Noa Eshkol

[6] She was born on 28 February 1924 in Deganya Bet[7] to Jewish immigrants from Russian Empire[8] Rivka Maharshek and Levi Eshkol, who later became the 3rd Prime Minister of Israel,[9] her parents divorced soon after her birth, and she moved with her mother to Tel Aviv.

[10] Noa attended the School for Workers' Children in Tel Aviv with classmates such as Yaakov Rechter and Haim Ben Dor.

[6] After returning to Israel towards the end of the 1948 Palestine War, Eshkol began teaching dance at the Kibbutzim College and the Cameri Theater's drama studio in Tel Aviv.

[10] In 1953, she performed a 50-minute piece at an event commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, at an open amphitheater near the Ghetto Fighters' House, Eshkol's piece, performed by her Movement Quartet and dozens of high school students, featured minimalist symbolic choreography accompanied by original music composed by Herbert Brün.

[20] Outside of the studio, Eshkol was interested in literature and studied geometric structures, numerical series, and the connection between form and system.

[21] Her works were influenced by cultural and scientific advances of the time, such as the invention of computers, electronic music, and robotics, as well as the focus on NASA.

[1] The carpets featured abstract and still-life compositions, such as The House of Bernarda Alba (Virgin) (1978), which included a square of green fabric surrounded by light-colored arrangements.