David Reeb

David Reeb was born in 1952 in Rehovot

David Reeb was born in Rehovot in 1952 to Ora and Moshe. His father was a founder of the IDF manpower directorate and later lectured in psychology at Bar-Ilan University. After a stay in England in the late 1950s, the family settled in Ramat HaSharon.

He began making art as a teenager and studied art in high school with Rafi Lavie. In the 1970s he served as a tank crewman and was wounded in the Yom Kippur War. He studied at Bezalel from 1975 to 1978.

He lived in New York from 1980 to 1982. Since the 1980s many of his acrylic paintings have used press and television images of Israeli political life, including photographs by Miki Kratsman. He showed work at Documenta X and in solo exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum, the Israel Museum and the Haifa Museum, and taught at Bezalel and other art schools.

Since 2005 he has photographed protests in Bil'in, Ni'lin and Nabi Salih. He was arrested in August 2015 while documenting a protest and released the next day. He is married to artist Michal Goldman, has 2 sons and lives in Tel Aviv.