Ruth Sagall

Ruth Sagall (Hebrew: רות סגל‎; 9 June 1929 – 7 August 2021) was a Polish-born Israeli actress of stage, screen and television.

[2] At age five, she won first prize in a young talent contest,[3] She was able to survive the Holocaust by disguising herself as a Christian Polish girl.

[4] In 1962, Sagall moved back to Israel,[6][7] and she was accepted as a member of the Haifa Theatre in the same year.

[3] Some of the roles she portrayed were those where she was a member of the lead cast,[8][9] such as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw.

She also starred solo in the plays The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir in 1981, Available for Proposals five years that was authored for her by Arie Yas and Leah Goes Out on the Street in 1992.

[9] Sagall's funeral took place at Haifa Cemetery in Tamar gate on the following day's evening.