Film and television Aloni had a breakout role as Adam Halevi for three seasons on the hit teen drama,
HaShminiya (2005–2007). He became a household name in Israel during his time on the show. The American film critic
Rex Reed praised the film in
The New York Observer: "It's one of the most powerful films about the Arab-Israeli conflict that has ever been attempted on the screen." Reed commended Aloni's "outstanding" performance. Already a hit show in Israel, it also became popular with international audiences when
Netflix began streaming the series in 2018. He spent three months preparing for the role: “I spent Shabbos with a Haredi family, and we needed to learn Yiddish and a different kind of Hebrew, loshen hakodesh, from the one we speak day-to-day. We learned prayers and the rules of Jewish law. We had to learn everything from scratch. I loved it.” In 2021, he appeared alongside
Jessica Chastain and
Oscar Isaac in the
HBO miniseries,
Scenes from a Marriage. It is an English-language remake of the
1973 Swedish miniseries of the same name by
Ingmar Bergman. He was cast as Gabriel Ermosa in
The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem (2021–2023). The series is set during
Ottoman rule and subsequently under the British
Mandate for Palestine. Aloni played the son of a prosperous merchant
Sephardi family. He fell in love with an
Ashkenazi woman, but is pressured by his family into marrying a Sephardi woman. In 2024, he appeared in the
Hulu limited series,
We Were the Lucky Ones, based on a book of the same name by Georgia Hunter. It tells the true life story of the Kurc family in
Poland who survived the
Holocaust. Aloni plays Selim, a doctor and the husband of Mila (
Hadas Yaron). Aloni previously played Yaron's on-screen husband when the pair portrayed the roles of Akiva and Libbi Shtisel in
Shtisel. He also starred in
One Day in October, an
anthology drama television series based on the personal stories from the
October 7 attacks in 2023. The series premiered on Israel's
Yes Drama in Israel on October 7, 2024. It will be released on October 7, 2025 in the United States through
HBO Max. In 2025, he starred in the
Buenos Aires-set series,
AMIA on
Channel 13, based on the
AMIA bombing in 1994.
Stage In 2014, Aloni starred in
Edna Mazia's comic satire,
The New Criminals at
Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv. Aloni plays Ilai, the grown up son of the family and an aspiring musician. In 2018, Aloni starred in
Martin Sherman's play,
Bent at
Habima Theatre in Tel Aviv. The play explores the
persecution of homosexuals during the Holocaust. In 2024, Aloni took on the role of Zaza (previously occupied by
Lior Ashkenazi) in a stage adaptation of
Dover Kosashvili 2021 film,
Late Marriage at Habima Theatre. In 2024, from September to October, Aloni starred in
David Edgar's play
Here in America at the
Orange Tree Theatre in
London. Aloni was directed by
James Dacre in the 1950's set play that imagines a confrontation between
Arthur Miller (Aloni) and
Elia Kazan. Aloni was praised by
The Guardian's theatre critic: "Aloni, making his UK stage debut, is strong as the upstanding art."
Additional work As a television presenter, he hosted five seasons of the singing competition,
The Voice Israel on
Channel 2 (2012–2017) and
Channel 13 (2018–2019). In 2017, his debut novel,
Love in the Days of Flu, was published by
Steimatzky. It consists of four novellas and two short stories. Aloni wrote one of the stories when he was 16-years-old. In 2017, he also directed a short film,
Shir (
Song), about a teenage girl that skips school on Israel's memorial day,
Yom HaZikaron. ==Filmography==