Sallah (1964)
Sallah Shabati (original title)

Cast

Credited cast:
	Topol	...	Sallah Shabati (as Haym Topol)
	Geula Nuni	...	Habbubah Shabati (as Geula Noni)
	Gila Almagor	...	Bathsheva Sosialit
	Albert Cohen
	Shraga Friedman	...	Neuman
	Zaharira Harifai	...	Frieda
	Shaike Levi	...	Shimon Shabati
	Nathan Meisler	...	Mr. Goldstein
	Esther Greenberg	...	Sallah's wife
	Mordecai Arnon	...	Mordecai
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Ya'ackov Banai
	Ya'ackov Ben-Sira
	Ya'ackov Bodo
	Mike Burstyn
	Arik Einstein	...	Ziggi

Storyline

The sharp, often hilarious satire that became the most successful film in Israeli history is about new immigrants Sallah and his family, who are left in a shack near their promised apartment and are abandoned for months. A Yemenite Jewish family that was flown to Israel during "Operation Magic Carpet" - a clandestine operation that flew 49,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel the year after the state was formed - is forced to move to a government settlement camp. The patriarch of the family, portrayed by Chaim Topol, tries to make money and get better housing, in a country that can barely provide for its own and is in the midst absorbing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries. Written by Fiona Kelleghan  

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