Joram Rozov

Joram Rozov was born in 1938 in Hadera

Rozov was born in Hadera in 1938. His father grew citrus and his mother was a kindergarten teacher. As a youth he studied music and played violin and viola in symphonic and chamber groups.

After his army service he studied art at Bezalel in Jerusalem from 1958. In 1962 he went on to Florence, where he studied painting, drawing and printmaking at the art academy and art history at the university.

Back in Israel he designed mosaic walls for the Hadera city hall and began teaching at Bezalel in 1965, later serving as deputy director and dean of students. In 1966 he led Israeli art students to Florence to help save art after the flood. From 1971 to 1973 he taught in Cape Town and completed an MFA there with a thesis on war in art.

He taught in New York from 1978 and returned to Bezalel in 1980, becoming associate professor in 1983. His realist paintings show landscapes, plants, pilots and soldiers. He also illustrated for newspapers and advised on the appearance of IDF bases and the Prime Minister's Office.

He retired from Bezalel in 2003. He lives in Jerusalem, is married to the artist Shirley Faktor, and they have 2 children.