Michael Kovner — Association of Jews of Vilna and vicinity in Israel

Born in 1948 in Ein HaHoresh, Michael is the son of Abba Kovner, a poet, thinker and a World War II partisan and Vitka Kovner, partisan and psychologist. Michael was named after his paternal uncle who fell while fighting with the Soviet partisans against the Nazis.

He served in the Sayeret Matkal (General Staff Reconnaissance Unit) under the command of Amiram Levin, together with Benyamin Netanyahu. After his military service he traveled to New York where he studied painting from 1972 to 1975.

In 1978, he began working with the Bineth Art Gallery in Tel Aviv, where he exhibited most of his solo exhibitions (about 15 in number). He has also had solo exhibitions at the the Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art, the Mishkan Museum of Art at Ein Harod and Ben Gurion University Gallery in Be'er Sheva. His paintings have been exhibited in group exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Israel Museum, the Haifa Museum of Art and the Jewish Museum in New York.

In 1981, he participated in the exhibition "Different Spirit", curated by Sarah Breitberg-Semel at the Tel Aviv Museum.

Kovner is married and a father of two. He has lived in Jerusalem Since 1975.

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