David Tartakover is an Israeli artist, graphic designer, and curator who lives in Tel Aviv and is especially known for his politically controversial posters. His work is found in permanent collections of museums in Israel and abroad and he has had solo exhibitions in Israel, France, Japan, China, Germany, Poland, and Russia. Tartakover received the Israel Prize in 2002. He has been a senior lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem since 1976.
Now I shall come to fulfill your desire by writing to you at length about the customs of the residents of the land of Israel; for although I also wrote to you by way of the pilgrims, and I sent them…
“It was then the morning of the second day of the war in Jerusalem. The horizon paled in the east. We were at the climax of the battle on Ammunition Hill. We’d been fighting there for three hours. A…