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During Iftach Leibovich\u2019s childhood in Jerusalem, the family would play a board game called Havila Higiya<\/em> (“A Package Arrived”). The premise was this: You receive a letter stating that something reached the post office and to come pick it up. Along the way, you confront obstacles to attaining the package: missing identification papers, needing a new photo for the ID and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game was all too realistic for Israelis used to the daily struggles of accomplishing basic tasks in a bureaucracy-laden society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was the stupidest game and the most brilliant game,\u201d said Leibovich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Havila Higiya<\/em> was created by Ephraim Kishon, still acclaimed as the greatest humorist, satirist and social commentator in Israel\u2019s history. Kishon, who died in 2005, was born 100 years ago this month.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ephraim Kishon in 1966, photo<\/a> by Boris Karmi, the Meitar Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

One of his legacies is that Leibovich is the artistic director of the Israel Comedy Festival in Honor of Ephraim Kishon, a week-long celebration held each August at Jerusalem\u2019s Incubator Theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event includes lectures and stagings of Kishon\u2019s work, along with contemporary comedic plays and stand-up appearances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experts tie Kishon\u2019s keen observations of society, from the perspective of an average Israeli, to his being an outsider. Kishon was a Holocaust survivor from Hungary whose name \u2014 he was born Ferenc Hoffmann \u2014 was Hebraicized by a port official upon immigrating in 1949.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Chaim Topol and Esther Greenberg in the film Sallah Shabati<\/em>, written and directed by Ephraim Kishon. From the Chaim Topol Archive, courtesy of the family and with the cooperation of the Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage, the National Library of Israel and the University of Haifa (colorization by MyHeritage)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

He quickly learned and mastered Hebrew and soon was penning columns in the language in local newspapers. He went on to write books and screenplays and make films. Two of the five movies he directed, Sallah Shabati<\/em> (1964) and The Policeman<\/em> (1971), which he also wrote and co-produced, earned Academy Award nominations as best foreign-language films.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A promotional poster<\/a> for the 1971 Oscar-nominated Hebrew film The Policeman<\/em>, written and directed by Ephraim Kishon and starring Shaike Ophir, the Jerusalem Cinematheque – Israel Film Archive Collection, available online via the NLI digital collection<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Ephraim Kishon pictured with Shaike Ophir and wife at the premiere of the film The Fox in the Chicken Coop<\/em>, May, 1978. Photo<\/a> by Danny Gotfried, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Family Book<\/em> (titled in its English translations as My Family, Right or Wrong<\/a><\/em>), Kishon\u2019s 1977 collection of essays and fiction stories about home life during his early years in Israel, is said to be the second-most-purchased book in Hebrew after the Bible.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Topol and Kishon with the Golden Globe, Maariv<\/em><\/a>, February 19, 1965, the Historical Jewish Press Collection at the National Library of Israel
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Both Leibovich and Ziv Hermelin-Shadar \u2014 who at the festival hosted podcasts discussing each of the films screened daily, dubbed \u201cKishoncasts\u201d \u2014 cited The Family Book<\/em> as a key influence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the first book Leibovich\u2019s father gave him \u2014 the boy was about 13 \u2014 and, \u201cfrom that, I became a big fan of Kishon,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hermelin-Shadar was about 10 when he first read it. \u201cIt\u2019s a book that\u2019s very Jewish and very family-oriented,\u201d he said. \u201cIt makes me laugh. Kishon, in his stories, is trying to live life, and other people are ruining it for him. He succeeds in capturing the wackiness \u2026 of Israeli society.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ephraim Kishon with Menachem Begin, Israel’s Prime Minister at the time, at the premiere of the film The Fox in the Chicken Coop<\/em>, May, 1978. Photo<\/a> by Danny Gotfried, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Such wackiness arose recently over a play scheduled for this summer\u2019s festival. The play\u2019s promotional poster unintentionally sparked a controversy Kishon might\u2019ve enjoyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The poster shows the faces of three men and the play\u2019s title, Naked<\/em>. The word is meant as a metaphor for the show\u2019s theme as a behind-the-scenes look at how a circus operates. No one is nude. But some Jerusalem residents presumed indecency and pressured the mayor\u2019s office to withdraw its funding for the festival and to shut down the show. Leibovich wrote a long letter defending the work and stressing that no one appeared naked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s poetic that this happened at a Kishon festival,\u201d he said. \u201cTo make a big deal about it was a farce. There was nothing for me to fight against because there was nothing to censor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The show\u2019s three performances proceeded as scheduled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ephraim Kishon with Yitzhak and Leah Rabin, at the premiere of the film The Fox in the Chicken Coop<\/em>, May, 1978. Photo<\/a> by Danny Gotfried, the Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israely<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Kishon\u2019s accomplishments went hand-in-hand with insecurity. Alongside placards of his films and plays on his office\u2019s walls appeared articles written by critics.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ephraim Kishon in his office, 1973. Photo<\/a> by IPPA staff photgrapher, the Dan Hadani Archive, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cHe felt he wasn\u2019t appreciated. He wanted more love from critics,\u201d said Hermelin-Shadar. \u201cHe was a great success, but felt that he wasn\u2019t accepted here as [such].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following his father\u2019s death at his summer home in Switzerland, Rafi Kishon was asked to develop a one-man show for Tel Aviv\u2019s Cameri Theater. As a veterinarian, he\u2019d spoken about animals on numerous television programs and was comfortable appearing before the camera. But writing and performing in the show, Ten Things You Didn\u2019t Know About Ephraim Kishon<\/em>, was extra-gratifying, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He performs it monthly at the Cameri \u2014 it\u2019s now titled Ephraim Kishon: Humor, Life and Films<\/em> \u2014 and accepts private bookings from groups. The appearances involve screening movie clips and telling stories about his father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat I say is unique about Ephraim Kishon\u2019s humor is that it unites Israelis of all types,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI take it as a compliment when I perform and people say, \u2018The apple didn\u2019t fall far from the tree.\u2019 It\u2019s a good feeling to walk in my father\u2019s shoes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ephraim Kishon in his office, 1971, photo<\/a> by Boris Karmi, the Meitar Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Leibovich, too, has walking in mind. For a Kishon festival, he\u2019d like to organize an interactive version of Havila Higiya<\/em>, with participants following the game\u2019s instructions to traipse around Jerusalem in an effort, challenging as it promises to be, to pick up a package at the post office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve dreamt of it,\u201d he said, \u201csince the first festival.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Writer-editor Hillel Kuttler can be reached at hk@HillelTheScribeCommunications.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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