the Israeli performing arts world and abroad. Awards and critical acclaim Almagor has received 10 Kinor David awards for her work in film and theater. She received the Life Achievement Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival in 1996, a Life Achievement Award from the Israeli Academy of Cinema in 1997, and the Silver Bear award for best actress in Summer of Aviya at the Berlin Film Festival. In 1995, Almagor received a National Jewish Book Award for Under the Domin Tree. In 1993, she was a member of the jury at the 18th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1996, she was a member of the jury at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1990, she was chosen Actress of the Decade by Yediot Ahronoth and the Israel Film Institute. In 2004, she was awarded the Israel Prize, for cinema. In 2005, she received a Hans Christian Andersen Ambassadorship. In 2007, she was awarded the Liberitas Film Festival Prize for Lifetime Achievement (Croatia). In 2009, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Tel Aviv University awarded her an honorary doctorate. Filmography El Dorado (1963), as Margo Sallah Shabati (1964), as Batsheva Ha'Sosialit (social worker) Trunk to Cairo (1965), as Yasmin The House on Chelouche Street (1973), as Clara Life According to Agfa (1993), as Daliah Munich (2005), as Avner's Mother See also List of Israel Prize recipients Women of Israel References External links Gila Almagor's Short Bio in Hebrew 1939 births Israeli children's writers Israeli film actresses Israeli stage actresses Israeli television actresses Israeli people of German-Jewish descent Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent Israel Prize in cinema recipients Israel Prize women recipients Jewish Israeli actresses Jewish Israeli writers Jewish novelists Jewish women writers Living people Israeli women children's writers Israeli women novelists