- He had homes in Paris, France and Jerusalem, Israel.
- He is survived by his wife, Anne Atik; two daughters-Alba Smail, and Noga Simonetta and two grandchildren.
- He was awarded the Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor in 2005 by the French government for his services to art.
- His works are in the National Portrait Gallery, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- He was born into a German-speaking Jewish family. When he was 12, he and his family were deported to a Ukrainian concentration camp. He coped with this grim existence by drawing on scraps of paper. His sketches got the attention of the International Red Cross, and he was released from the camp with a group of children. He was taken to live on a kibbutz in Palestine.
- He studied art in Jerusalem, and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
- He fought and was wounded in Israel's war of independence in 1948.
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