The sign is on the wall of the house where they lived:
Shimon Finkel - actor and theater director, born in Grodno, Belarus (1905-1999), immigrated to Israel in 1924.
Even before immigrating to Israel, he played in the theater, mainly in Yiddish.
He came to Israel from Berlin, where he was a member of a group of actors who wanted to establish a theater in the Land of Israel. In Israel he joined The Eretz Israel Theater, which he and his friends founded. Starting in 1928, he joined the "Habima" theater and was one of the senior actors there.
Winner of the Israel Theater Award (1969), the Israel Theater Award for Lifetime Achievement (1996) and other awards.
He was married several times, his first wife - Bat Ami Pugatchov lived with him in this house.
Bat Ami Pugatchov (Elyashiv) - theater and film actress, born in Warsaw, Poland (1906-1986), immigrated to Israel in 1924.
Immigrated to Israel from Berlin where she was a member of a group of actors who wanted to establish a theater in the Land of Israel.
She acted in Israel at The Eretz Israel Theater and later at the "Habima" theater.
The house where the couple lived was part of the workers’ dormitories, buildings built at the initiative of the Histadrut, built in the international style and inhabited by Histadrut activists and artists
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