Google decided to mark the 95th anniversary of the birth of Yoram Gross, the director and producer who was born in Poland and immigrated to Israel in 1950.
The Doodle Dedicated to Yoram Gross, Photo: Screenshot
He is considered one of the pioneers of animation in Israel and passed away on September 21, 2015. He first worked as a news photographer for the Carmel Diaries, served as a photographer in the IDF filming unit and set up a production company with his wife. "(A Jewish wedding with Moshe Edri's foil dolls)," We will never fade "(with wax candles) and" Scales ", when he performed the music for the films himself with a harmonica.
The best-known film he created at the time was "A Song Without Words," which he sent to the Brussels Experimental Film Festival in 1958 and won third place.
Over the years, he has produced 16 full-length animated films and comedy animated series, and every year, as part of "Asif" at the Animix Festival, his family awards the Gross Award for Excellence in Animation to an Israeli animator.