Obituary

Known for his collages and an incendiary comment made at a 2015 rally, Garbuz stayed mostly out of public life for the last decade

By Jessica Steinberg

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Jessica Steinberg, The Times of Israel's culture and lifestyles editor, covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center

Prominent painter, writer, satirist and veteran left-wing activist Yair Garbuz died on Wednesday after battling cancer.

He was 80 years old.

Born in 1945 in Givatayim to parents who immigrated from Poland, Garbuz studied painting withthe prominent teacher and critic Raffi Lavie, and at the Avni Institute.

He held his first solo exhibition in 1967, already featuring what would become his trademark techniques of collage, portraits, and text.

American Pop Art paintings inspired Garbuz’s…