Juliano Mer-Khamis (Hebrew: ×''×•×œ×™× × ×• מר ×—'מיס‎; Arabic:
جوليانو مير خميس‎; born Juliano Khamis; 29 May 1958
â€" 4 April 2011) was an Israeli Jewish/Palestinian Arab actor,
director, filmmaker, and political activist of Jewish and Palestinian
Eastern Orthodox Christian parentage. On 4 April 2011, he was
assassinated by a masked gunman in the Palestinian city of Jenin,
where he had established The Freedom Theatre.Juliano Khamis (later
Mer-Khamis) was born in Nazareth, the son of Arna Mer-Khamis, a former
Palmach combatant who had turned communist on experiencing
disenchantment with Zionism after participating in operations to drive
the Bedouin out of parts of the Negev, and Saliba Khamis, an Israeli
Arab of Eastern Orthodox Palestinian Christian descent who was an
intellectual as well as one of the leaders of the Israeli Communist
Party in the 1950s. He was called Sputnik Khamas at birth. He had two
brothers, Spartacus and Abir. His maternal grandfather was Gideon Mer,
a scientist who pioneered the study of malaria during the British
Mandate. His father abandoned their household when he was 10 years
old. He attended school in Haifa. His cousin is Palestinian hip-hop
singer Shadia Mansour.Mer-Khamis was married to Jenny Nyman, a Finnish
woman who did administrative and fundraising work for the Jenin
theater. They had three sons. Khamis saw the birth of one son, but was
killed when his wife was pregnant with their twins. She gave birth to
the twins a month after his death, and moved to Haifa to raise them.
جوليانو مير خميس‎; born Juliano Khamis; 29 May 1958
â€" 4 April 2011) was an Israeli Jewish/Palestinian Arab actor,
director, filmmaker, and political activist of Jewish and Palestinian
Eastern Orthodox Christian parentage. On 4 April 2011, he was
assassinated by a masked gunman in the Palestinian city of Jenin,
where he had established The Freedom Theatre.Juliano Khamis (later
Mer-Khamis) was born in Nazareth, the son of Arna Mer-Khamis, a former
Palmach combatant who had turned communist on experiencing
disenchantment with Zionism after participating in operations to drive
the Bedouin out of parts of the Negev, and Saliba Khamis, an Israeli
Arab of Eastern Orthodox Palestinian Christian descent who was an
intellectual as well as one of the leaders of the Israeli Communist
Party in the 1950s. He was called Sputnik Khamas at birth. He had two
brothers, Spartacus and Abir. His maternal grandfather was Gideon Mer,
a scientist who pioneered the study of malaria during the British
Mandate. His father abandoned their household when he was 10 years
old. He attended school in Haifa. His cousin is Palestinian hip-hop
singer Shadia Mansour.Mer-Khamis was married to Jenny Nyman, a Finnish
woman who did administrative and fundraising work for the Jenin
theater. They had three sons. Khamis saw the birth of one son, but was
killed when his wife was pregnant with their twins. She gave birth to
the twins a month after his death, and moved to Haifa to raise them.
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