Yitzhak Shamir
David Levine
1988

In this caricature, which appeared in the June 6, 1988, issue of the New York Review of Books during the first Palestinian intifada, David Levine depicts Yitzhak Shamir (1915–2012), the seventh prime minister of Israel, as a whip-wielding pharoah in a chariot with spiked wheels.
In this caricature, which appeared in the June 6, 1988, issue of the New York Review of Books during the first Palestinian intifada, David Levine depicts Yitzhak Shamir (1915–2012), the seventh prime minister of Israel, as a whip-wielding pharoah in a chariot with spiked wheels.
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David Levine
1926–2009
Born in Brooklyn, New York, David Levine was a caricaturist and painter whose works appeared in the New York Review of Books for more than four decades. A contributor to other periodicals and a book illustrator, Levine worked with ink, oil, and watercolor. He was particularly known for his witty drawings of politicians. Levine’s honors include the George Polk Memorial Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, the John Pike Memorial Prize, and the Gold Medal of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
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