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eleven Gil arrived with his family in Palestine where they
settled in Tel Aviv. “I am a child of the Holocaust. The
Nazis invaded Poland when I was six. I moved around…
my parents managed to acquire, together with other
partners, a small fishing boat – but it sunk near Turkey.
Palestina was closed before us, and we were stranded
in Cyprus. We finally arrived at the country in 1944.” Gil
spent his youth in the framework of the Aliyat HaNoar
youth movement and in the kibbutzim Sha’ar HaAmakim
and Sarid. He spent his military service as an education
officer in the Southern Command, choosing, upon his
release not to return to the kibbutz. “I loved photography
and worked at the Government Printing Office as a
photographer where I used cameras moving on tracks
on glass panels to make pictures of Israeli bonds. At
one of my exhibitions I met Illana, who was showing her
paintings. Her father was the painter Zvi Livni. Gradually
we began to think about what to do for our livelihood,
which is when the idea of study came up. I completed
my matriculation exams in six months, enrolled on a

Drawings by Moshe Gil of his
Technion professors, early 1960s;
clockwise from top-right: Avia
Hashimshoni, Alfred Neumann, Al
Mansfeld, Aharon Kashtan

‫רישומים מאת משה גיל של פרופסורים‬
,‫; מימין למעלה‬60‫ ראשית שנות ה־‬,‫בטכניון‬
,‫ אלפרד נוימן‬,‫ אביה השמשוני‬:‫בכיוון השעון‬
‫ אהרון קשטן‬,‫אל מנספלד‬

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