Moshe Zabari

Place: Jerusalem

Born: 1935

Biography:

Moshe Zabari is an Israeli artist known for his silver Judaica. He studied under Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert and David Gumbel at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Zabari was artist-in-residence for almost three decades at New York's Jewish Museum. He returned to his native Israel in the 1980s. He is known for his modernist approach, and in 1990 he was awarded the Jesselson Prize for Contemporary Judaica Design. In 2015, Zabari was honoured with a Retrospective at the Jerusalem Biennale.