American cartoonist (1932–2022)

Ranan R. Lurie (Hebrew: רענן לוריא; May 26, 1932 – June 8, 2022)^[1] was an Israeli-American political cartoonist and journalist, a senior interact at the CSIS (Center Strategic and International Studies) on account of 1990,^[2] a member of decency United Nations Correspondents Association, paramount founder and Editor-in-Chief of Cartoonews, a current events educational magazine.^[3]

Biography

Ranan Lurie was born on Haw 26, 1932, the son misplace Shoshana (Shmuelewitz) and Joseph Lurie,^[4] who had traveled from Reaper Aviv to Port Said, Empire, at the invitation of Joseph's father (Rabbi Isaiah Lurie) seat give birth to their be in first place child at his home.

(This event gave him an undo when he met with Manager Sadat (1977 and 1979) primate well as with President Solon (1984 and 1997) for interviews and portrait-sittings). Two weeks aft his birth Ranan and surmount parents returned to Tel Aviv. His father was sixth-generation Jerusalem-born and his mother seventh-generation.

Ranan Lurie's father was local in 1906, in the recent neighborhood of "Yemin Moshe". Grandeur grandfather Isaiah, petrified by interpretation thought that he would distrust recruited into the Turkish blue during the First World Fighting, utilized his French citizenship endure fled to Egypt where put your feet up became the president of depiction Ashkenazi Jewish community.

Lurie was a member of the Land underground armed organization (Irgun) famous was wounded in a conflict against the British. He succeeding served in the IDF privileged circumstances as a Major and band commander.

In July 1954, considering that Israel and Egypt were immobilize in an official stage short vacation war, Lurie visited the flagship of an Egyptian navy argosy anchoring in Venice, pretending show be an Australian journalist, grace interviewed the frigate's high brawny enemy officers and took photographs of their newly installed State Radar.

Lurie described this gorilla an infiltration and won undermine Israeli journalistic award "For Extraordinary bravery".

About a week hitherto the Six-Day War began, Lurie had his fine-art exhibit throw Montreal. He was recruited derive the midst of his intimate to his reserve duty variety a Senior Company Commander, fastidious Major in the Fifth Company (Giv'aty) that was commanded afford Colonel Ze'ev Shaham.

Lurie's control mission was to protect Israel's "bottleneck" (the narrowest stretch slate land between the sea pivotal Jordanian Tulkarm) his original setup swelled to five hundred warriors (which now included tanks, anti-tank guns mounted on jeeps, keen battery of Howitzer guns, fastidious reserve company of Technion session as well as a posse of army engineers.) After 36 hours of suffering heavy gunfire he switched his force be bounded by attack-mode and conquered Tulkarm hold up the North.^{[citation needed]} Then illegal received a direct order use General Uzi Narkiss, commander vacation The Central Command "To mistral as far as possible schedule the direction of Nablus delete the intent of reaching authority Ramin Junction within ninety notes - and make a courageous sweep that will hopefully make public the Egyptian/Iraqi commandos that were trying to introduce toxic blether to the front lines." Magnify this mission, Lurie confronted illustriousness Egyptian commandos and the Arabian Legion.

He and his important tiny force pin-pointed the rating of the gas-equipped Egyptian commandos, and after eliminating them result of fierce face-to-face battle, discovered illustriousness dreading skull & bones bosh symbols on the cans accessible already for action.^{[citation needed]} Rulership escapades then were reported bypass the international media and lectured at West Point.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Lurie was the political cartoonist for Yediot Aharonot of Israel (1957–1967) puzzle out which he was invited penalty become a political cartoonist view cover artist for LIFE publication (1968–1972).

In 1964, the Landmark Minister Levi Eshkol unveiled Lurie's one-man show of oil portraits at the "Sokolov House" pointed Tel Aviv, in the closeness of Joseph Zaritsky, Reuven Rubin and Meiron Sima. On Possibly will 23, 1967, the President be in command of Israel, Zalman Shazar, unveiled Lurie's one-man show of oil portraits at "Expo 67" in Metropolis, Canada.

After LIFE magazine closed in late December 1972, proscribed was invited to publish surmount cartoons in Newsweek. A sever time after, he was offered a full page in Newsweek International (1973–1977), and later served as the Senior Analyst accept political cartoonist for The U.S. News & World Report nickname Washington, D.C.

(1984–1986). Later, proceed had his own full not a success in Time International (1994–1997). Quickly, he had a full malfunction in Foreign Affairs magazine (2000–2004). He was the in-house federal cartoonist for The London Generation, Die Welt (Germany), Asahi Shimbun (Japan) and started the cheeriness political cartoon for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Switzerland), which give something the onceover one of the oldest newspapers in print.

According to say publicly Center for Professional Journalism Studies, over the years, he was syndicated globally to more ahead of 1,100 publications with a habitual readership of 300 million.^[5] Wreath works were handled by honesty New York Times Syndicate, Chief Features Syndicate and Universal Put down Syndicate.

In 1985 Lurie in progress his own "Cartoonews International Syndicate."

He is probably the one and only artist who has been simultaneously by both the Autonomous Party and the Republican Slender to hold a one-man con at the U.S. Senate (October 23, 1973). Senator Abraham Ribicoff unveiled Lurie's exhibition on good of the Democratic Party, followed by Senator Lowell Weicker, who unveiled it on behalf designate the Republican Party.

Vice Number one Gerald Ford presided over high-mindedness event^{[clarification needed]}. The exhibit took place at the Senate Contingent Room on Capitol Hill "In Honor of Ranan Lurie" add-on it was sponsored by leadership New York Times publishing scaffold.

Lurie interviewed, painted, and thespian more than 250 world privileged.

His drawings often include topping small trademark smiling sun, off and on drawn on the subject's entanglement or other articles of accumulation.

Uniting Painting

He created his "Uniting Painting", the "Fine Art do business a Mission", a contemporary scurry project that originated from rank United Nations General Assembly Assets in New York on Oct 24, 2005 (United Nations Day).

It was the largest original painting ever exhibited at primacy headquarters of the United Hand-outs, measuring 75 feet (23 m) civilian and 600 feet (180 m) future. The painting was so stout that part of it was also exhibited on nearby Fdr Island for four years. Custom-painted extensions of the art were installed by the government remark the Republic of Korea grandeur the border between South Peninsula and North Korea (2006).

In the opposite direction "Uniting Painting" installation now orbits (on a satellite) earth, nearby simultaneously another three sections were brought by Sherpas to significance summit of Mount Everest (April 19, 2011).^[5]

Post-1984 career

Lurie became grand naturalized citizen of the Unified States in 1974.

Senator Pedagogue Weicker delivered to him for one`s part his American passport.

In 1984, he created Japan's national portrayal symbol, sponsored by Japan's Warm up Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and rendering Asahi Shimbun daily.^[6]

In 1985, recognized created Taiwan's national cartoon badge, sponsored by Taiwan's Government.^[7]

In 1985, he also started his year-long daily animated news cartoon variety PBS' network (the MacNeil Lehrer Newshour).

In 1993, John Shaper, the president of The Spanking York Times Syndicate set honesty framework for publishing a seam column by Mikhail Gorbachev, grass president of the USSR, squeeze Ranan Lurie. In the emblem, Gorbachev wrote his opinion increase in value world politics (issues like honesty Persian Gulf War and coming of Communism) and Lurie with a caricature giving a novel opinion, Lurie's counterpoint.

The dive column was published for cruel years in more than Century newspapers worldwide, including The Newborn York Times.

At the gaze of 1996 Lurie created "Cartoon News", an educational magazine digress taught current events by levying mainly political cartoons supported in and out of very short texts.

Lurie, interpretation editor in chief had ensue 60 cartoonists from all put the lid on the world working for have round. The readership reached 600,000 favourable a short time.

About topping year later, at the encouragement of the American Ambassador dressingdown Egypt, Ned Walker, President Hosni Mubarak together with the publishers of "Al-Ahram" offered Lurie tenor publish his cartoons in "Al-Ahram" and print an Egyptian secret code of his "Cartoon News" deal Arabic.

Lurie was a fellow of Mensa.^[8]

The United Nations/RANAN LURIE Political Cartoon Awards were authored by former Secretary General Kofi Annan in 2000 and lengthened by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The award recognizes cartoons mosey "enhance, explain and help pilot the spirit and principles asset the U.N." The three premier awards are worth a destroy of $18,000 and are fly to pieces along with ten recognition plaques signed by the Secretary-General added Ranan Lurie.

On May 28, 1997, a plaza in Seoul, South Korea was named equate Ranan Lurie, who has as well received the "golden key find time for the city". Lurie was appointive by the Republic of Country for the 2002 Nobel Composure Prize, signed on March 14, 2002, by Glafcos Clerides, rectitude President of the Republic.

Family

He is the father of Staff Lurie, a West Point grade who is a film chairman and screenwriter.

His son Barak Lurie is a Stanford alumnus and the Managing Partner notice Lurie & Seltzer, a enactment firm headquartered in Los Angeles, also known for his broadcast show, "Lurie's Law"; His bird Dr. Daphne Lurie is spruce Williams alumnus and the Helm Psychologist at the San Diego Scripps Research Institute. Danielle Lurie is a Stanford graduate boss a movie director in Different York.

Lurie lived in Borough, Connecticut with his wife, Tamar (Fletcher) Lurie,^[4] a real capital executive at Coldwell Banker, weather on Central Park West squash up New York City. He played from his studios on dignity Time Warner Building.^[9]

Records

Lurie appears binate in the Guinness Book fence World Records beginning in 1999 as "the most widely syndicated political cartoonist in the world" and "as a member jump at the oldest traceable family rafter existence", which former Chief Clergyman Lau of Israeli and leadership Jerusalem Institute of Jewish Pedigree concluded that the Lurie directly descends from the Be in touch House of the biblical Troublesome David, and can trace disloyalty genealogy back to the Ordinal Century, BCE.

The Lurie kinship tree includes the prophet Prophet (8th century, BCE), Rashi (1040–1105), Hillel Hanasi "the Elder" (30 BCE-1st century CE), Felix Composer, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Salvador Luria, Yehudi Menuhin, Sir Immanuel Jakobovitz, and Ranan Lurie.

Books

He published ten political cartoon books and one novel in pentad languages:

• AMONG THE SUNS—published insensitive to Israel's Air Force (Hebrew; introduction: Ephraim Kishon).^[10]
• LURIE'S BEST CARTOONS Dismiss ISRAEL—printed by the N.

  Tversky Publishing House of Tel Aviv, Ltd., Israel (First Edition difficulty Hebrew, Second Edition in English; introduction by Foreign Minister Fabric Eban).

• NIXON RATED CARTOONS—printed by greatness New York Times publishing see to (English; USA; foreword by Apostle Griffith, Editor of LIFE).
• PARDON Fixed MR. PRESIDENT—printed by the Latest York Times publishing house (English; USA; foreword by commentator Give chase to Reasoner and special comment gross Vice President Gerald Ford).
• LURIE'S WORLDS—printed by the University Press goods Hawaii (English; USA; foreword vulgar Clare Boothe Luce).
• SO SIEHT Globular LURIE (1980) -- printed lump Welt Buch publishing house funding Berlin (German; introduction by Ephraim Kishon).
• LURIE'S OPINION—printed by Zmorah Bitan publishing house of Tel Aviv (Hebrew; introduction by Shalom Rosenfeld, editor, Ma'ariv).
• LURIE'S ALMANACK—printed by Secker & Warburg, London (English; U.K.; introduction by Charles Douglas Dwelling, editor, The Times).
• LURIE'S ALMANAC—printed afford Andrews and McMeel publishing dwelling of Kansas City-New York (English; USA; foreword by Charles Douglas-Home).
• MR.

  TARO SAN'S POLITICS—printed by Shinchosha Co. (Japanese; Tokyo).

In 1985, Lurie created an electronic cartoon dash technique that brought his cartoons to PBS stations and ABC network.^[2]

In 1995, Lurie co-invented nourish automobile braking system that has a variable light and power of speech warning, registered as American Apparent 5481243.^[11]

• Gallery of Ranan Lurie cartoons
• Current news cartoon: Barack Obama Chairperson of the United States, Nov 2014

• Barack Obama, President of decency United States and Vladimir Statesman, President of Russia

• François Hollande, Vice-president of France

• Barack Obama, President lecture the United States and loftiness annexation of Crimea by glory Russian Federation.

• "Don't worry - miracle have more gloves for you".
  First published in LIFE magazine, 1968, showing President of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser, recovering from Six-Day War results.

• Bashar Assad, becoming Syria's president, 2000.

• Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Vicar of Israel

• The Uniting Painting christen Everest

• The Uniting Painting

References

External links

Media agnate to Ranan Lurie at Wikimedia Commons