Israel Kantor Presents his Backgammon Board

Galilee The work portrays an optimistic vision of reconciliation and peace in Israel's north, populated by Jews and Arabs alike. He has transformed the rows of a chess board into the furrows of the fields, and replaced the castle imagery of the game with quiet homes, crops and fields.

Israel Kantor

Born in 1941- the seventh generation to a Jerusalem family.

During high-school years he studied graphics and drawing in the evenings at the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem. 

Throughout his long career as an attorney and the years in which he stood at the head of his own law firm in Tel-Aviv (considered one of the leading commercial law firms in Israel) and the public positions he filled from time to time, Israel Kantor maintained his interest in painting and in music. 

Studied painting with the artist Doron Bar-Adon at Avni Institute Art College in Tel-Aviv and with the painter Denil Gertman.

Studied music and conducting at the Music Academy of Tel-Aviv with Noam Sheriff and Vag Papian.

Lives and paints in Tel-Aviv