Don't Call It Night

The Cast

Theo (of Planning Ltd.)

Noa Dubnow (teacher)

Malachi (Muki) Peleg (estate agent and investment consultant)

Avraham Orvieto (defence adviser or perhaps arms-dealer)

Erella Orvieto (his wife)

Immanuel Orvieto (their son, former secondary school pupil)

The Orvieto family's chimpanzee

Immanuel Orvieto's dog

Elazara Orvieto (aunt and former bank clerk)

Ron Arbel (lawyer)

Ludmir (retired employee of the electricity company, member of many committees)

Gusta Ludmir (his wife, gives private math coaching)

Larlach Ludmir (his granddaughter)

Linda Danino (clerk, divorced)

Nehemia Dubnow (retired employee of the water company)

Chuma Zamosc Bat-Am (militant vegetarian and pacifist)

Yoshiahu (Yoshku) Zamosc (born-again Jew)

Peeping Gorovoy (former champion weight-lifter of Lodz)

Ezra Zussman (poet) and his wife

Batsheva Dinur (the Mayor)

Didi Dinur (her husband, killed in the Six Day War; apparently a musician)

Batsheva's elderly mother (retired teacher)

Etam (Batsheva's grandson)

Nawwaf (who has brought olives from Galilee)

Julia and Dr. Leo Dresdner, and Dr. Nir (the last two are dentists)

Dubi Weitzman (notary and accountant)

Yehuda and Jakki (Hollywood Photos)

Kushner (bookbinder)

Schatzberg (pharmacist)

Avram (falafel seller lately also shawarma in pitta)

Shlomo Benizri (from the Department in Beersheba)

Doris (Benizri's secretary)

Tikki (a typist)

Pudgy policeman (from the road accident at Ashkelon junction)

Martha (from Elat, apparently a drug user)

'Aatef (a Bedouin tracker)

Alharizi (formerly a house owner in Tel Kedar, now an importer of televisions in Netanya)

Natalia (immigrant, a cleaner)

Her husband and his father (immigrants, mechanics)

Gilboa (newsagent and stationer)

Limor Gilboa (assists her father; cellist)

Pini Bozo (sells shoes)

His wife and baby (killed)

Albert Yeshua (the soldier who killed them)

Blind Lupo (from the telephone exchange)

Anat and Ohad (a young couple)

Bialkin (sells furniture)

Gustav Marmorek (alias old Elijah)

Violette and Madeleine (hairdressers, sisters-in-law)

Hungarian cantor

Paula Orlev (Desert Chic Fashions)

Tal Orlev (her daughter; between school and military service)

Jacques Ben Loulou (Ben Elul's Garage)

Bargeloni Bros (estate agents)

Pini Finkel (killed in the War of Independence)

Nimrod Finkel (his son, head of the Planning Agency)

Cherniak, Refidim and Arbel, Lawyers (90 Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv)

A professor and piano tuner (writing a book entitled The Essence of Judaism)

Amalia (ailing librarian)

Young man from Galway (travelling around Galilee, looking for a girl named Daphne)

String quartet (immigrants from Kiev)

Man crying in Jeep