Ayelet Menahemi

Ayelet Menahemi (Hebrew: איילת מנחמי‎; born 1963) is an Israeli film director, producer, writer, editor, and actor.

Life and Works

Menahemi was born in Tel Aviv in 1963. She attended Beit Zvi School of Stage and Cinematic Arts, graduating with honors in 1985.

In 1986, she directed the award-winning 45-minute film, "Crows," followed by her first two feature films, "The Skippers 3" (1991) and "Tel Aviv Stories" (1992).

Other films directed by Menahemi include Noodle (2007) and It's About Time, (2001), which she also produced, and she acted in Ben Gurion Airport (1997). She wrote the screenplays for Noodle and Tel Aviv Stories.< Menahemi's work also includes numerous television commercials, short fiction films, documentaries and music videos.

In 1995, along with Eilona Ariel, she created the production company, Karuna Films. Among the films that Menahemi and Ariel have produced together is "Doing Time, Doing Vipassana" (1997), a documentary that "traces the effects of an ancient form of Buddhist meditation on a community of men inside an Indian prison."