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...Israel’s spy chief David Barnea held talks with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman and CIA boss Bill Burns in Warsaw on Monday to discuss the hostages....
...At the Western Wall in the old city of Jerusalem this week, several dozen prayed with David Lau, Chief Rabbi of Israel....
...Rafalowski from Magen David Adom, Israel’s Red Cross/Red Crescent equivalent....
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...Its best-known artists were Chaïm Soutine and Marc Chagall. The collection comes from the two-generation art-dealing family office Nieszawer & Princ....
...Thanks to David Ben-Gurion, the nation’s founder, Haredi men study in yeshivas for years rather than serve in the military....
...The attack occurred at about 10pm on Saturday night as people gathered at the home of Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg in Monsey, north of New York City, to celebrate the seventh night of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah...
...“You can easily show the influence of Chaïm Soutine or Francis Bacon on Zhang Xiaogang [a well-known Chinese Modern painter],” Wong says....
...Chaim Herzog was twice Israel’s president. In 1945 he was a major in a British regiment that liberated a Dutch town where one of the Weinberg trustees’ parents were born....
...“We are believers,” says Chaim, who wears the skullcap of an Orthodox Jew. “We believed the rabbi.”...
...Ben Uri Gallery’s centenary exhibition features the best Chaïm Soutine in the UK — the violently tactile representation of a weary, wary maid, “La Soubrette” (1933), in white apron — and a rare Marc Chagall...
...Pictures here by Chagall, Jacob Steinhardt and Chaïm Soutine also attest to a similar resonance among 20th-century Jews – not just Jewish painters but critics such as Julius Meier-Graefe, Germany’s foremost...
...For David Hirst, author and former Guardian journalist, Bakunin’s warning captures Lebanon’s distinctive place in the troubled politics of the Middle East....
...A trawl through the Tory donors is interesting in terms of individual gifts: * Chaim “Poju” Zabludowicz, real estate magnate – and son of an Israeli arms tycoon – gave £100,000 in two instalments....
...Named after the country’s national poet, Chaim Nachman Bialik, the square contains one of Tel Aviv’s best-preserved clutches of Bauhaus-styled buildings, the now-iconic 20th century architectural genre for...
...For some artists, the emotional impulse in breaking that taboo was so strong that paint itself became transcendent, as in the work of Chaim Soutine, beaten as a child for trying to draw; he is represented...
...Art Fair runs this weekend, with a list of its 300 international exhibitors reading like a roll-call of those dealers who made 20th- and 21st-century art history, from New York’s William Acquavella to David...
...Chaim Soutine’s life was a fairy tale but the happy ending came in the middle. Before it lay a tragic beginning in a Lithuanian shtetl, where Soutine was beaten for daring to draw....
...The 28-year-old Harel raised the blue and white star of David, soon to be Israel’s flag, while loudspeakers played Hatikvah, to be its national anthem....
...The huge close-up “Eli and David” here, depicting his studio assistant David Dawson, beefy, blotchy, naked from the waist up, slumped in a chair with his tired-out whippet Eli in his lap, is as compellingly...
...Significant painters from Chaim Soutine to Paula Rego are absent....
...One “real” event of 1942 not given prominence here was the meeting at a New York hotel in May of that year attended by Chaim Weizmann and David Ben-Gurion which produced the Biltmore Program urging that...
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