1950-1966 |
Lives and attends schools in Kiryat Motzkin, near Haifa |
1966-1969 |
Studies at the Bezalel Academy of Arts, on a scholarship from the America-Israel Foundation |
1970 |
Bust of David Ben-Gurion, on display at Ben-Gurion International Airport, commissioned by the Jewish Agency for Israel |
1971 |
Group exhibition at the Artists' House, Jerusalem
Member of the Israeli group that participates in the Monaco Biennale for Young Artists and wins first prize |
1972-1977 |
(1972-1974)
Noah's Ark, The Flute Player, and Hallelujah, stone monuments commissioned by the Jerusalem Municipality
(1973-1975)
Teaches sculpture and drawing in the Department of Art, Haifa University
(1976)
Receives the Jerusalem Prize for Sculpture
(1975-1977)
The Gate of the Faith, made from Jerusalem limestone, four meters tall and weighing 27 tons, depicting the biblical past of the people of Israel; the monument rests on a hill in the center of Old Jaffa and is the biggest stone monument in Israel |
1978 |
Bust of Yitzhak Rabin, then prime minister of Israel, commissioned by his wife, Leah |
1981-1982 |
Wall relief, 8.5 meters tall and seven meters wide, in the lobby of the Sonesta Hotel, Taba |
1985 |
Wins international competition sponsored by the Schachter Institute of the United States for a sculpture for the Schachter Institute in Jerusalem; the subject matter of the two-meter-tall work, made of Jerusalem limestone, is the Twelve Tribes of Israel |
1987 |
One-man show, of fourteen sculptures, at the Weintraub Gallery, in New York City |
1988 |
Wins international competition sponsored by the Jewish Community Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; his winning sculpture, The Menorah, made of bronze, 1.5 meters tall, 2.5 meters wide, and weighing one ton, sits in front of the JCC, in the center of the city |
1991 |
Memorial for the Ethiopian Jews who perished on their way to Israel, commissioned by the Jewish National Fund; the monument, composed of five high-relief stone panels, each one square meter in size, sits near Ramat Rachel, in Jerusalem |
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One-man show at the AHAVA Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida |
1992 |
Stone relief, three meters tall and four meters wide, in the lobby of the Lev Yerushalayim Hotel, Jerusalem |
1993 |
Exhibition of sixteen bronze sculptures, Klutznick Museum, Washington, D.C.
Stone relief, two meters tall and four meters wide, in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel, Taba |
1994 |
Edition of the bronze sculpture The Peace Dove, commissioned by the Prime Minister’s Office and given by Prime Minister Rabin to state leaders who supported the peace process, among them kings Hussein, Hassan, and Juan Carlos, and President Clinton |
1995 |
Three monumental sculptures, made of Carera marble and commissioned by Guardian Industries Corporation, for the company’s headquarters, in Detroit, Michigan |
1996 |
Wins competition for sculpture commemorating the liberation of Eilat; the 1.5 ton, eight-meter tall work is the largest bronze sculpture in Israel
They Changed their Swords to Plowshares, a twenty-five-meter-high sculpture of Carera marble, commissioned by the Soda Club, Jerusalem, for display in the company’s courtyard |
1997 |
Three monumental sculptures, commissioned by David Hermelin, United States ambassador to Norway, for the garden of his home, in Detroit, Michigan
The Family, 2.2 meters tall and weighing six tons, displayed at the Peabody Place Project, Memphis, Tennessee, and A Wound Element, 1.5 meters tall and weighing three tons, displayed in the headquarters of Belz Enterprises, of Memphis, which commissioned the two works
Three bronze sculptures in a group exhibition of Israeli artists at the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the State of Israel |
1998 |
The Spirit, made in Carera of Carera marble, 2.2 meters tall and weighing three tons, commissioned by Belz Enterprises, displayed in the front courtyard of the Peabody Hotel, Memphis |
1999 |
Participates in the “Forme del Bianco” group exhibition in Carera, sponsored by Banco d’Italia; the one-square-meter work was carved in Belgian black marble
Bust of King Hussein, commissioned for display, along with a portrait of Yitzhak Rabin, in the “Room of Peace,” in the gardens of Beit Gavriel, Tiberias
One-man exhibition of fourteen monumental stone sculptures, in the piazza of Carera, in celebration of the millennium |
2001 |
One-man exhibition of marble sculptures in the patio at the entrance to the Sherover Theater, in Jerusalem |
2002-2005 |
Series of twenty-four reliefs on biblical stories, commissioned by Belz Enterprises |
2005 |
Bust of Eli Cohen, Israeli master-spy in Syria, who was caught and hanged, commissioned by the Prime Minister’s Office |
Sculptures by Daniel Kafri on permanent display for public viewing
- Hilton Hotel, Taba (stone-relief in the lobby)
- Eilat, Liberation of Eilat
- Old Jaffa, The Gate of the Faith
- Near Ramat Rachel, Jerusalem, “Memorial to Ethiopians who Died on Way to Israel”
- Hadassah Hospital, Mount Scopus
- Bar-Ilan University
- Sheba Hospital
- Soroka Hospital
- Pardes-Hana
- Herzliya
- Hotel Lev Yerushalayim
- Davidson Institute of Science Education, Weizmann Institute
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