Norman Jewison considered her for the part of Golda in Fiddler on the Roof (1971) but, after she
lost a leg in a terrorist attack on an Israeli airplane in Munich in
1970, had to cast Norma Crane instead.
Pictured on a 4.10s Israeli postage stamp (with first name spelled Channa) issued 8 December 2015.
Private she campaigned for peace.
In 1973 she was awarded the annual Israel Prize, regarded as the state's highest honor.
In 2000 she initiated and founded the Herzliya Theater Ensemble. She directed and participated in an evening of Alterman poems, and on an evening of Bertolt Brecht's works.