The Portrait of the Late Colonel Ilan Ramon – the Columbia Tragedy

The Famous Israeli Painter Artist Michael Khundiashvili,had dedicated his new painting “The Columbia Tragedy”

to The Columbia Tragedy.

The crash of the shuttle “Columbia” on 01.02.2003 and the death of the Israel’s first astronaut Colonel Ilan Ramon with the shuttle staff, was a shock for the whole world and for the painter Michael Khundiashvili as well. At his new painting which he had dedicated to this tragedy, he commemorated the late Ilan Ramon on the background of the whole galaxy.

The painter had used the falling stars to symbolize the death of the stuff on the shuttle, the candle that signifies the memory and the scroll of the Torah coming out from the Earth rushing to the sky symbolizing the Ten Commandments which is the basic of the existence of the world, and always guides us, lighting up our way.

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