The protagonist is haredi artist Akiva Shtisel, who dreams of quitting his job as a teacher in a heder (ultra-Orthodox primary school) to pursue a life as an artist, and in doing so, repeatedly comes up against the limits of ultra-Orthodox society. Immediately after the attack, the gallery had all the names of the 250 or so Hamas hostages called out in a performance and written on a black canvas. When he discovered the remains of a family in Kibbutz Kissufim, he began to paint two soldiers protecting a child on the soot-blackened wall of the burnt-out house.
Author: BY NICHOLAS POTTER
Published at: 2025-05-19 21:48:23
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