Background
Naftali Bezem was born in Essen, Germany, in 1924. Naftali immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1939, at the age of fourteen with a Youth Aliyah group. He was married to Chana Liebermann and had a son.
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Naftali Bezem
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Education
From 1943 to 1946, he studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem with Israeli painter Mordecai Ardon. He then spent three years studying in Paris.
Career
In addition to painting and sculpture, Bezem created murals, wall reliefs, tapestries, and stained glass windows.[4] His most famous public works include a wall relief at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and the ceiling mural in the main reception room at the President's Residence, Jerusalem.
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Connections
He was married to Chana Liebermann and had a son Yitzhak. Bezem's son was killed in the 1975 Zion Square refrigerator bombing in downtown Jerusalem.
