Sallah Shabati, a Mizrahi Jewish immigrant, travels from Yemen to Israel with his family. Upon their arrival, they are taken to the camp and given a dreadful one-room tin house, where the ...

Topol ultimately lost to Gene Hackman, who won the award for his role in “The French Connection.” In 1964, Topol starred as Sallah Shabati in the Israeli-made film of the same name, which tells the ...