Kvutsat Avoda (Work Group) Theater Ensemble 
קבוצת עבודה
Home for new Israeli Drama

Our goal from the start was to bring to the stage complex and relevant issues from the community itself, explore them in depth, reflect them back to the audience of community members to surface thoughts and emotions allowing meaningful discourse about these issues.

Jewish playwriting is not a distinct category or separate genre, but rather a diverse field of theatrical creation that emerged from the unique encounter between the universal world of theatre and the traditions of Jewish creativity, discourse, and interpretation, as well as the Jewish worldview shaped by the experience of living as a minority. When we speak of Jewish plays in Israel, we usually mean works that engage with Jewish history, the sources of our culture, or the li

By Dr. Eldad Shidlovsky* : Yossi Yzraeli’s starting point is the study of theatrical experience, whereas Emmanuel Levinas’s starting point is philosophy and ethics. Despite the differences between them in almost every possible biographical parameter, I was surprised to find lines of similarity and points of contact in the thought of Levinas and Yzraeli Yossi Yzraeli is a director, playwright, poet and professor emeritus in the Theater Department at Tel Aviv University. The fi