Micha Shagrir

Micha Shagrir (Hebrew: מיכה שגריר) (November 1, 1937 – February 4, 2015) was an Israeli film director, producer, radio presenter, and journalist.

[2] Micha Shagrir was born in Linz, Austria as Josef Michael Schwager.

His father Karl Schwager emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1921, where he lived in kibbutz Heftziba and where he met Micha Shagrir's mother, Vally (Yehudit).

They returned to Austria in 1932 or 1933, but immediately after the Nazi's Anschluss, in April 1938 they emigrated to Palestine.

The father took the name Hanan, and the mother Yehudit[3][4] Micha Shagrir graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.