Old Jaffa (👴 Father’s Piece)

On the relief – “I remember that I probably did it more as an urban exercise – it was to get accepted to Bezalel. My father said I wouldn’t get accepted (my father tried to dissuade me: “You can’t make a living from this,” he knew that as he himself was an actor). I still went to the Bezalel admissions test with a “portfolio” of works I had done. One of them is the urban exercise of the city of Jaffa – cardboard on cardboard (painted in white) on a black background.

There is a sea, a boat (and a sail), a pier, old buildings of Old Jaffa and mosques.”

A little general expansion related to Bezalel:

Father: ”In addition to ‘Jaffa’, I also did some work that was geometric squares of all sorts of colors (for that matter, it reminds of Piet Mondrian works) and also something with clay. Later, I received a letter in the mail from Bezalel that I had been accepted. However, due to my father’s veto and the inability to pay for my studies (both studies and living in Jerusalem), the idea was abandoned but was later realized for a trip to the US where I studied something else (BSc) which is a continuation of the studies that I started as a “Nature Studies” at the Kibbutzim Seminary with “Sociology” in Washington University in St. Louis” and received “BSc in Sociology“.

Me: My father studied at the Seminar HaKibbutzim in the realistic major “Nature Studies” to receive a teaching certificate (this is not a bachelor’s degree). After that, he completed two more years in the US to receive a BSC in science (currently equivalent to “Biology” degree). After that, he continued studying for a master’s degree (MSC) for another field – sociology + criminology. My father also started a doctorate (PHD) there in the same field but, he finished years later in Israel.

England close-up

Hebrew (Original) Name: יָפוֹ הָעַתִּיקָה