An Israeli Love Story

An Israeli Love Story
Adi Bielski in "An Israeli Love Story"
Written by	Pnina Gary
Place premiered	Givatayim, Israel
Original language	Hebrew
Genre	Autobiographical
Setting	1940s pre-state Israel

An Israeli Love Story is a play translated from the Hebrew play Sippur Ahava Eretz Yisraeli. It premiered in 2008 and still runs in repertory at Tel Aviv's Givatayim Theater and Cameri Theater.

The play was written by Pnina Gary and is based on her own true life story during the period between 1942 through 1948.

The one-woman show was directed by Pnina Gary herself, and it is still performed by Adi Bielski, who won the Israeli Best Actress Award in Fringe Theater in 2009 for this multi-character role.

On March 28, 2011, a special evening marked the celebrating of 250 shows. Attending that evening, were the Israeli Minister of Culture, Mrs Limor Livnat, and the recent winner of the Israeli Sapir Prize for Literature 2011, the writer Yoram Kaniuk.

The play was performed in English at The Leeds Jewish International Performing Arts Festival in 2009, at London's New End Theatre from May 18 to June 6, 2010, and at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa as well as Montreal,Toronto and Washington, DC, in September 2011. The show was also performed in the Harold Green Jewish Theatre in Toronto in 2014.