Zahara Rubin

Zahara Rubin was born in 1932 in Beit Zera

Zahara Rubin was born in 1932 and grew up in Kibbutz Beit Zera in the Jordan Valley. In 1950 she finished high school at the Shomriya school in Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek.

She raised a family of 4 children and worked in various branches of the kibbutz. She then studied sculpture with Yaakov Epstein at the art institute in Bat Yam. Some years later she studied marble sculpture with Dalia Meiri at Emek Yizrael College.

Rubin works mainly in bronze, and also in wood and marble. She developed a relief painting technique and also makes soft painting, wool tapestries and black painted creatures on plywood. Her bronzes deal with human themes such as maturity, couples, fertility and parenthood, as well as growth in nature.

She is a member of the Israeli Union of Painters and Sculptors and of the Kibbutz Movement artists association. She has held solo shows in Israel, London and Hamburg. In April 1989 her sculpture Dove of Peace was given to Italian Prime Minister Ciriaco de Mita during his visit to Israel.

Rubin still lives and works in Kibbutz Beit Zera, where she has her studio.