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Dec. 16, 2020
Yaakov Agmon, a cornerstone of Israeli theater, died on Wednesday at the age of 91. Agmon was the head of the Cameri and Habima theaters and a founder of the Beit Lessin Theater, which originally belonged to the Histadrut labor federation.
Among his best known productions were “House of Dolls,” Kinneret, Kinneret” and “Twelfth Night” for the Cameri Theater, and “Waiting for Godot,” Death of a Salesman,” “Tango” and “Black Box” for Habima.
“Habima National Theater mourns the passing of Yaakov Agmon, who headed Habima Theater from 1995 to 2005, and husband of the great Habima actress Gila Almagor-Agmon. Agmon took the reins of the national theater after a great economic and artistic crisis,” the theater said in a statement.