Jacob Elbaz

He moved to Jerusalem to be a freelance photojournalist, taking photographs of celebrities such as Marc Chagall, Teddy Kolek, Moshe Dayan, and Golda Meir.

His pictures of poor Moroccan Jews in Haifa gained exposure for their living conditions and plans were made to improve the housing situation.

Elbaz has taken photographs of the terrorist attack of the bus on the children of Avivim, the Yom Kippur War, negotiations of the cease-fire with the Egyptians at Km 101, the Litani Operation, the Jewish/Arab tension and the friction between the Hasidic and African American communities in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Elbaz won first prize in a photography competition with the subject "Israel" in the Jewish Chronicle with a photograph called "Torah and Peace".

In his galleries Elbaz has sold the works of Fernando Botero, Yaacov Agam, Michael Eisemann, and the original silk screens of Andy Warhol's "10 Jewish Geniuses".