Menachem Zilberman

Menachem Zilberman (6 October 1946 - 13 January 2014) was an Israeli actor, comedian and songwriter. He grew up in Eilat and served in the IDF in the 1965 class of the Nahal troupe, after which he studied acting at Beit Zvi and began a career as a singer and actor. In 1971 he played the lead role of Shlomik in the first Israeli TV series 'Hedva and Shlomik', which gained great popularity and was adapted into a film. He was one of the founders of the Kaveret band and appeared in the 1976 cult film 'Givat Halfon Eina Ona'. In the second half of the 1970s he worked in advertising and served as a copywriter in Menachem Begin's 1977 election campaign. He had lived in Los Angeles since 2000 and died there of a heart attack on 13 January 2014, aged 67.