Bio

 

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Solo Exhibitions

• 2024 –For The Living and the Dead Tel Aviv, Artists' House. Curator:Dr Zivi Berman.

• 2014 –Venus Reaches UpTel Aviv, Artists' House. Curator: Liav Mizrahi.

• 2014 – There Is a Reasonable Suspicion of Disturbance, Tel Aviv, Gal-On Gallery.

• 2011 – Town Square, Tel Aviv, Artists' House

• 2010– Sacred Mothers, Ramat Hasharon, Public Space Installation, Weizmann Blvd, in honor of the International Day against Violence Against Women. Curator: Sorin Heller.

• 2009– Not for Sale, Tel Aviv, Public Space Installation on the exterior wall of Artists' House.​

• 2007 – Sacred Mothers, Tel Aviv Out door installation on the exterior wall of

• Artists' House.

• 2007 – May 25, 2006, Tel Aviv, Artists' House. Curator: Zipora Luria.

• 2005– Calendar Girls, Tel Aviv, Outdoor  Installation on the exterior wall of Artists' House.

• 1999 – Imagination/Simulation, Tel Aviv, Hava Raucher – Painting, Horit Herman Peled – Digital Art, Artists' House. Curator: Nechama Golan.

• 1994– Testimony, Rishpon, Arsuf Gallery.

• 1993 – Migration, Wilfrid Israel Museum of Asian Art and Studies. Curator Gabriel Maanit.

• 1993 – Hava Raucher Works, Rishpon, Arsuf Gallery.

• 1992 – Painting, Tel Aviv, Sara Erman Gallery.

• 1985 – Self-Portrait, Jerusalem, Alon Shabtai Gallery.

• 1980 – Self-Portrait, USA, St. Louis, Steinberg Museum. Thesis exhibition, Washington University.

• 1981 – Hava Raucher – Works, St. Louis, USA, Timothy Burns Gallery.

• 1981 – Self-Portrait, Chicago, USA,.N.A.M.E Gallery.

• 1980 –Sea, Light And Beach Chairs, Miami, Florida, USA, Ninety Nine Gallery.

• 1979 –Hava Raucher – Works, Soho, New York, USA, National Art Center.

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Group Exhibitions:

2023 - Biennale of Arts and Design Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
2020 - Art Takes Armory 2020"S/he Persisted…"See Me, New York, USA
2019 - And the Ship Still Sails Tel Aviv, House of Artists, Curator: Dalia Danon.
2019 - Women Create Reality Rishon Lezion, House of Artists, Curators: Dvora Morg and Anat Mendil.
2019 - The Ideal of Female Beauty and the Struggle to Preserve It

           Tel Aviv, Campus of Arts, Seminar Kibbutsim, Thesis Exhibition supervised by Sigal Barkai.
2018- With Our Voice, on Racism, Sexism, and the Multiple Exclusion of Women Tel Aviv, Beit Achoti, and Gallery MiCan, Sachnin,              Curators: Shula Keshet and Farid Abu Shakra.

2019    Once upon a time, I was Emek Chefer. Zuzu Gallery,  curator Rotem Ritov.

2018 - Athens in Tel Aviv Tel Aviv, Nave Shechter  Gallery, Curator: Shira Friedman.
2018 - With the Passage of Time  Rehovot, Municipal Gallery, Curator: Ora Kraus.
2017 - Hannah Orloff: Feminist Sculpture in Israel Haifa, Mana Katz Museum, Curator: Svetlana Reingold.
2016 - Being There Rishon Lezion, Gordon London House, Curator: Effi Gan.
2013 - Secularization of the Sacred - A Complete-Broken-Hybrid Israeli Body Ra’anana, Open University, Curator: Dr. Alik Mishori.
2010 - Seeing the Other Within Me Oranim College Gallery, Curator: Shir Meler Yamaguchi.
2009- When Light Met Shadow Holon, Children’s Museum.
2008 - Salt of the Earth Wilfrid Israel Museum of Art, Curator: Shir Meler Yamaguchi.
2008 - Blonde Ramat Hasharon, Beit Yad Lebanim, Curator: Inbar Dror Lax.
2007 - Oh, My Homeland 2007 Tel Aviv, House of Artists, Curator: Avner Bar Hama.
2006 - Chaos and Darkness Over the Abyss, Violence Against Women Ramat Hasharon, Beit Yad Lebanim, Curator: Shula Keshet.
2006 - Shadows and Silhouettes Jerusalem, Israel Museum, Curator: Ayana Friedman..
2006 - Transitions Tel Aviv, House of Artists, Curator: Galit Semel.
2005 - Across the Road Tel Aviv, Bimat Meitzag Miklat 209.
2004 -The Magic Rabbit Rehovot, Municipal Gallery, Curator: Yehudit Matzkel.
2003 - Exhibition of the Teachers' Union Jerusalem, Knesset Building.
2003 - The Art of Aging New York, Hebrew Union College Museum.
2000 - The Third Color Jerusalem, House of Artists, Curator: Ayana Friedman.
2000- The Language of Light and the Language of Shadow Moscow, Israeli Delegation to Moscow, Curator: Miriam Gamburd.
1999- The Israeli Delegation to the Autumn Salon Paris, France, Salon D'Automne Espace Eiffel-Brandy, Curator: Miriam Gamburd.
1997- Eye-Level Jerusalem, House of Artists, Curator: Nella Casuto.
1996 - Four Realist Painters (Mitch Becker, Israel Hirschberg, Shalom Falash, Hava Raucher), Haifa, Reuven and Edith Hecht Museum.

Curator: Prof. Avishai Eyal.
1995 - Gender Bent Jerusalem, House of Artists, Curators: Hagai Shegev and Nirit Nelson.
1995- The Crimson Line Ramat Eliyahu, New Art Workshop, Curator: Miriam Gamburd.
1990 - 18 Artists from Israel Berlin, Germany, "Die Pumpe".
1989 - Painting from Nature Rehovot, Smilansky Cultural Center, Curator: Ada Namani.
1986 – Rega 6 Tel Aviv, Rega Gallery.
1983 - Art International, Chicago Navy Pier Chicago, USA, Through Timothy Burns Gallery.
1981 - 34th Annual Mid-State Art Exhibition Indiana, USA, Evansville Museum, 1982   Mitchell Museum, MT. Vernon, Illinois. USA.

1981 - Thesis exhibition Washington University. Museum. Steinberg Hall, St. Lous, Missouri.

1977- New Faces Jerusalem, Jerusalem Theater, Curator: Yonah Fisher.
1976 – Climate Haifa, University of Haifa

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Awards, Scholarships, and Milestones

1981 – Bronstein Purchase Award Evansville Museum, Indiana, USA.

1977 – Young Artist Scholarship America-Israel Cultural Foundation.

1976 – Young Artist Scholarship Ministry of Education.

1976 – Young Artist Scholarship Sharett Foundation.

2014 - 2017 – Member of the Department of Plastic Arts, Ministry of Culture and Sports.

2015 - Member of the judging panel for the Young Artist Award the Ministry of Culture and Sports.

2014 - Member of the judging panel for the Artist in the Community Award the Ministry of Culture and Sports. 

2023 – Becky Dekel Award Association for the Study of Women’s Art and Gender. Israel.

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Collections

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USA, Indiana. Evansville Museum of Art and Science.

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Publications

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November 6, 2024 – Artist Hava Raucher in an exhibition that hides nothing by Gilad Meltzer, Haaretz.

 

November 12, 2024 – I experienced an encounter with death, it was not a difficult experience, even a very pleasant one by Dar Mosaffir, Y'net Art, Yedioth Achronoth. Israel.

Hava Raucher’s fearless art tackles identity, gender, and cultural taboo by Barry Davis, Jerusalem Post.

 

November 3, 2024 – Radio Gamken Tarbut On the Living and the Death an interview with Goel Pinto.

December-November 2024 – Can-Israeli Art Reality Magazine. Hava Raucher's On the Living and the Death at the Tel Aviv Artists House. Cover magazin and 6 pages.

 

July 31, 2024 – shocking by Gideon Ofrat, "Gideon Ofrat's Warehouse."

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2025 – Article by Dr. Mor Persiadu, "Wounded Matriarchs: Israeli Artists Hava Raucher and Sigalit Landau Confront the Sexual Violence of October 7, 2023." In It Hurts! GewaltgegenFrauen in Kunst und Psychoanalyse / Violence Against Women in Art and Psychoanalysis, edited by Elana Shapira and Daniela Finzi (De Gruyter, 2025).

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September 3, 2023 – "Hava Raucher: Migration as a Mental and Existential State" by Dr. Ruth Marcus, Erev Rav magazine.

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July 22, 2022 – "Aging and the Myth of Beauty in Western Art, Hava Raucher as a representative offeminist protest against the beauty myth and ageism in Israeli art. Lilach Ayala Shmueli, David Yellin Academic College, Jerusalem.

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2023 – Biennale of Art and Design, Catalog ,Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv.
 

​2022 – Between Flesh and Image: An Interview with Hava Raucher, Writing: Adi Cohen, Photos: Danny Derbi.Six Floor magazine.

2022 – Creators of Change: On Art and Activists in Israel, Book, Achoty Publishing.

September 2021 – Aging, Gender, Ageism, and the Body in Art The Visible versus the Invisible  by Liat Arlette Sides, Erev Rav Magazine.

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2020 –[I]maniot: Mothers Bringing Art into the World, Book, Gamma Publishing, Dr. Hadara Shaflan Katzav.

2020 – Women and Old Age, Gender and Ageism in Israeli Art by Dr. Tal Dekel, Lamda Publishing.

2020 – We will all reach old age, if we are lucky. by Dr. Tal Dekel, Portfolio Magazine.

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2018 – Once Upon a Time, Catalog, Zuzu Gallery, Curator: Rotem Ritov.

March 2018 – As Time Passes Catalog, Curator: Ora Kraus, Municipal Art Gallery, Rehovot.

November 2018 – Athens in Tel Aviv Catalog, Curator: Shira Friedman, Shechter Gallery, Tel Aviv.

2018 – To My Sister: Racism, Sexism, and the Marginalization of Women in the Visual Arts in Israel, Book, Editor: Shula Keshet.

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June 2017 – From Adam and Eve to Miri Regev: Why Nudity Provokes Such Emotions in Us by Yael Ben Israel, Published in Globe's magazine.

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July 2017 – Following Catalog, with articles by Irit Levin and Aryeh Berkovich.

June 2017 View of a naked body Lecture by Hava Raucher at the Hannah Orloff Seminar: A Feminine Perspective ,Mana Katz Museum.

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October 2015 – Being in Place Catalog, article by Effie Gan.

December 2014 – Out of the Frame, Haaretz Gallery Magazine.

December 2014 Hava Raucher: Works. Catalog, articles by Liav Mizrachi and Hava Raucher.

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October  2014 Hava Raucher: Magazine, Can-Israeli Art Reality.

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May 2013 "Secularization of the Sacred: A Physical Israeli Body: Whole-Broken-Hybrid" – Catalog, Dr. Alik Mishori, Open University.

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2011 City Square, Leaflet, article by Liav Mizrachi.

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October 2011  The clones have resurrected A conversation between Miriam Gambord and Hava Raucher, published in "Erev Rav." Magazine.

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October 2011 Spencer Tunick is Not Alone –City Square Full of Nakedness, YNET, Yedioth Achronoth .2011.

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2011  Broken Tools: Deconstructive Views on Contemporary Jewish Art" – Book, David Shperber, Bar-Ilan University.

December 2011  Gendered: Art and Feminist Thought – Book, Dr. Tal Dekel, Kibbutz Meuchad Publishing.

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2009  Multiple interpretations of the issue of akeda since the 1980s: political and social directions– Virtual Library of the Matach, The Center for Educational Technology, Mandel Leadership Institute, by Orna Silverman.

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October 2007 Sacred Mothers– Leaflet, article by Chava Pinhas Cohen.

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September 2007  Written in Amharic– Artists Write, Terminal 32.

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2006  May 25, 2006 – Catalog, Tel Aviv, Artists House, article by Zipora Luria May

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2003  The Centennial Exhibition – The Teachers' Organization, Catalog, Jerusalem, Knesset Building.

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May 2006  Maybe you should eat something. – Noam Avidan Sela, The City Mouse, Tel Aviv.

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May 2006 Anorexia, My Beloved – Liora Lopian, The Citymagazine,  Tel Aviv.

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April 2005  Tel Aviv Municipality Censored Works Depicting Elderly Women in Seductive Poses – Dana Gilerman, Haaretz.

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April 2005  Is There a Situation for the Golden Age? – Rinat Berkovich, The City magazine, Tel Aviv.

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April 2005   The Wall of Dispute – Andy Benika, Time Out, Tel Aviv.

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October 2003 THE ART OF AGING – Catalog, New York, Hebrew Union College Museum.

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November 2000   The Third Color – Catalog, Jerusalem, Artists House. Curator: Ayana Friedman.

August  2000   Language of Light and Language of Shadow – Israeli Artists in Moscow, Catalog, Curator: Miriam Gambord.

 

November 2001 About the Works of Hava Raucher – Zipora Luria, "Dimui" Journal, Issue 20.

November 2000  Golden Aging My Foot by Meir Ronnen, The Jerusalem Post Magazine.

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November 2000 The betrayal of the body– Dorit Sarid, Yedioth Ahchronoth.

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March 1999 Second Look – Hila Shkolnik, "Arim" Newspaper.

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March 1999 Imagination/Simulation – Catalog, Tel Aviv, Artists House, Exhibition No. 9 Encounters and Dialogues, Curator: Nechama Golan.

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October 1999 – The Autumn Salon in Paris Catalog, Israeli Artists Delegation.

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April 1999  From drawing to computer-aided installation– by Talia Rappaport, Axiom On line  Magazine.

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1997 At Eye Leve Catalog, Jerusalem, Artists' House. Curator: Nella Kasuto.

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January 1997  Teachers' Exhibition The Other Gallery, Catalog, Tel Aviv, Talpiot  College. Curator: Tzipora Luria

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.May-July 1996  Four Realist Painters Catalog, Mitch Becker, Israel Hirschberg, Shalom Flash, Hava Raucher. Haifa, University of Haifa.

 

Curator: Professo Avishai Eyal. essays by Sanford S. Shimon and Professo Avishai Eyal.

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May 1996 The Realist Option by Angela Levine. The Jerusalem Post Magazine.

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May 1996  Is realistic art returning to mainstream? by Professor Avishai Eyal. Arbaal Hamesh.

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November 1996 Healing the Rift Catalog, Jaffa, Hands Gallery. Curators: Vered Shimron and Iris Nadel.

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May-June 1995  The Crimson Line Pamphlet, Ramat Eliyahu, The New Art Workshop. Curator: Miriam Gamburd.

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May 1995  Gender Bents Shades of Sexual Identity. Jerusalem, Artists' House. Curators: Nirit Nelson, Haggai Segev.

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October 1994  Testimony Catalog, Rishpon, Arsuf Gallery. essay by Chava Pninhas Cohen.

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November 1994  Just a Woman in a Foreign Land Michal Paltty, Haaretz newspaper.

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February 1993  The character, its location and its presentation Haggai Argov, Arim magazine. Rechovot.

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November 1994  Sometimes People Say It's Embarrassing Shula Frommer, Arim magazine, Rechovot.

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November 1994  All the Time, Time Orit Lutringer, Sharon Crossroads magazine.

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November 1994  On Hava Raucher's Exhibition at Arsuf Gallery

Gregory Ostrovsky, Arba al Hamesh magazine.

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February 1993  On the Bulletin Board Orit Lutringer,  Al  Hasharon magazine.

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May 1993  Hava Raucher, A Secular Icon Professor Avishai Eyal, Arba al Hamesh magazine.

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January 1993  Women of Intrigue by Angela Levine. The Jerusalem Post Magazine.

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November 1992  Hava Raucher Ruthie Director, Maariv.

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April 1992  To Classicism via Modernism Haggai Argov Arim magazine.

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April 1992  Hava Raucher Gil Goldfain, Jerusalem Post.

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March 1992  A Matter of Identities Shula Frommer, Cities newspaper.

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1989   The Place Affects Me Tzipora Luria, Dimui journal, No. 3.

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March 1985  Self-Identity vs. Image Oded Broshi, Yedioth Ahronoth.

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September 1983  Hava Raucher by John S. McFarland, New Art Examiner, Chicago, USA.

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1983  Artist Hava Raucher Draws From Her Own Experience by Sharon Burd, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

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October 1981 Self Portrait / A Frame of References by Nancy N. Race, New Art Examiner, Chicago, USA.

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The artist's publications

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November 1996 – Reflections on a paper museum,  By Hava Raucher. Published in the Art Magazine Studio Issue 76.

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November 1998 – Some reflections following an invitation to One Coffee and 18 Artists., By Hava Raucher. Published in the Art Magazine Studio Issue 97.

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November 2010  Paganism in the Holy of Holies  By Hava Raucher. Published in the online magazine Erev Rav.

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November 2012 – Andy and Sandy, Warhol in New York, 60 Artists, One Hurricane, and This Thing Called Art, By Hava Raucher. Published in the online magazine Erev Rav.

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December 2012 – Girl of the Month, By Hava Raucher. Published in the online magazine Erev Rav.

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March 2013 – Old and Angry Women, By Hava Raucher. Published in the online magazine Erev Rav.

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June 2020 – Hava Raucher, I Learned Not to Fear and Make Friends with Death. Published in Portfolio Magazine.

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June 2021 – Hava Raucher, Hospital Diary with Pictures (and a Little Fever),The Librarians: The Musach, Literary magazin. Published in the National Library Blog, 2020.

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February 2023 – Eva.  By Hava Raucher  Published in the blog "My Eyes" by the Association for the Study of Women’s Art and Gender.

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October 2023 – Israel Goes to War, The Artist Hava Raucher in a Short Story. Published in "Writing the Situation", Israeli Art House.​​