Culture & Education

Yuval the Confused discovers he was swindled out of hundreds of thousands of shekels: "To this day I'm paying for it"

After 30 years as one of Israel's biggest children's stars, Yuval Shem Tov already knows exactly his worth. After being stung repeatedly, he learned to harden the heart that made him famous, and in an unfiltered interview he talks about the price of innocence, the people who vanished when things got complicated, the credit he didn’t always receive, and what led him to agree to appear on Shabbat with "Magic of a Festival": "A producer told me, 'You do so well for kids – is that what will make God look at you differently?' That opened something in me."