Meir Teomi Explained

Meir Teomi
Native Name:	מאיר תאומי
Native Name Lang:	he
Birth Date:	15 July 1898
Birth Place:	Nikolayev, Podolia, Russian Empire
Death Place:	Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine
Death Cause:	Terrorist attack
Occupation:	Actor
Years Active:	1933–1947

Meir Teomi (; July 15, 1898 – August 10, 1947) was a Russian empire-born actor and immigrant to Mandatory Palestine in 1919^[1] who was murdered during a terrorist attack in 1947. He was the father of Israeli actor .^[2]

Death

Teomi was performing on stage in the Hawaii Garden restaurant of Tel Aviv on August 10, 1947. An Arab gang from Al-Shaykh Muwannis stormed the cafe and shot five people dead, including Teomi.^{[3] [4]} Time magazine reported that it may have been "the first serious attack by Arabs on Jews since 1939."^[5] The Arab Falastin newspaper incorrectly reported that the attack had been done by Yemenite Jews against Arabs, leading to a wave of Palestinian attacks against Yemenites.^[6] The Haganah also carried out reprisals against Arab targets it believed were responsible for the attack.

Films and plays

• Sabra, 1933
• This Is the Land, 1935

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2019-10-10 . The Centennial of "The Jewish Mayflower" - the Zionist Celebrities on Board of the "Russlan" . 2022-09-18 . Museum of the Jewish People . en-US.
2. Web site: Oded Teomi to receive Life Achievement Award . 2022-09-18 . The Jerusalem Post JPost.com . 9 March 2011 . en-US.
3. Web site: Murder by the Yarkon River . 2022-09-18 . סגולה.
4. Web site: ⁨FIFTH VICTIM OF CAFE MASSACRE SUCCUMBS ⁩ ⁨The Palestine Post⁩ 12 August 1947 Newspapers The National Library of Israel . 2022-09-18 . www.nli.org.il . en.
5. 1947-08-18 . PALESTINE: End of a Dance . en-US . Time . 2022-09-18 . 0040-781X.
6. Book: Jacobson . Abigail . Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine . Naor . Moshe . 2016-12-06 . Brandeis University Press . 978-1-5126-0007-0 . en.