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Yitzchak Rabin / Benjamin Netanyahu
Raffi Lavie
1996
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Raffi Lavie played a prominent role in shaping avant-garde art in Israel. A founder of the 10+ group in 1965, he was a central figure in the “want of matter” school, promoting collage and the use of inexpensive materials such as plywood. Many of his paintings are characterized by the erasure of images, with scribbles, carvings, and broad strokes of color. Lavie’s work has been featured in more than eighty solo exhibitions and was the subject of a special retrospective at the fifty-third Venice Biennale in 2009.
The wooden synagogue in Kamionka Strumiłowa was built in the late seventeenth century. Its walls were covered in colorful paintings and, as in most wooden synagogues, the bimah occupied a central…
Jaffee was best known for his photographs of people and cityscapes. In this photograph of empty benches, seemingly arranged for viewing an unknown event, he saw both an enigma and an abstract…
Nahalat Binyamin Street was the longest road in the city during Tel Aviv’s earliest years. In the 1920s, it was paved and became Tel Aviv’s main commercial street. Over the next few decades, new…