Yehonatan Indursky


Yehonatan Indursky is an Israeli filmmaker and the creator of the successful Israeli drama series Shtisel, which was broadcast internationally by Netflix.

Early life and education

Yehonatan Indursky was born in Jerusalem, the youngest of five children, to an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family of the Litvaks branch. His father worked as a copy editor and was also a synagogue cantor. His maternal grandparents were Holocaust survivors of concentration camps.
He studied at the Ultra Orthodox Yeshiva Ponevezh in Bnei Brak, Israel,. Whilst a student at the yeshiva, Indursky encountered the secular poetry of Rachel Bluwstein at a public library, marking the beginning of his departure from Haredi religious practice. His parents did not reject him for his decision to become secular and invited him to live with them in their apartment, where he was not expected to live an observant lifestyle. He visited a movie theater for the first time, seeing the Holocaust drama The Pianist, where he was overwhelmed by the depiction of “our most broken days,”. He later studied at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, Jerusalem, Israel.
His final short movie that he made at the school, detailing the lives of two Haredi Men, was awarded the Best Film Award at the School's graduation and was screened at the Jerusalem Film Festival.

Career

Filmography

Awards

Personal life

Indursky has since resumed his observant lifestyle after twenty years, and now practises Hasidic Judaism.
He lives in Tel Aviv with his wife, Eva, an observant Jewish immigrant from France, as they favor the city's cultural liberalism. The couple have a daughter together.