Israel Zohar – Nude at the Window

Israel Zohar is a painter born in Kazakhstan on February 7, 1945. He spent the first several years of his life travelling between various countries of Eastern Europe in what is now the former Soviet Bloc. At around the age of three he and his parents settled in Nesher, a small village in the north of Israel. He grew up with an interest in chess and Classical music, cultural phenomena that were foreign to his little village. As a teenager he began to express interest in art, and participated seriously in athletics and basketball. He was not allowed to finish high school, for reasons that are historically unclear. At the age of 18 he went to the Army, and narrowly escaped court-marshal after some military maps of Syria and Lebanon disappeared from his patrol jeep. In 1967 he fought in the Six Day War.