Arieh Navon

• Name — Arieh Navon אריה נבון • Education — Isaac Frenkel's art studio • Known for — Cartoons, paintings • Awards — Israel Prize, Dizengoff Prize • Birth Name — Arieh Kligman • Born — May 22, 1909 • Died — November 29, 1996 • Birthplace — Dunaivtsi, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire

Navon was born as Arieh Kligman in 1909 in the town of Dunaivtsi (now modern-day Ukraine), the son of Malka, daughter of Rabbi Yitzhak Meir of Ostburg, and Moshe HaCohen son of Yitzhak Kligman. He immigrated to Israel with his family in 1919 (age 10) on the ship "Ruslan". Studied art in Yitzhak Frenkel's studio in Tel Aviv in the late 1920s.

He has hundreds of paintings, mostly drawings in ink or charcoal, and dozens of portraits of public figures, writers, actors and artists. A selection of them appears in his book "Records". A film based on his drawings called "The Way of a Singer in the Desert" was created in 1956, in collaboration between him and Yaakov Agam and Aryeh Mambush. He taught drawing at the Avni Institute and the Oranim Kibbutz Seminary. Navon participated in many exhibitions in Israel and around the world. A solo exhibition was held for him at the Israel Museum in 1978. Eli Eshed suggests that a cartoon by Navon published in Davar on May 7, 1948, showing an old couple of Palmachniks telling tales to their grandson, was an inspiration to the famous song Hayu Zmanim. He died in Tel Aviv in 1996, at the age of 87, and is buried in the Yarkon Cemetery. A collection of letters sent to him is preserved in the National Library.

From 1970, he was married to Latah Tzipkevich. His son is the recipient of the Israel Prize in Psychology, Professor David Navon. His older brother was the educator Shmuel Navon. Another brother, Zev Navon, was also an artist and a painting teacher. Another brother was named Chaim.

Arieh Navon is recorded as illustrator, painter, designer, scenographer and cartoonist. Recognition and collections. Navon received Sokolov Award and Dizengoff Prize.