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An IDF soldier turns to art Israeli security expert Marc Provisor finds peace through painting tially studied marketing, but changed his major to art after attending an oil painting class Marc Provisor, the director at the School of Visual Arts in of security projects for the Manhattan. “I totally fell in love with it, Hewlett-based One Israel Fund and a former soldier in the and decided to drop all of my Israel Defense Forces, has been business courses and started interpreting his war experienc- studying painting,” he said. “I es on canvas, using watercolor just got into the art, and I was in New York, and and oil. would submit Provisor, 62, who things for shows, now lives in Israel, and eventually it started painting as took off.” a way to decomAfter the war in press when he was a Iraq began in 2002, 20-year-old IDF solProvisor left New dier fighting in the Yo rk a n d m ove d L e b a n o n Wa r i n back to Israel. 1983. “I had a couple of “When I came art shows going on, back after a particuMARC PRoVISoR but I simply picked larly messy ambush up and just went that we were in Leb- Israeli artist b a c k h o m e, ” h e anon, a friend of mine had given me a set of recounted. “Also in the hopes I watercolors and watercolor would be able to continue to paper,” Provisor recalled. “I paint and be with art, but Israel was sitting in my apartment is not New York.” He painted less and less after that night, and just started painting the incident. It calmed he was appointed head of security in Shiloh, just north of me down a lot.” From then until the follow- Jerusalem, near the West Bank. “I took the job because the ing year, Provisor painted each day after returning from com- mayor of Shiloh told me I could bat. After his stint with the IDF, paint at night all the time, and he came to the United States to offered me a studio for free,” he continue his schooling. He iniContinued on page 13
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Big Blue spirit on parade Hewlett High School’s Big Blue Marching Band started off the annual Homecoming Parade last Saturday. It began at the Woodmere Education Center, made its way along Broadway and ended at Hewlett High School before kickoff. At right, the varsity cheerleaders. Story, more photos, Page 10.
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