Hemed Yisrael Dror (b. 1975, Israel) Lives and works in Netanya. Acquired his training in painting during three years of study with the artist Maya Cohen Levy. His painting centers on male figures, most of them he meets by chance, asks their permission to photograph them, and then paints them from the photographs.
Recipient of The Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative Realist Art 2020 which included a solo exhibition at Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2021.