Arieh El-Hanani, born Sapozhnikov[1][2][3] (1898–1985), was an Israel Prize winner in the field of architecture for his "contribution to shaping Israeli culture".

[1] El-Hanani participated in the anthropological Jewish expedition under the leadership of S. Ansky into the Pale of Settlement, which exerted a substantial influence on Russian-Jewish avant-garde art.

[5][6] Also for the Fair he created an 8-meter high sculpture in the style of Russian Constructivism, known as "The Hebrew Laborer",[7] erected in 1934 and restored in 1989 when the original material, iron, was replaced by concrete and steel.

[9][10][5] He designed the municipal auditorium in Kfar Saba, the Gan Ha'ir Tower of Tel Aviv, and several buildings of the Weizmann Institute of Science, of which the Wix Library (1957) constitutes one of the works he's best known for.

[15] The Russian avant-garde style can be easily recognised in his work for the Hebrew-language monthly youth magazine "Moledeth" ("Homeland") published in the 1920s in Erez Israel.