David Tartakover

David Tartakover was born in 1944 in Haifa

David Tartakover was born in Haifa in 1944. His father, Jacob Tartakover, was a lawyer, and his mother, Alexandra Shulamit, was a teacher and the sister of Tony Cliff. When he was 4, the family moved to Jerusalem, where he attended the Hebrew University High School.

From 1962 to 1964 he served in the Paratroopers. He then studied design at the London College of Printing and also studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.

He returned to Israel in 1968 and joined the team that set up Israeli television, then settled in Tel Aviv. He designed album covers for Arik Einstein, opened a studio in Tel Aviv in 1975, and taught at Bezalel from 1976. His 1978 Independence Day poster "Shalom" and the Peace Now logo became widely known.

He made political posters expressing views of the Israeli left, curated exhibitions on visual culture, and collected thousands of Israeli posters. In 1992 he was elected chairman of the Graphic Designers Association of Israel. He received the Israel Prize in 2002 and the Shulamit Aloni Prize in 2021.

He was married to the artist Jennifer Bar Lev. He died of Parkinson's disease in 2025 and was buried in Kiryat Shaul cemetery in Tel Aviv.