The Electrifiers (Boaz Armoni, 2019).
