Kariel Gardosh ( he, קריאל גרדוש; April 15, 1921 – February 28, 2000) was an Israeli cartoonist and illustrator known by his pen name Dosh ( he, דוש). He worked as a political cartoonist for the Israeli daily newspaper ''

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'' and for the '' Jerusalem Post''. Gardosh is the creator of the character

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which became a symbol for

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s and the State of Israel, similar to

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in the United States.

Biography

Karl Goldberger ( hu, Gárdos Károly) (later Kariel Gardosh) was born in

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in 1921 to an assimilated Jewish family. With the outbreak of

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he and his family were arrested by the

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s. Gardosh was sent to mine copper as

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, and his parents and most of his family were killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp. In early 1946 he left

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and moved to

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. He studied comparative literature at the

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University. In 1948, Goldberger

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and changed his name to Kariel. In 1953 he joined the staff of the ''

Maariv ''Maariv'' or ''Maʿariv'' (, ), also known as ''Arvit'' (, ), is a Jewish prayer service held in the evening or night. It consists primarily of the evening ''Shema'' and '' Amidah''. The service will often begin with two verses from Psalms ...

'' 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 Yosef "Tommy" Lapid ( he, יוסף "טומי" לפיד, born as Tomislav Lampel, sr-cyr, Томислав Лампел; 27 December 1931 – 1 June 2008) was a Yugoslav-born Israeli radio and television presenter, playwright, journalist, politi ...

Ephraim Kishon Ephraim Kishon (: August 23, 1924 – January 29, 2005) was a Hungarian-born Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter, and Oscar-nominated film director. He was one of the most widely read contemporary satirists in Israel, and was also particula ...

and Yaakov Farkash (Ze'ev), were affectionately called "the Hungarian mob." In 1981–1983 Gardosh worked at as a

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at the Israeli embassy in

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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.

Awards and commemoration

Gardosh won the Herzl Prize, the Nordau Prize, the Jabotinsky Award and the Sokolow Prize in recognition of his work.

External links

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BiographyOnline access to over 3,000 of Dosh's original sketches
Dosh Archive,

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