Shlomo Bar-Aba

Shlomo Bar-Aba, 2008

Shlomo Bar-Aba (Hebrew: שלמה בראבא, born July 11, 1950) is an Israeli comedian, actor, dubber and TV host. Since 1978 he has been acting in the long-running Israeli entertainment television program Zehu Ze! (That's It!). He also regularly appeared in many Israeli theatres, TV shows, and in film.winner of an Ophir Award for his role in the film "Footnote" and two Television Academy Awards for his roles in the series "Uri and Ella" and the series "Six Zeros".

Biography

Bar-Aba was born in Hadera and raised in Netanya to Holocaust survivor parents as the eldest son with two younger sisters. He was named after his paternal grandfather, who was the chief rabbi of the city of Lodz. In his youth, he studied drama at the Renanim School of the Arts in Tel Aviv. After the school's attempted closure in 1967 and its relocation from its permanent building, he completed the twelfth grade at Thelma Yellin High School.

Bar-Aba began his military service as a trainee in the IDF Air Force pilot program. After dropping out, he transferred to the Central Command Band and participated in its program "Red Alinio La'Bik'a" in 1969, in which he sang a solo on the song "Hamrlava". That same year, the band was chosen as the band of the year on Galei Tzahal. In 1970, he participated in another program of the Central Command Band - "By the Jordan River" ("Leyad Hayarden").

Career

Upon his release from the IDF, Bar Abba appeared in the play "The Corkscrew" alongside Uri Zohar and studied for a bachelor's degree in the theater department at Tel Aviv University. In the 1970s, he joined Nola Chelton's project in Kiryat Shmona. In 1972, he began performing in entertainment shows with Moni Moshonov, who had been his partner for many years, and appeared in Haifa Theater plays such as the social play "Crisis".

In 1975, he played with Moshonov in the episode "The Cashier" from the series "We also Judge".

In 1978, he began acting in the well-known television program "Zehu Zeh!" ("This Is It!") along with Moshonov, Gidi Gov and other actors, where he is best remembered for his character of "Yatsek", a kind of parody of a Zionist pioneer with a mustache, a Tembel hat, khaki pants and an accordion, who explained places in Israel from a humorous perspective. In 2011, Yatsek was voted 10th in the parade of the most beloved characters on educational television. Brava presented a crazy nonsense humor that inspired many entertainers after him. An example of his famous segment: he starts telling a joke about a Pole, a Kurd and a Swede traveling on a train, moves on to current affairs, and when he returns to the joke, the Kurd gets lost along the way.

Brava, together with Moshonov, staged several entertainment shows, including "Seeing Double," "Suddenly Together," "The Chicken and the Egg," and with other artists, "A One-Time Evening" and "A Conventional One-Time Evening."

In parallel with his entertainment career, Baraba appeared in theater plays: "And There Was a Hole", "Romeo and Juliet", "Crisis", "Twentieth Night", "Crumb", "The Cherry Orchard", "Oliver Twist", the Israeli musical (commercially produced by Menachem Golan), "The Campers", and "The Zalmanites" at the Haifa Theater, "The Good Soldier Svejk" and "The Comedians" at the Habima Theater, and "The Witch", the musical "The Producers", the musical "Something Funny Happened" and in the play "The Written" at the Cameri Theater.

In cinema, he participated in the films: "Stretcher Journey" (1977), "The Man Who Came to Take" (1981), "The Scroll 83" (1983), "Fictitious Marriage" (1988), "Cables" (1992), "Footnote" (2011), "Leap Up" (2014)[2], "Love in the Lakes" (2019) and "Aspiration for Life" (2020).

During the 1980s, he participated in the dubbing of the character of Bert from the duo Bert and Ernie on the children's television show "Sesame Street", and in 2004 he voiced the character of Sykes in the film "Shark Tale".

Selected filmography

• 1977 Paratroopers (film)
• 1983: The Megillah 83, musical
• 1988: Fictitious Marriage
• 1992:Cables
• 2011: Footnote
• 2014: Hill Start

2019: Love in Suspenders (Ahava Bi'Shlei'kes), romantic comedy

Awards

• 2023: Honorary Doctorate from the Bar-Ilan University to the participants of the program Zehu Ze!: Gidi Gov, Davala Glickman, Shlomo Baraba, Muni Moshunov and Avi Kushnir for their joint contribution to Israeli culture on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the state of Israel
• 2022: Israeli Academy of Film and Television Awards: Lifetime Achievement Award to Zehu Ze!
• 2021:Lifetime Achievement Award from The Israeli Actors' Association (Shaham)
• Ophir Award for Best Lead Actor in the 2011 film Footnote.
• Awards of the Israeli Television Academy for his roles in TV series Uri and Ella sand Six Zeros.

External links

• Shlomo Bar-Aba at IMDb
• Kvalim at IMDb