Miriam Nissimholtz, known as Had Gadya (1895 – 1982), an Israeli painter born in Russia, was the first female student in Bezalel School of Art.

[2] Nissenholtz was born in Russia and grew up in the village of Kodma near Odessa, to a Zionist pharmacist family.

[1][3] According to Nissenholtz's testimony, she was the one who coined the nickname "Had Gadya" due to her agility in climbing the hills of Jerusalem similarly to a kid (a baby goat).

[1][4] In 1920, she along with Yitzhak Frenkel Frenel, Lev Halperin, Joseph Constant, his wife and Jacob Peereman founded the HaTomer art cooperative.

As German Nazi forces advanced towards Egypt during World War II, she fled to New York.