Early Life and Education Arie Aroch was born in 1908 in Kharkiv, which was then part of the Russian Empire and is now part of Ukraine. His birth name was Lyova Nisselvich. During his childhood, he drew frequently, making charcoal drawings by the age of six. In 1924, he made aliyah to Palestine with his parents and sister. His formal art education included studies at Bezalel between 1925 and 1926, where he studied under Shmuel Ben David, Aaron Shaul Schur, and Jacob Eisenberg. He also studied under Yitzhak Frenkel at the Histadrut art studio. In 1929–1930, he studied architecture at the Techni…