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Like all other theaters in Israel, the Alfa Theater for Performing Arts were closed in Mar 2020 under \'coronavirus emergency regulations \' At this time, when no one can tell how, and if, any artistic organization will survive the crisis, it may be an appropriate moment to pause for a brief review of the past, in the hope that it is not an obituary for a life project gone The highly praised, unique and intimate fringe Alfa Theatre, residing in an industrial, unprivileged quarter of Tel Aviv, was initiated as a drama school The Academy of Performing Arts was launched by a group of theater artists as a nonprofit charity in 2010 All of its initial founders, well-known practitioners in Israeli theater, were resolved to train a fresh, new core of theater practitioners From the very start, the students included a variety of ethnicities, coming to Tel Aviv from all areas of the country, Jews and Palestinians together Several of the initial founders of the project had been part of the Haifa University Theater, which was closed by university authorities in 2004 after it insisted on mounting plays in Arabic side by side with the official Hebrew tuition language
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