Jossef Krispel is a painter and the gead of the art department at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design In Jerusalem. He has won many awards, among them the Rappaport Award for a Young Artist (2008) and the Ministry of Culture Award for 2012. His paintings can be found in the collection of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, at the Knesset, and in private collections in Israel and abroad.