Departures of note

Born in Hamadan, Iran in 1937, Moshe Saeedi immigrated to Israel alone at age 13 in 1950. He initially settled at Kibbutz Na'an before moving to Kibbutz Kfar Menachem, where he found his social and artistic community and lived for the rest of his life.

Saeedi pursued formal art education at the Avni Institute, the Teachers' College for Painting in Tel Aviv, and in London. Beginning in the 1960s, he specialized in artistic ceramics, particularly the integration of ceramics with architecture. This became his primary field of activity throughout his career.

Over many decades of work, Saeedi created numerous pieces including ceramic art walls in public buildings, kibbutzim, cultural centers, educational institutions, synagogues, and urban spaces. He collaborated with artists including Shraga Weil, Shmuel Katz, and Moshe Castel. Among his notable works were War and Peace (1969), a large ceramic wall at the Kibbutz Movement headquarters in Tel Aviv, and the Kaddish and Prayer monument in Ashdod (2000), made of brass and marble plates, dedicated to the city's fallen soldiers.