Play "Moradot" – Haifa Theatre in collaboration with Tumix Theatre
A dramatic and funny play by Amnon Levy, on Thursday, December 17, 2026, at 8:30 PM at the Tel Mond Cultural Hall. A group of Haredi women fights to save their friend.
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“The Rebels” — a new Israeli play by Amnon Levy for the 2026–2027 subscription season.
In Mea Shearim, a group of women decides to rebel against the community’s leadership in order to save one of their friends from an unhappy and abusive marriage. They use the only ancient and effective weapon at their disposal: abstaining from their husbands. They refuse to go to the mikveh and begin a campaign of abstinence from marital relations until their friend is released from the bonds of her marriage.
“The Rebels” is a moving and funny drama by Amnon Levy, portraying a women’s struggle for equality in the most unexpected place. The women of the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood decide that the value of mutual assistance to a woman in distress outweighs even the commandment to be fruitful and multiply. They courageously confront the men, endure ostracism and persecution, and nevertheless continue their struggle despite the heavy price.
Levy, who wrote “Sheindele”—one of the Israeli theater’s greatest successes—returns to the ultra-Orthodox woman in Mea Shearim and documents her struggle for independence.
Levy drew inspiration for the play from a similar campaign of abstinence from marital relations that recently took place in Satmar, New York, demanding the release of an agunah. The campaign succeeded and astonished the ultra-Orthodox world.
Cast: Shlomo Bar-Aba, Rona-Lee Shim’on, Henry David, Tali Sharon, Nati Kluger, Noa Rabinovich, Meir Toledano, Gil Weiss
Director: Yehezkel Lazarov
Playwright: Amnon Levy
Thursday | December 17, 2026 | 20:30
Tel Mond Cultural Hall
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