Wissenswertes

Returned to Israel in the late 1960s and eventually retired.

Smoldering Israeli-born beauty who figured prominently in a number of b-movies of the late 1950s and early 1960s, including Gier nach Blut (1960), College Confidential (1960) and 3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt (1964).

Is the daughter of Yeshaiahu "Shaya" Blechman, a Russian-born Israeli professor of mathematics, and Rosa Blechman.

Majored in art, history, and languages at the University of Tel Aviv.

First acted on stage billed as Ziva Shapir.

In 1956, she became the first Israeli actress to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio, Universal-International.

One of four Israeli actresses who were famous in Hollywood in the 1950s. She made her American film debut in Pharaoh's Curse (1957), and was followed by Chana Eden in Sumpf unter den Füßen (1958), Haya Harareet in Ben Hur (1959), and Elana Eden in Das Buch Ruth (1960).