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Yair Garbuz

Artist Yair Garbuz on July 17, 2023. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
April 29, 2026, 7:47 pm
Artist, left-wing activist and writer Yair Garbuz dies at 80
Known for his collages and an incendiary comment made at a 2015 rally, Garbuz stayed mostly out of public life for the last decade
By Jessica Steinberg
Members of the emergency services work to help victims on Westminster Bridge, alongside the Houses of Parliament in central London on March 22, 2017. (AFP Photo/Miklas Halle'n)
March 23, 2017, 3:01 pm
Israel on the Thames
Papers view the terror attacks in London through a decidedly local lens, while playing up the significance of its very un-Israeli location
By Joshua Davidovich
Yair Garbuz speaks at the 85th birthday celebration of Israeli artist and sculptor Dani Caravan, at the Tzavta Theater in Tel Aviv, December 18, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
March 22, 2017, 2:21 pm
Bennett bars anti-‘amulet kissers’ artist from receiving Israel Prize
Yair Garbuz, who raised hackles with what many believed to be a racist address at a 2015 election rally, nixed from running for prestigious award
By Jacob Magid
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, June 13, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)
March 22, 2017, 2:11 pm
Tiring of the coalition crisis
Kahlon appears to compromise, but the Hebrew media’s heart is no longer in the matter, and some are preoccupied by laptops
By Ilan Ben Zion
Likud Member of Knesset Miri Regev at a political conference at Tel Aviv University, January 18, 2015 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
June 19, 2015, 1:52 am
Calling artists ‘tight-asses,’ minister escalates culture clash
Miri Regev terms artistic community ‘ungrateful’ and says she ‘doesn’t feel like working for them’
By Daniel Bernstein
Shas party leader Aryeh Deri shakes hands with Joint Arab list head Ayman Odeh during the swearing-in ceremony for the 20th Knesset, March 31, 2015. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 6, 2015, 6:26 am
The 20th Knesset — parliament of a splintered, tribal Israel
Two weeks after the elections, a searing look at the cultural discord that continues to characterize the Jewish state, motivated and mobilized voters, and has produced a new legislature of alienated, antagonistic factions
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Erez Biton, a celebrated Israeli poet, at the Sharon Hotel in Herzliya on November 19, 2014 (photo credit: Mitch Ginsburg/Times of Israel)
March 30, 2015, 11:23 pm
Poet Erez Biton first Sephardi to win top Israeli literary award
Blind, Algerian-born wordsmith to take home prestigious Israel Prize, amid spike in ethnic strife surrounding election
By Mitch Ginsburg
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to Channel 2 as Zionist Union head Isaac Herzog sits in the studio, March 14, 2015 (Channel 2 News)
March 19, 2015, 4:47 pm
Zionist Union leader claims Netanyahu fought dirty
Herzog cites a flood of ‘violent’ text messages and ‘lies, fear-mongering and malice’ for the Likud victory
By Judah Ari Gross
Zionist Union head and Labor Party leader MK Isaac Herzog in Tel Aviv, February 17, 2015. (photo credit Amir Levy/FLASh90)
March 10, 2015, 2:09 pm
Tide is turning for Zionist Union with 25 seats in new poll
Likud trails behind with 21; 49% of respondents believe Netanyahu most suited for PM, 36% prefer Herzog; Kahlon says ‘my recommendation will decide who gets the job’
By Jonathan Beck
Joshua Sobol in a photo from 2009 (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash 90)
March 9, 2015, 7:00 pm
Playwright derides ‘mezuzah-kissers’ as ‘fools’
Joshua Sobol says superstition a universal ‘disease’ and criticizing it isn’t racist, likens Bennett campaign to Nazism
By Marissa Newman
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