The president of Achoti, the actress and filmmaker Ronit Elkabetz died at the age of 51.
Elkabetz was born in Beersheba in 1964 to a religious Moroccan Jewish family originally from Essaouira. She grew up in Kiryat Yam. Her mother was a hairdresser and her father was a postal employee. Her mother spoke French and Arabic, but her father insisted on speaking only Hebrew. Elkabetz was the oldest of four children, with three younger siblings who were all brothers. Her younger brother Shlomi, became a director whom she worked with on their trilogy on the life of Viviane Amsalem.
She never studied acting and started her career as a model. She divided her time between her homes in Paris and Tel Aviv.
In 2015 she was selected to be the President of the Jury for the International Critics' Week section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. She won three Ophir Awards and received a total of seven nominations, In 2010, Elkabetz received a lifetime achievement award from the Israeli Film Academy for her contribution to Israeli cinema. In May 2010, and the France Culture award at the Cannes Film Festival, a prize awarded to filmmakers for quality work and social involvement.
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| Yedioth Tel Aviv Yaffo (22-04-2016): "Ronit, Our sister" |
