Omer Goldman Granot, from the

Tel-Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

suburb of

Ramat HaSharon Ramat HaSharon ( he, רָמַת הַשָּׁרוֹן, ''lit.'' '' Sharon Heights'', ar, رمات هشارون) is a city located on Israel's central coastal strip in the south of the Sharon region, bordering Tel Aviv to the south, Hod HaSharon t ...

, is an Israeli actress. She was a member of the Shministim, a young

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who became famous for being the daughter of Naftali Granot, former deputy to

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’s chief

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. She was sentenced to 21 days in military prison for refusing to serve the

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on 22 September 2008, along with Tamar Katz and Mia Tamarin. She is one of about 40 high school students who signed the 2008 high-school seniors’ ("Shministim") protest letter. In order to prepare herself for her

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in a

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, Goldman went to a

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every week. She has spent a second term in prison for refusing to serve again. She notes that the crucial moment of her political awakening occurred when she went to the

Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

village Shufa where the

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had set up a roadblock and fired

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on a Palestinian demonstration. From 2014 to 2018, Goldman was the female lead in the Israeli TV series ''Shchuna'', and in 2018, she appeared as a regular in the first season of

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. Aside from working as an actress Goldman also started to work as a director since 2020. For the tv series ''Palmach'' she did not only act in 4 episodes but also directed 11 episodes herself.

Filmography

* 2013: Bitter Lemon (short) * 2014-2018: ''Shchuna'' (TV series, 101 episodes) * 2017: ''Hachaverim Shel Naor'' (TV series, 1 episode) * 2017: ''Shilton Hatzlalim'' (TV series, 1 episode) * 2018: ''False Flag'' (''Kfulim'') (TV series, 6 episodes) * 2019: ''Esau'' * 2021: ''Palmach'' TV series, 4 episodes)

References

First Person: Omer Goldman
- Financial Times 2008-11-22
''Father, forgive me, I will not fight for your Israel''
- The Sunday Times 2008-12-10 (archived)
december18th.orgwhywerefuse.org
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Ed Asner Eddie Asner (; November 15, 1929 – August 29, 2021) was an American actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild. He is best remembered for portraying Lou Grant during the 1970s and early 1980s, on both ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' an ...

''The Shministim''
- Huffington Post 2008-12-16

- ''The Current'' (2009-1-8), a radio program of CBC with Anna Maria Tremonti

External links

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