Jewish-American comedienne Sarah Silverman will be visiting Israel in December, Yediot Aharonot reported Thursday, to attend the gala screening of her Emmy-winning stand-up show, “Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles.”

Silverman will be in Israel on the 16th, according to the daily, to attend the screening at the Jewish Film Festival in Jerusalem. The festival, under the direction of Noa Regev, has been held every year since 1999. Silverman will speak to the audience after the screening, and is due to win a special award at the end of the evening for her achievements in comedy.

Silverman, 43, is considered one of the most controversial writers in American comedy and television in the past two decades. She began her stand-up career at the age of 19, and in 1993 (at 23) made her first steps toward television by being hired for the writing staff for the iconic show “Saturday Night Live.”

Silverman only lasted at SNL for one year, after none of her skits appeared in the 1992-1993 season of the show – a situation she later parodied on a 1996 episode of the Larry Sanders Show, portraying the writers as chauvinist. After this, Silverman’s career began to take off and she participated in numerous movies and TV shows in the mid-90s, including “Seinfeld” and “Star Trek: Voyager.” 

In February 2007, Silverman launched her own stand-up show on Comedy Central, “The Sarah Silverman Show,” to great acclaim. The show was nominated for an Emmy, but was cancelled after three seasons.  

This is not her first visit to Israel; in 2011, she attended the Conference of the President of Israel, and made an appearance in Tel Aviv.