Short answers, pulled from the story.
Habima Theatre started as an amateur troupe in 1912 when Nahum Lazarevich Tsemakh gathered a group of actors in Białystok. The group chose Hebrew for their performances and faced immediate bans from Russian authorities.
The main building of Habima Theatre occupies Habima Square in the center of Tel Aviv, Israel. It serves as one of the first Hebrew language theatres ever created and houses multiple auditoriums including Rovina, Meskin, Bertonov, and Habima 4.
Habima Theatre became the national theatre of Israel in 1958. That same year it received the Israel Prize for theatre which was the first year the Prize was awarded to an organization.
Architect Ram Karmi was commissioned to redesign the historic building of Habima Theatre before its reopening on the 1st of November 2011. More than NIS 100 million was invested in the makeover which added 500 square meters of floor space and three new rehearsal rooms.