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Israeli dollmaker Nana Warszawski was commissioned during the pandemic to make a collection of figures in memory of a customer’s parents who had both died of COVID-19, within four days of each other, according to The Times of Israel. Warszawski produced 14 dolls for family members made from articles of clothing that had belonged to the client’s parents. “I’m not a therapist, I just make dolls,” Warszawski told The Times of Israel. “But there are some dolls that really enter my life. People tell me their stories and how can you ever Nana Warszawski of Project Creatures, her get tired of that? Jerusalem business And sometimes that upcycles fabric people come and and textiles into dolls bring me their and creatures. fabric and don’t tell me anything at all.” Warszawski sees her work as a way to reuse fabrics and textiles
Today in Israeli History May 15, 1947 The United Nations establishes its Special Committee on Palestine, which four months later recommends the partition of Mandatory Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. May 16, 1916 Britain’s Mark Sykes and France’s Charles Georges Picot complete the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement to divide the former Ottoman territories in the Middle East after World War I. Palestine falls under British control.
while giving biggest and best art exhibitions openthem new life, ing in 2021 around the world, accordbut continuing ing to The Times of Israel. The Tel Aviv the stories and exhibit is a joint collaboration of Stumemories asdio Kusama in Tokyo and the Gropius sociated with Bau in Berlin. them. When a The exhibit will include works child, teen or created by Kusama over the last 70 adult connects years, including drawing, painting, Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts // with the quirky, sculpture, installation, and cinema elfin doll made Yayoi Kusama’s “Infinity Mirrored and fashion. “Her entire oeuvre is Room — Love Forever,” part of for them, there’s mesmerizingly powerful, impressive an exhibit of her work coming no better satisand pleasurable at the same time,” to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. faction, Warszasaid Suzanne Landau, curator of the wski said. exhibition and the museum’s former director. The dolls start at 300 shekels ($90) for “The presentation of her retrospective at the customized work. Customers can also come Tel Aviv Museum of Art is definitely a unique to Warszawski’s Jerusalem studio and work event of historic magnitude.” Kusama is the on the doll with her. most tagged artist on social media, and she is widely seen as one of the most popular modJapanese Artist Gets Retrospective ern artists.
at Tel Aviv Museum
A large retrospective of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, whose work was recently featured at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, will be on display at two buildings of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in November. Over 200 pieces of her work will be featured during the exhibition, ranked one of the May 18, 1965 Syria hangs Israeli spy Eli Cohen in a public square in Damascus. Cohen, who had infiltrated the highest levels of Syrian society as businessman Kamel Amin Thaabet, was arrested in January. May 19, 1966 President Lyndon Johnson’s administration announces the first U.S. sale of warplanes to Israel. The A-4 Skyhawk light bomber enters service in Israel in 1968. May 20, 1948 The U.N. Security Council makes Count Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish diplomat, the mediator for peace efforts during Israel’s War of Independence. He arranges a truce in June but is assassinated in September. May 21, 1963 Zalman Shazar, a native of Belarus and former Knesset member for the Mapai party, is elected Israel’s third president, succeeding Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, who died a month earlier during his third term in office.
Menachem Begin casts his ballot in the 1977 Knesset election, won by his Likud party.
May 17, 1977 Likud claims an upset victory in the Knesset election, putting Menachem Begin in a position to become prime minister and end three decades of leadership by Mapai (the predecessor of Labor) and its allies on the left. 18 | MAY 15, 2021 ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES
May 22, 1970 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists attack an Israeli school bus near the Lebanese border, killing eight children and four adults. May 23, 1969 Hanin Zoabi, a Balad member of the Knesset
Israel Plans to Reopen to Tourists This Month
Tourism Minister Orit Farkash-Hacohen unveiled a four-part plan to reopen Israel to tourists April 27, including a global advertising campaign, flight incentives, and the reintroduction of large international events, acfrom 2009 to 2019, is born in Nazareth. She is the first Arab woman to win a Knesset seat as part of a predominantly Arab party. May 24, 1948 Inexperienced Israeli soldiers attack the Jordanianheld hilltop fortress at Latrun to relieve the siege of Jerusalem. Using outdated tactics without air support, the assault fails, and about 75 Israelis are killed.
cording to The Times of Israel. “We want to breathe oxygen back into the tourism economy of Israel, and Israel has the advantage as a healthy, vaccinated country,” FarkashHacohen said at the press conference last month. The plan is to allow vaccinated tourists and to target visitors specifically from the United Arab Emirates, United States and the United Kingdom, where there are a large
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An El Al plane at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel.
percentage of vaccinated populations. There is some contention over the rush to allow tours back, with the Health Ministry recommending the delay of the relaunch until June because of new COVID variants, particularly one from India. Part of the global advertising campaign to get tourists to come to Israel will include the slogan: “2020 Holy Moses, 2021 Holy Land.”
mayor from 1965 to 1993, is born in a Budapest suburb. Named after Theodor Herzl, he moves to Palestine with his family in 1934 to escape Nazism.
May 25, 2010 Jazz artist John Zorn hosts opening night of New York’s first Israeli Jazz Festival at The Stone, his venue. The five-day festi- Photo by Shervin Lainez val celebrates the many Israelis who Anat Cohen was one of have risen to the top of the world the featured performers at the inaugural Israeli jazz scene. Jazz Festival in New
May 28, 1999 The Israeli submarine Dakar, which disappeared with 69 sailors in January 1968, is discovered between Crete and Cyprus almost 9,800 feet beneath the surface of the Mediterranean Sea. May 29, 1911 Poet Leah Goldberg is born in Königsberg, Prussia, now Kaliningrad, Russia. She begins writing poetry around age 12 and is a published writer before she moves to Tel Aviv in 1935.
May 26, 1924 Congress passes York in May 2010. the 1924 ImMay 30, 1972 Three Japamigration Act, which nese Red Army terrorists hired by the Popular restricts immigration Front for the Liberation of Palestine kill 26 based on a nation’s people at the international airport in Lod. The percentage of U.S. resi- victims include 17 Christian pilgrims from dents in the 1890 cen- Puerto Rico. ì sus. Most Jewish newcomers are blocked, and Palestine becomes Items are provided a more popular destiby the Center for Israel nation. Education (israeled.org), The shattered school bus is May 27, 1911 Tedwhere you can find more searched after an ambush near the dy Kollek, Jerusalem’s details. Lebanese border May 22, 1970.
