Yitzhak Yamin

Yitzhak Yamin (Hebrew: יצחק ימין; born 1938 – 21 March 2020)[1][2] was an Iraqi-born Israeli painter and sculptor.

In 1951, he immigrated to Israel and lived with his parents and eleven brothers and sisters in a ma'abara transit camp near Jerusalem.

Beside being a painter Yamin also practices in plastic art, creating sculptures made of bronze, wood, marble, iron and stone.

Yamin painted portraits of many well-known figures such as Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, prime minister Menachem Begin, and Egyptian president Anwar Al Sadat.

At the beginning of the nineties, he was invited to design a memorandum room for the veterans of the patrol unit “Sayeret Haruv” in the Jordan Valley.