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Dan Hotel Tel Aviv (image source)

The H-shaped building was designed by Heinz Fenchel (1906-1988), an Israeli Jewish architect and interior designer. It was built in 1950-1964.

The colorful side of the hotel (the western facade, which faces the beach, seen in the photo above) was created by Yaacov Agam in 1986. The rainbow mosaic was renewed as part of the year 2000 renovations of the hotel.

Yaacov Agam was an Israeli Jewish artist and sculptor known for abstract, "Kinetic art" (art in motion), and "optical art". Agam was born in Rishon LeZion in 1928, and passed away on June 21, 2026.

Mercedes Sosa at the Tel Aviv Promenade during a visit to Israel. September 25, 1991. Photographer: Vered Peer.

Roman Kramsztyk, Old Jew with Children (Jewish Family in the Warsaw Ghetto), 1941

Roman Kramsztyk (רומן קרמשטיק) was a Jewish, Polish, artist, born in Warsaw in 1885. He studied art in Warsaw, Kraków and Munich. His art was influenced by impressionism, especially by French impressionist artist Paul Cézanne, and by Italian Renaissance art.

Kramsztyk lived mostly in Paris for many years, but remained connected to Poland. He visited Poland regularly and was a prominent figure in Polish art. Kramsztyk kept in close touch with his family. In 1939 he visited Warsaw to care for his dying mother. During his stay, after his mother passed away, the Nazis invaded Poland.

Alongside hundreds of thousands of Jews, Kramsztyk was put in the Warsaw Ghetto. Inside the ghetto he reconnected with his Jewish roots, after living most of his life as a Polish, European, man with Christian affiliation. As a painter he documented the suffering, hunger, horrific conditions, and death in the ghetto.

Roman Kramsztyk was murdered by Nazis on August 6th, 1942, during the deportation of Jews from the ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp, as part of "Operation Reinhardt."

Jakob Steinhardt, Sun, Moon, and Stars, Wood Engraving, 1951, 147x222 mm. (source)

Cotton Matzah Cover, Eretz Israel, circa 1920-1925. Yeshiva University Museum, New York. Source: Center for Jewish History on Flickr.

Leonard Bernstein on a visit to Eilat, Israel. June, 1950. Photographer: Benno Rothenberg (1914-2012).

Imre Ámos, Girl with Flower and Wall Clock, Ink on paper. (source)