Habimah National Theater

Habimah National Theater Review

The origins of Israel's national theater are rooted in the Russian Revolution, when a group of young Jewish actors and artists in Russia established a theater company that performed in Hebrew—this at a time when Hebrew was barely a living language. Subsequent tours through Europe and the United States in the 1920s won wide acclaim. In the late 1920s and '30s, many of the group's members moved to Israel and helped to establish the theater. The cornerstone was laid in 1935; the current large, rounded glass-front building, now undergoing extensive renovation and slated to reopen during Tel Aviv's centennial year, dates from 1970.