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About Mordechai Omer
- Mordechai Omer (Hebrew: ????? ?????; April 1941 - 10 June 2011) was an Israeli art historian and museum administrator who served as Director of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.Born in Haifa, he was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (BA Art History, 1961), Columbia University under Meyer Schapiro (MA Art History, 1968) and the University of East Anglia (PhD, 1976) where his doctoral dissertation was on the biblical subjects of J M W Turner supervised by John Gage.Omer lived in the United States from 1967–72, studying and working at the Museum of Modern Art New York.
- He lived in Hampstead, London 1972 - 75 whilst completing his doctorate.
- He served as Director of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art from 1995 until his death in 2011 and was instrumental in the commissioning of the Herta and Paul Amir Building.
- Omer was also professor of Art History at the University of Tel Aviv. Omer died after a short illness and was buried in Jerusalem.
- Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai was among those who delivered eulogies
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