Judith Dekel owes her life to Dr. Israel Kastner, thanks to whom she arrived in Israel, as a baby, from the Bergen-Belzen concentration camp.

Wandering around the alleys of Jaffa as a child, she met the sculpture Michael Karah, whom she "adopted" as a grandfather. She spent long hours in his studio, watching him work and drawing his sculptures. Sometimes she accompanied him to the Avny Art School, where he was teaching.

Later she studied for two years at the Academy Julian in Paris.While studying Architecture at the Technion, she studied sculpture for a year with Itzhak Danziger. She later studied with Zvi Lahman at the Meirhoff Center of the Tel Aviv Museum of Arts.

 As part of her work she was sent by the Tel Aviv University archeology department to the British Museum to draw Assyrian reliefs. The drawing, 9 meters long, was published in Prof. D. Ussishkin's book "The Conquest of Lachish by Sennacherib", and was exhibited in a show at the University Gallery at the TAU, curated by Prop. M. Omer and U. Agasi.

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