Uzi Weil

Uzi Weil is a novelist, screenwriter, director, and newspaper and Internet columnist. He is one of the leading voices of Israeli literature.

 

Weil made his first literary debut in 1990, when he wrote a short story collection named, The Day They Shot the Prime-Minister — five years before it happened in real life.

 

In those years he also wrote the groundbreaking satire column, The Back Page, for Ha'ir weekly magazine.

 

His first TV debut as a writer was with the satire show, The Kameri 5. The show went on for five seasons, becoming Israel's most controversial TV comedy show ever.

 

Since then Weil has written many TV shows — among them the Israeli version of the BBC sitcom, The Office — published novels, short story collections, and satirical books, and translated to Hebrew the poetry works of Raymond Carver and Mark Strand.