An interview with the painter (Hebrew - Rafi Peretz) Raphael Perez about a book an artist created about his family, the Peretz family from 6 Nissan St. Kiryat Yuval Jerusalem Question: Raphael Perez Tell me about the family artist book you created Answer: I created close to 40 artist books, notebooks, diaries, sketch books and huge books. I dedicated one of the books to my dear family, a book in which I took a childhood photograph of my family, my parents and brothers and sisters.. I pasted the photographs inside a book (the photograph is 10 percent of the total painting) and I drew with acrylic paints, markers and ink on the book and the photograph, so that the image of the photograph was an inspiration to me Build the story that includes page by page.. Question: Raphael Perez Tell me when you were born, where, and a little about your family Answer: I was born on March 4, 1965 in the Kiryat Yuval neighborhood in Jerusalem I have a twin brother named Miki Peretz and we are seven brothers and sisters, five boys and two girls Question: Raphael Perez Tell us a little about your parents Answer: My parents were new immigrants from Morocco, both immigrated young. My mother's name before the wedding was Alice - Aliza ben Yair and my father's name was Shimon Peretz, My mother was born in the Atlas Mountains and was orphaned at a young age and was later adopted by my father's family at the age of 10, so that my mother and father spent childhood and adolescence together.... They had a beautiful and happy relationship but sometimes when they argued my mother would say "even when she was a child she was like that..." This means that their acquaintance and relationship dates back to childhood.. Question: raphael perez What did your parents Shimon and Aliza Peretz work for? Answer: My father Shimon Peretz was born in 1928 - in his youth he worked in a building and then for thirty years worked as a receptionist at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem... My father's great love was actually art, he liked to draw as a hobby, write, read, solve crossword puzzles and research Regarding the issue of medicinal plants, as a breadwinner he could not fulfill his dream of becoming an artist, in order to support and feed seven children. But we are the next generation, his children are engaged in the world of creativity and education, a field in which both of my parents were engaged during their lives. My father died at the age of 69 My mother, Alice Aliza Peretz, born in 1934, worked as a kindergarten teacher's assistant, and later took care of the baby at home. She is a woman of giving wholeheartedly and caring for children and people, a warm, generous and humble woman.. and took care of us in our childhood for every emotional and physical deficiency.. My mother is right For the year 2023, the 89-year-old is partly happy and happy despite the difficulties of age.. May you have a long life.. My mother really loved gardening and nature and both of them together created a magnificent garden, my parents have a relatively large garden so they could grow many types of special and rare medicinal plants and my father even wrote a catalog (unpublished) of medicinal plants and we even had botany students come to us who were interested in the field... today they They also grow ornamental plants, and fruit trees... Question: raphael perez book about brothers and sisters Answer: My elder brother David Peretz repented in his mid-twenties.. He was a very sharp, opinionated, curious and very charismatic guy who brought many people back to repentance, and also helped people with problems through the Yeshiva and the synagogue to return to the normal path of life, he died young at the age of 56 from hepatitis C Hana Peretz: My lovely sister, converted in her early twenties with her husband, raised eight children, worked in the field of education, a kindergarten teacher, and child care. She has a very large extended family of grandchildren, great-grandchi