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‘The Blessing of a Broken Heart’ comes home: Sherri Mandell’s 2003 classic is brought to the Israeli stage

Deborah FineblumMarch 30, 2022

What makes the play work is that the story is “both highly personal and universal—one family’s loss and the trauma of terror, a story that’s heart-wrenching and inspiring at the same time,” says Yael Valier, creative director of Theater and Theology.

The play, in theaters around Israel, is based on Mandell’s book of the same name reflecting on the aftermath of the day when the bodies of her 13-year-old son Koby and his 14-year-old friend Yosef Ishran were found beaten and battered in a cave near their homes in the Gush Etzion community of Tekoa. Photo by Karen Feldman.

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