Kariel Gardosh

Kariel Gardos (Hebrew קריאל גרדוש, also Gardosh, uses the pseudonym: Dosh, born April 15, 1921 in Budapest as Karl Gardos, † 28 February 2000 in Tel Aviv) was a political cartoonist for the Israeli daily Maariv newspapers and Jerusalem Post. His works have been published in book form.

Life

Dosh was born as Karl Gardos ( Goldberger ) in Budapest. He survived the Holocaust and emigrated in 1948, after studying literature at the Sorbonne in Paris, to Israel, where he changed his name to Kariel. However, he could not speak Hebrew; he was his own statement after the cartoonist, as he opened it the opportunity to comment in a visual way. He began writing for underground magazines of Lehi and was hired in 1953 by the newspaper Maariv. His occasional columnist for the magazine were decidedly conservative orientation. In the years 1981-1983 Gardos served in the Israeli Embassy in London as a cultural attaché. On 28 February 2000 Dosh died aged 78 of heart failure. With his partner Tova Pardo he had two children.

Work

The drawings Gardos ' were and are extremely well known and popular in Israeli society. Gardos invented the character of Srulik, a little boy with the Kowa Tembel, the typical floppy hat the Kibbutzniks. The Srulik became the symbol of the state of Israel, " just like the Marianne, the symbol of France and the Uncle Sam of the United States ", in the words of politicians and former editor of Maariv Tommy Lapid.

Dosh had several symbolic figures in mind, such as the Lion of Judea or the old wandering Jews, he decided then but for the typical Sabra ( native-born citizens ) of the 1950s and 1960s. This is young, optimistic, kind and at the same time a little naive. He has curly hair and is wearing next to the Kova Tembel sandals and usually a pair of shorts. The shape hardly changed over the years, and the Srulik remained in their teens, even though he wore the uniform in time of Tzahal.

Of particular importance is the book Pardon, we have gained to the Gardos published together with Ephraim Kishon about the Six Day War. The fiftieth anniversary of the state and the Israeli post office in 1997/98 a number of stamps and postcards were issued with the Srulik as a motif in Israel.

The trio Lapid, Kishon and Dosh, who all worked for Maariv, was known as the "Hungarian mafia." Dosh won the Herzl Prize, the Nordau Prize, the Jabotinsky Award and the Sokolow Prize in recognition of his works. Today, a caricature Price in Israel is named after him ( Dosh price).