CartoonistKariel Gardos

A political cartoonist in the daily newspaper Maariv, Gardos, known to generations of Israelis as “Dosh”, drew the reactions of “Srulik”, a little boy wearing a floppy hat who has become the symbol of Israel, “just as Marianne is the symbol of France or Uncle Sam is the symbol of the United States,” says Yosef Lapid, a former editor at Maariv. Gardos died February 28 in Tel Aviv from a heart attack at age 78.