Yehezkel Streichman (1906 - 1993). Israeli painter of Lithuanian birth. He emigrated to Palestine in 1924. From 1924 to 1926 he studied in Jerusalem at the Bezalel School of Arts and Design under Boris Schatz and Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970). Afterwards he studied at the Ecole Sp?ciale d'Architecture in Paris (1926) and attended the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence (1928). He returned to Kovno in 1931 and then in 1936 moved back to Palestine, settling in 1944 in Tel Aviv, where he became an influential force in the development of the NEW HORIZONS group, which sought to free Israeli art from its naive and Expressionist tendencies. Streichman won the Dizengoff Prize four times, as well as the Israel Museums’, the Sandberg, the Ramat Gan and the Milo Prizes.