'First Monumental Zionist Work of Art' Uncovered in Jerusalem

HAARETZ 
ByNir Hasson

ISRAEL---The giant mural painted by artist Yaakov Stark covers the walls of the Ades Synagogue completed exactly 100 years ago. The restoration work started last week as part of a program to preserve national heritage sites. Stark, who immigrated to the land of Israel from Galicia in Eastern Europe in 1906, was a member of the small group of artists who gathered around Boris Schatz, founder of the Bezalel School in the institution's early days. In the painting, one verse from the Hebrew bible (Isaiah 56:7) runs the entire circumference of the synagogue: "I will bring them to My sacred house ... for My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples." [link]