Cartoon

Exhibition of ultra-Orthodox military draft cartoons vandalized ahead of Animix Festival

A young man wearing a kippah confronted organizers and Tel Aviv Cinematheque CEO Tomer Cohen. They said he tore down and damaged parts of the exhibition before attempting to flee.

Cartoon showing Moses saying, "Don't they teach  this commandment at yeshivas?" and holding a tablet that says, "Thou shalt not vandalize cartoons," created in response to the incident.
CARTOON ANIMALS by lifetime achievement award winner Dovi Keich.

Tel Aviv's Animix festival combines political satire, cartoons with tributes, memorials, lectures

THE CHIZBATRON, (1948) by Arieh Navon

Ink and irony: A closer look at the cartoonist who chronicled Israel’s formative years

A detail from Arthur Szyk's “They Too Have a Right to Live,”  which first appeared in the May 12, 1943 issue of The New York Times and was presumably sponsored by the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, an organization founded by Zionist activist Peter Bergson in 1943.

This Jewish artist fought Nazis with a paintbrush, when art like his still mattered 


Miri's Mess

From the sketchbook

German daily drops cartoonist after 'antisemitic' Netanyahu drawing

Holding a rocket with the Star of David on it in one hand and a microphone in the other, Netanyahu is shown in the cartoon saying: "Next year in Jerusalem."

Cartoon shows Netanyahu celebrating the Eurovision song stage in Netta Barzilai's attire while holding a missile with has a Star of David imposed on it

From the sketchbook

Illustration by Avi Katz

Creator of 'antisemitic' frog cartoon files copyright infringement lawsuit

The frog, created in 2005, has become synonymous with the alt-right movement.

Pepe the Frog cartoon

From the sketchbook

Illustration by Avi Katz

Exhibition mocking Iranian human rights abuses to kick off in Brussels

The exhibition was created as a forceful response to the controversial International Holocaust Cartoon Competition which takes place annually in Iran.

A cartoon from the upcoming Israeli Cartoon Project exhibition in Brussels, mocking Iran's human rights record

Still running after all these years

'We now have a community in Israel, and it seems we aren’t too bad at this cartoon caricature creation business.'

Nissim Hizkiyahu

Suicide-bomber Deri cartoon detonates row

The cartoon’s title “Work Accident,” a phrase used when Hamas and other terrorist operatives accidentally blow themselves up while constructing a bomb.

Aryeh Deri

From the sketchbook

From the Sketchbook

‘Dry Bones’ cartoonist’s new book looks back at early Israel

A collection of classic cartoons by Yaakov Kirschen is a nostalgic gaze at days gone by, when times were simpler, if no less absurd

Since 1973, cartoonist Yaakov ‘Dry Bones’ Kirschen has been commenting on the absurdities of life in Israel