Nurit Yaari

Nurit Yaari (Hebrew: נורית יערי; November 13, 1947 - November 9, 2025) was an Israeli theatre scholar, dramaturge, director, artistic consultant, and professor in the Department of Theatre Arts at the Faculty of Arts at Tel Aviv University. Her main areas of research were classical Greek drama, classical and contemporary French theater, and Israeli theater. In 1983 she completed her Ph.D. at Paris 8 University, France, with thesis "Le Théâtre des Miroirs: Duplication et Dédoublement dans le Théâtre Occidental" supervised by prof.

Upon her return to Israel, she taught drama and theatre at Oranim Academic College in Tivon, at the Department of Humanities and Arts at the Technion, in the Department of Art History at the University of Haifa, and at Seminar HaKibbutzim in Tel Aviv. From 1988, she taught in the Department of Theatre Arts at Tel Aviv University, and in the 1990s, she also taught in the Department of French. In 2000–2001, she served as the head of the Multidisciplinary Program in Arts at Tel Aviv University; in 2000–2002, she managed the University Theatre, and between 2005 and 2009, she served as head of the Department of Theatre Arts. She played an important role in the renovation of the Israeli theatre archives at Tel Aviv University.

Books Nurit Yaari, Contemporary French Theatre 1960 – 1992, Paris: AFAA and Entr’Actes, 1995. Nurit Yaari, Le Théâtre de Hanokh Levin: Ensemble à l'ombre des canons Paris: éditions Théâtrales, 2008.

Death On October 26, 2025, Nurit Yaari went missing, last seen near the Ichilov Hospital, where she accompanied her husband. She had bad sight, but on the security cameras she was seen without her glasses. After over a week she was found severely weakened under a bridge over the Ayalon River. She was hospitalized at the Ichilov Hospital, but died there on November 9, 2025.