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Israeli Actress
Dies Of Cancer

Times of Israel — Award-winning
Israeli actress Ronit Elkabetz died
April 19 at age 51
following a pro-
longed battle with
cancer.
Her death fol-
lowed two years of
a career high, as
her film Gett: The
Trial of Viviane
Ronit Elkabetz
Amsalem won
Israel’s 2014 Ophir
Award for best
film and was selected as the Israeli
entry for Best Foreign Language
Film at the 87th Academy Awards
and nominated for the Best Foreign
Language Film at the 72nd Golden
Globe Awards in 2015.
Elkabetz, a dramatically beautiful
woman of Moroccan Jewish origin
with a head of jet-black hair, played
the main role in the film, which takes
place in the rabbinical courts, where
she is trying to obtain a religious
divorce from her estranged husband.
The film will be shown at 5 p.m.
Sunday, May 15, at the Berman
Center for the Performing Arts in
West Bloomfield as part of the JCC
Lenore Marwil Film Festival (see
story on page 37).

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SHARON “SHARI”
CHABEN, 79, of
Farmington Hills,
died April 17, 2016.
She is survived by
her husband, Bernard
“Butch” Chaben;
children, Amanda
Chaben
Perlin, Kerry Chaben,
Carolyn and Gary
Klinger, and Craig
Chaben; grandchildren, Alex, David,
Emily, Jack, Dylan, Ryan and Noah
Chaben, Brandon and Michael Schwartz,
Marnie and Max Perlin, Annie and Ari
Klinger; sister and brother-in-law, Lois
and Douglas Pye; many loving nieces
and nephews.
Mrs. Chaben was the beloved wife of
the late Albert Schultz.
Interment was at Beth El Memorial
Park. Contributions may be made to
Hermelin Brain Tumor Center-Henry
Ford Health System, 2799 W. Grand
Blvd., 11th Floor Neurosurgery, Detroit,
MI 48202, www.henryfordhealthsystem.
com/giving; or Hospice of Michigan,
400 Mack Ave., Detroit, MI 48201, www.
hom.org/donations. Arrangements by
Ira Kaufman Chapel.

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