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Yair Garbuz

Yair Garbuz was an Israeli visual artist, writer, author, humorist, and opinion journalist. He was a recipient of the 2004 EMET Prize in painting and was director of the HaMidrasha Art School at Beit Berl College for 12 years.

Early life and education
station, Haifa Yair Garbuz was born in Givatayim, Mandatory Palestine on September 29, 1945. His parents were immigrants from Poland. His siblings included Aharon Harel, who went on to serve as a member of the Knesset from 1981 to 1988, and Alon Garbuz, the manager of the Tel Aviv Cinematheque. From 1962 to 1967, while a member of Kibbutz Kfar HaHoresh, he studied painting under Raffi Lavie. He also attended the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv. ==Career==
Career
From his debut exhibition in 1967, ==Death==
Death
Garbuz died on 29 April 2026, at the age of 80, as a result of a prolonged illness. ==Awards and recognition==
Awards and recognition
Garbuz was described as "adept in the poetics of loneliness, constantly lighting fires that signal from one mountaintop to the next an ironic wish to belong." • Sokolov Prize for journalism (1993) • for literature, awarded by the Municipality of Holon (2001) • Emet Prize (2004) ==Published works==
Published works
Always Polish (1989) • Expected Changes in My Distant Past (2020) • Terribly Beautiful (2025) ==See also==
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