Nili Tal
Israeli journalist and documentary film director-producer (1944–2024)
Nili Tal (Hebrew: נילי טל, née Herman; 15 January 1944 – 7 March 2024) was an Israeli journalist and documentary film director and producer. Her great-grandfather was Sigmund Weinberg, a pioneer of Turkish cinema.
In December 2022, Tal received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Forum and in May 2023 she received a similar award from the Ministry of Culture and Sport (Israel).
She died on 7 March 2024, at the age of 80.
Career
Journalism
Tal began her journalism career at the Israeli Haaretz daily newspaper in 1965, where she spent ten years. She also contributed as a freelancer to Yedioth Ahronoth and Maariv. She then moved into the television industry and began to work for the Israeli Broadcasting Authority, the sole television network in Israel at the time. She was one of the directors of Mabat Sheni (מבט שני; "Second Look") a current affairs program.
Documentaries
In her 1984 documentary Eyal, she interviewed a narcotics addict. It was the first time a scene of injecting street drugs was shown on TV in Israel, which brought the problematic issue of drug use into public debate.
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