5 December 1904 – 18 January 1995, was an Israeli photographer and painter. Born as Moses Vorobeichic in Lebedewo (now Belarus), he studied painting in Vilnius before moving to the Bauhaus in Dessau in 1927, where he encountered photography alongside artists such as Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. He later continued his studies in Paris at a photography and film school, where he began developing his photographic practice.

His early work focused on experimental photomontage and documentary projects. In 1929 he photographed Jewish life in Vilnius, presenting the work at the Zionist Congress in Zurich and publishing it in 1931 as a photobook. In the same year, he published Paris, a book of avant-garde photomontages that became a significant work within modern photography. Further projects, such as Ci-contre, explored similar experimental approaches, though some remained unpublished for decades.

In 1934 he emigrated to Palestine, where he initially continued working as a photographer on documentary and commercial assignments. Later, he increasingly turned toward religious painting. He was among the founders of the artists’ colony in Safed, where he lived and worked under the name Moshe Raviv until his death.

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Biography text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), German edition. Retrieved March 29, 2026.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moï_Ver