Aliza Mizrahi () is a 1967 Israeli detective comedy film written, produced and directed by Menahem Golan.Amy Kornish and Costel Safirman, Israeli Film – A Reference Guide, Praeger, 2003, p. 186. The film belongs to the Bourekas film genre, a genre of Israeli comic melodrama films popular in the 1960s and 1970.

It is an adaptation of Golan's 1952 play, which was first produced by his Shdera Company. It tells the story of a cleaning woman, Aliza Mizrahi in a Tel Aviv office. Mizrahi becomes an amateur detective amid a series of mysterious murders.Ben-Simhon, Cody (12 June 2008). The Entertainer Haaretz. Retrieved on 6 April 2026.

Plot The firm of Green, Greenberg and Greenbaum is in trouble: large quantities of jam are missing from the storage. Worse, two of the senior partners are murdered. The incompetent inspector Klein (Avner Hizkiyahu) is trying to solve the case, without much success, while the cleaning woman Aliza Mizrahi (Edna Fliedel) conducts an investigation of her own and finds the culprit. Most of the film is set in Shalom Meir Tower in Tel Aviv, which was once the tallest building in the Middle East.

Cast Edna Fleidel as Aliza Mizrahi Avner Hizkiyahu as Police Officer Superintendent Yosef Klein Arieh Elias as Aharon Mizrahi Yossi Banai as Theodore Rothschild, photographer Arik Lavie as Yarkoni Uri Zohar as the Symbol of Matityahu Ziva Rodan-Shafir as Mrs Green Elisheva Michaeli as Malka Davidov Release Aliza Mizrahi premiered on March 23, 1967 at the Israeli Film festival in Ashkelon starring Edna Fliedel.Hollywood version, Maariv, March 27, 1967, p. 10. The premiere was attended by Israel's tourism minister and the mayor of Ashkelon. Aliza Mizrahi was the opening film of the festival.Maariv, March 23, 1967, p. 7.

Reception The film was a box office hit in Israel.

Stage productions Golan originally wrote the story as a theatrical play, and it was produced by his Shdera Company in 1952. In 2008, Golan revived the play and Shdera, returning to his theatrical roots. The revived version of the play starred the actors, Michal Zuaretz, Nir Levy, Albert Iluz and Tzachi Noy.

See also Cinema of Israel

References

Further reading Ido Rosen. "Tel Aviv Storeys: Skyscrapers and Heroines in Metropolitan Tel Aviv." Fireflies: Journal of Film and Television 1 (2018): 96–110.

External links Aliza Mizrahi in IMDb