Kariel Gardosh

Karl Goldberger (Gárdos Károly) (later Kariel Gardosh) was born in Budapest in 1921 to an assimilated Jewish family. With the outbreak of World War II he and his family were arrested by the Nazis. Gardosh was sent to mine copper as forced labor, and his parents and most of his family were killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp. In early 1946 he left Hungary and moved to France. He studied comparative literature at the Sorbonne University. In 1948, Goldberger immigrated to Israel and changed his name to Kariel. He later joined Lehi and participated in several operations. After the assassination of Folke Bernadotte, Goldberger was arrested for his membership in Lehi. He was released after the organization was amnestied in 1949. In 1953 he joined the staff of the Maariv newspaper where he published a daily political cartoon for many years. Gradually he began to engage in writing articles, stories and skits for the newspaper as well. Gardosh and three of his colleagues at Maariv - Yosef Lapid, Ephraim Kishon and Yaakov Farkash (Ze'ev), were affectionately called "the Hungarian mob." In 1981–1983 Gardosh worked at as a Cultural attaché at the Israeli embassy in London He had two children with his first wife, Shoshana Roman, and lived with his partner Tova Pardo until his death of heart failure on 28 February 2000, at the age of 78.

Kariel Gardosh is recorded with the occupation caricaturist. Recorded as caricaturist, illustrator and cartoonist.