Doron Langberg
Doron Langberg
Doron Langberg
Doron Langberg
Doron Langberg
Doron Langberg
Doron Langberg
Doron Langberg
Doron Langberg
Doron Langberg
Doron Langberg
Doron Langberg
An increasingly prominent voice among a new generation of figurative painters, Doron Langberg has gained a reputation for works that hinge on a sense of intimacy.
An increasingly prominent voice among a new generation of figurative painters, Doron Langberg has gained a reputation for works that, luminous in colour and often large in scale, hinge on a sense of intimacy. Depicting himself, his family, friends, and lovers, Langberg’s paintings celebrate the physicality of touch – in subject matter and process – a closeness that engages with new dialogues around queer sensuality and sexuality. Speaking about his work the artist says, ‘Queerness for me is not just a sexual experience, but a way of being in the world which affects every aspect of my life. Using intense colours and different paint textures and marks to create these everyday scenes, I want to connect with a viewer by speaking to our most basic commonalities – our bodies, our relationships, our interiority – rather than the social categories that may separate us. In creating this connection, I want to make queer pleasure, friendship and intimacy feel expansive and generative, embodying the full range of human experiences.’
Often orchestrating multiple figures, as well as details of textiles, clothing and interior patterns, the artist works initially directly from life, making small-scale works that generate ideas about mood and colour palette in addition to likeness – or, more importantly, as Langberg puts it, the sense of a ‘living person’. From these improvisational sessions he builds compositions in which figures often appear to move in or out of focus, emerging from or receding into their surroundings. This dynamic interplay between people and the places they inhabit, in which areas might appear boldly declarative or remain consciously indeterminate, leaving areas of abstraction, gaps, questions – or breathing spaces – lends the work its distinctive psychological register. The dissolving of boundaries, meanwhile, speaks of inner and outer worlds, not only those occupied by the subject of each painting but by the artist and viewer as well. As complex as they are seductive, Langberg’s paintings invite an encounter between subject and viewer. A slow unfolding of colour, form and materiality creates, in the words of the artist, ‘a different relationship between the viewer and the figure, perhaps a more empathic relationship.’
About the artist
Born in 1985 in Yokneam Moshava, Israel, Doron Langberg currently lives and works in New York City. He received his MFA from Yale University School of Art, holds a BFA from the University of Pennsylvania, a Certificate from PAFA, and attended the Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk. Langberg has attended the EFA Studio Program, Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, Yaddo artist residency, and the Queer Art Mentorship Program. He is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters John Koch award for painting, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, and the Yale Schoelkopf Travel Prize.
Work by the artist is currently on view as part of the collection display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA, and the National Portrait Gallery, London, UK.
The artist’s first solo institutional exhibition in Europe, Doron Langberg: Part of Your World, was on view at Kunsthal Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in 2024. Previously, an exhibition featuring new and recent works by the artist was on view at Rubell Museum Miami (2022–2023). In 2022, Langberg’s works were on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston as part of the major group exhibition A Place for Me: Figurative Painting Now; at The Frick Collection, New York, as part of Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters; and at ICA Miami in Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami’s Collection the first major exhibition to showcase the permanent collection.
Earlier exhibitions include Friends and Lovers a group show on view at FLAG Art Foundation in New York, (2023–2024); Beautiful, Vivid, Self-contained, Hill Art Foundation, New York, USA (2023); Any distance between us, RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island (2021–2022); Breakfast Under the Tree, a group exhibition curated by Russell Tovey, at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, Kent (2021); Intimacy: New Queer Art from Berlin and Beyond at the Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany (2021) and Doron Langberg: Give Me Love, the artist’s first solo exhibition, at Victoria Miro, London, UK (2021). His work has also been shown at institutional venues including the LSU Museum, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Leslie-Lohman Museum and The PAFA Museum.
Langberg’s work is in collections including Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA; Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, USA; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA; Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston and Miami, USA; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCO), Genève, Switzerland; National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA; Rennie Museum, Vancouver, Canada; RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, USA; Rubell Museum, Miami, USA.
Langberg’s first solo exhibition at Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, was held in 2019.
Survey: Selected Works
In Focus – Doron Langberg: Night
'I really wanted to turn my gaze towards these... really special, impactful moments that happen on the dance floor, in the club, with other people, in spaces that as a queer person we create for ourselves to be with each other.' Join the artist as he discusses his exhibition of new paintings, held at Victoria Miro, London, 26 January–28 March 2024.
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Feature Posted February 28 2024
The New York Times writes about the rise of the floral motif in contemporary painting, featuring Doron Langberg
’…in the past few years the Western art world has seen a re-emergence of natural imagery and a preference for the pastoral from painters best known for paintings of friends, spouses, loved ones and neighbors…’ – Amanda Fortini ponders the rise of floral motifs in contemporary painting and asks if flowers ’are in fact slyly radical’. Amanda Fortini, The New York Times -
Interview Posted February 23 2024
Doron Langberg features in the latest episode of Talk Art
In this new episode, Russell Tovey and Robert Diament meet Doron Langberg at his exhibition in the gallery in London to discuss his work. Talk Art -
Review Posted February 14 2024
Doron Langberg: Night is reviewed by Elephant
‘Here are queer subjectivities unleashed, in space and time, but also queerly and brilliantly traversing both, consciously and deliberately stretching out across the canvases and walls in epic fields of galactic and near utopic colours…’ – Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, Elephant -
Interview Posted February 7 2024
Doron Langberg talks to The Guardian
The artist speaks with Tim Jonze about his exhibition of new paintings at the gallery in London. The Guardian -
Gallery Exhibition 3 February - 30 March 2024
Doron Langberg: Flowers
The works on view in Venice were painted en plein air at different times of the year. Langberg paints these fleeting moments spontaneously in one session, alighting on patches of ground and recording them in bursts of activity Victoria Miro Venice -
Exhibition Posted February 1 2024
Doron Langberg: Part of Your World at Kunsthal Rotterdam
The artist's first solo institutional exhibition in Europe (1 Feb–26 May 2024) brings together sixteen new and recent paintings – from intimate portraits to monumental sweeping landscapes – which encompass universal subjects of love, desire and place. Kunsthal Rotterdam -
Gallery Exhibition 26 January - 28 March 2024
Doron Langberg: Night
Featuring large-scale tableaux of nightclubs and beach scenes, Night is a hymn to nocturnal worlds both interior and exterior, and the spaces of ambiguity, opportunity and liberation – physical and psychological – that open up after dark. Please be advised that the exhibition contains artworks that are sexually explicit. Victoria Miro Gallery I -
Publication Posted October 23 2023
New publication Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters now available
Featuring work by Doron Langberg and published by the Frick Collection, Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters is inspired by the installation series of the same name, held in 2021–22 at Frick Madison. Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters -
Exhibition Posted October 6 2023
Works by María Berrío, Doron Langberg and Alice Neel feature in Friends & Lovers at The FLAG Art Foundation
This expansive group exhibition (6 October 2023–20 January 2024) centers on relationships between artists and their subjects and explores the infinite ways, both past and present, we are influenced by our inner circles. The FLAG Art Foundation, New York -
Art fair Posted February 10 2023
Frieze Los Angeles: Doron Langberg
A solo presentation (Booth B8, 16–19 February 2023) of new paintings by Doron Langberg. A new text on the artist by Evan Moffitt accompanies the presentation. Santa Monica Airport, Los Angeles -
Exhibition Posted November 28 2022
Doron Langberg at Rubell Museum Miami
An exhibition (28 November 2022–12 November 2023) featuring new and recent works by the artist. Representing a new generation of figurative painters, Langberg creates luminous, vibrant, and often large-scale works that hinge on a sense of intimacy. Rubell Museum Miami -
News story Posted April 11 2022
Doron Langberg collaborates with Artspace to create a benefit print in support of Visual AIDS
A new series of 30 hand-painted unique editions, titled Oren and Bennet, 2022. Proceeds from the sale of this series will be donated to support Visual AIDS, a New York-based nonprofit that utilises art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy. -
Exhibition Posted March 29 2022
Doron Langberg features in A Place for Me: Figurative Painting Now at ICA Boston
The exhibition (31 March–5 September 2022) celebrates a new generation of artists at the vanguard of contemporary painting. ICA Boston -
Gallery Exhibition 12 February - 27 March 2022
Unmasked
An exhibition in Venice of works by Milton Avery, Jules de Balincourt, Hernan Bas, María Berrío, Chantal Joffe, Doron Langberg, Alice Neel and Celia Paul. Victoria Miro Venice -
Interview Posted October 29 2021
Doron Langberg speaks with The Art Newspaper
Doron Langberg is interviewed by Ben Luke for The Art Newspaper on the occasion of his first solo exhibition at Victoria Miro, London. Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper -
Exhibition Posted September 30 2021
On view at Frick Madison Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters, featuring Doron Langberg
On view from 30 September 2021 until January 2022, Living Histories presents paintings created in response to specific works, with particular emphasis on issues of gender and queer identity typically excluded from narratives of early modern European art. Frick Madison -
News story Posted September 14 2021
Doron Langberg is interviewed by Studio International
Joe Lloyd from Studio International interviews Doron Langberg on the occasion of the artist's first solo exhibition at Victoria Miro. Joe Lloyd, Studio International -
News story Posted September 10 2021
The Art Newspaper podcast with Doron Langberg
Doron Langberg features in the latest episode of The Week in Art podcast by The Art Newspaper. The Art Newspaper -
Gallery Exhibition 3 September - 6 November 2021
Doron Langberg: Give Me Love
For his first exhibition with the gallery, Langberg will show near-abstract large-scale depictions that give material form to moments of desire, alongside paintings which are drawn from a group of works made while visiting his home in Yokneam, Israel, after many months of being away. Victoria Miro Gallery I -
Exhibition Posted July 13 2021
Any distance between us, featuring Doron Langberg, at RISD Museum
The exhibition (17 July 2021–13 March 2022) explores the power and significance of intimate relationships in works of contemporary art, particularly those made by artists identified as Queer and of colour. RISD Museum, Providence, RI, USA -
News story Posted July 1 2021
Announcing our autumn programme
We are delighted to announce the autumn programme across our spaces in London and Venice – including the gallery’s first solo exhibitions by Paula Rego, Doron Langberg and Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, and exhibitions of new work by Sarah Sze and Inka Essenhigh. -
News story Posted May 20 2021
Doron Langberg creates a new work in aid of the Middle East Children’s Alliance
Doron Langberg has created this new work on paper in aid of the Middle East Children's Alliance, a nonprofit working to protect the rights and improve the lives of children and refugees in Palestine, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon through medical aid, food, empowerment, and education. -
News Posted April 12 2021
Doron Langberg and Salman Toor talk about their friendship in T Magazine’s 2021 Culture issue
A celebration of friendship in all its many forms, T Magazine's 2021 Culture issue honours the relationships that helped us through the past year. Toor and Langberg discuss their friendship, each other's work, and their shared passion for Dutch masters and contemporary queer portraiture. Coco Romack, T Magazine -
News story Posted February 24 2021
Doron Langberg is interviewed by Metal Magazine
'I see my work as an aspirational space where queer experiences can embody more than just what they depict.' Rebecca Martin, Metal Magazine -
News story Posted February 2 2021
Doron Langberg and Flora Yukhnovich are featured in Elephant’s Ones to Watch: The Definitive Art Stars of 2021
The two artists are featured in Elephant's selection of artists on the rise this year. Elephant -
Channel September 23 2020
Doron Langberg in the studio
An increasingly prominent voice among a new generation of figurative painters, Doron Langberg has gained a reputation for works that, luminous in colour and often large in scale, hinge on a sense of intimacy. Depicting himself, his family, friends and lovers, Langberg’s paintings celebrate the physicality of touch – in subject matter and process – a closeness that engages with new dialogues around queer sensuality and sexuality. -
News story Posted September 17 2020
Announcing representation of Doron Langberg
Victoria Miro is delighted to announce the representation of Doron Langberg. Works by the New York-based painter will feature in a solo presentation by the gallery as part of Art Basel’s online viewing room OVR:2020, which takes place 23–26 September 2020. The artist’s first exhibition with the gallery will be held in 2021. -
Exhibition Posted June 29 2020
Doron Langberg participates in Art on the Grid
Work by Doron Langberg installed across New York City as part of Art on the Grid. NYC, New York -
News story Posted April 7 2020
Doron Langberg speaks with Talk Art
Doron Langberg appears on Talk Art with Russell Tovey and Robert Diament. -
News story Posted December 9 2019
Jewish Currents on Doron Langberg and the New Queer Intimism
Tyler Malone on Doron Langberg for Jewish Currents Fall 2019 issue. Tyler Malone, Jewish Currents -
News story Posted August 17 2019
Doron Langberg is interviewed by Hyperallergic
'There is an emotional narrative to the way that the paintings are touched,'– Doron Langberg is interview by Hyperallergic. Jennifer Samet, Hyperallergic
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Feature Posted February 28 2024
The New York Times writes about the rise of the floral motif in contemporary painting, featuring Doron Langberg
’…in the past few years the Western art world has seen a re-emergence of natural imagery and a preference for the pastoral from painters best known for paintings of friends, spouses, loved ones and neighbors…’ – Amanda Fortini ponders the rise of floral motifs in contemporary painting and asks if flowers ’are in fact slyly radical’. Amanda Fortini, The New York Times -
Interview Posted February 23 2024
Doron Langberg features in the latest episode of Talk Art
In this new episode, Russell Tovey and Robert Diament meet Doron Langberg at his exhibition in the gallery in London to discuss his work. Talk Art -
Review Posted February 14 2024
Doron Langberg: Night is reviewed by Elephant
‘Here are queer subjectivities unleashed, in space and time, but also queerly and brilliantly traversing both, consciously and deliberately stretching out across the canvases and walls in epic fields of galactic and near utopic colours…’ – Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, Elephant -
Interview Posted February 7 2024
Doron Langberg talks to The Guardian
The artist speaks with Tim Jonze about his exhibition of new paintings at the gallery in London. The Guardian -
Gallery Exhibition 3 February - 30 March 2024
Doron Langberg: Flowers
The works on view in Venice were painted en plein air at different times of the year. Langberg paints these fleeting moments spontaneously in one session, alighting on patches of ground and recording them in bursts of activity Victoria Miro Venice -
Exhibition Posted February 1 2024
Doron Langberg: Part of Your World at Kunsthal Rotterdam
The artist's first solo institutional exhibition in Europe (1 Feb–26 May 2024) brings together sixteen new and recent paintings – from intimate portraits to monumental sweeping landscapes – which encompass universal subjects of love, desire and place. Kunsthal Rotterdam -
Gallery Exhibition 26 January - 28 March 2024
Doron Langberg: Night
Featuring large-scale tableaux of nightclubs and beach scenes, Night is a hymn to nocturnal worlds both interior and exterior, and the spaces of ambiguity, opportunity and liberation – physical and psychological – that open up after dark. Please be advised that the exhibition contains artworks that are sexually explicit. Victoria Miro Gallery I -
Publication Posted October 23 2023
New publication Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters now available
Featuring work by Doron Langberg and published by the Frick Collection, Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters is inspired by the installation series of the same name, held in 2021–22 at Frick Madison. Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters -
Exhibition Posted October 6 2023
Works by María Berrío, Doron Langberg and Alice Neel feature in Friends & Lovers at The FLAG Art Foundation
This expansive group exhibition (6 October 2023–20 January 2024) centers on relationships between artists and their subjects and explores the infinite ways, both past and present, we are influenced by our inner circles. The FLAG Art Foundation, New York -
Art fair Posted February 10 2023
Frieze Los Angeles: Doron Langberg
A solo presentation (Booth B8, 16–19 February 2023) of new paintings by Doron Langberg. A new text on the artist by Evan Moffitt accompanies the presentation. Santa Monica Airport, Los Angeles -
Exhibition Posted November 28 2022
Doron Langberg at Rubell Museum Miami
An exhibition (28 November 2022–12 November 2023) featuring new and recent works by the artist. Representing a new generation of figurative painters, Langberg creates luminous, vibrant, and often large-scale works that hinge on a sense of intimacy. Rubell Museum Miami -
News story Posted April 11 2022
Doron Langberg collaborates with Artspace to create a benefit print in support of Visual AIDS
A new series of 30 hand-painted unique editions, titled Oren and Bennet, 2022. Proceeds from the sale of this series will be donated to support Visual AIDS, a New York-based nonprofit that utilises art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy. -
Exhibition Posted March 29 2022
Doron Langberg features in A Place for Me: Figurative Painting Now at ICA Boston
The exhibition (31 March–5 September 2022) celebrates a new generation of artists at the vanguard of contemporary painting. ICA Boston -
Gallery Exhibition 12 February - 27 March 2022
Unmasked
An exhibition in Venice of works by Milton Avery, Jules de Balincourt, Hernan Bas, María Berrío, Chantal Joffe, Doron Langberg, Alice Neel and Celia Paul. Victoria Miro Venice -
Interview Posted October 29 2021
Doron Langberg speaks with The Art Newspaper
Doron Langberg is interviewed by Ben Luke for The Art Newspaper on the occasion of his first solo exhibition at Victoria Miro, London. Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper -
Exhibition Posted September 30 2021
On view at Frick Madison Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters, featuring Doron Langberg
On view from 30 September 2021 until January 2022, Living Histories presents paintings created in response to specific works, with particular emphasis on issues of gender and queer identity typically excluded from narratives of early modern European art. Frick Madison -
News story Posted September 14 2021
Doron Langberg is interviewed by Studio International
Joe Lloyd from Studio International interviews Doron Langberg on the occasion of the artist's first solo exhibition at Victoria Miro. Joe Lloyd, Studio International -
News story Posted September 10 2021
The Art Newspaper podcast with Doron Langberg
Doron Langberg features in the latest episode of The Week in Art podcast by The Art Newspaper. The Art Newspaper -
Gallery Exhibition 3 September - 6 November 2021
Doron Langberg: Give Me Love
For his first exhibition with the gallery, Langberg will show near-abstract large-scale depictions that give material form to moments of desire, alongside paintings which are drawn from a group of works made while visiting his home in Yokneam, Israel, after many months of being away. Victoria Miro Gallery I -
Exhibition Posted July 13 2021
Any distance between us, featuring Doron Langberg, at RISD Museum
The exhibition (17 July 2021–13 March 2022) explores the power and significance of intimate relationships in works of contemporary art, particularly those made by artists identified as Queer and of colour. RISD Museum, Providence, RI, USA -
News story Posted July 1 2021
Announcing our autumn programme
We are delighted to announce the autumn programme across our spaces in London and Venice – including the gallery’s first solo exhibitions by Paula Rego, Doron Langberg and Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, and exhibitions of new work by Sarah Sze and Inka Essenhigh. -
News story Posted May 20 2021
Doron Langberg creates a new work in aid of the Middle East Children’s Alliance
Doron Langberg has created this new work on paper in aid of the Middle East Children's Alliance, a nonprofit working to protect the rights and improve the lives of children and refugees in Palestine, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon through medical aid, food, empowerment, and education. -
News Posted April 12 2021
Doron Langberg and Salman Toor talk about their friendship in T Magazine’s 2021 Culture issue
A celebration of friendship in all its many forms, T Magazine's 2021 Culture issue honours the relationships that helped us through the past year. Toor and Langberg discuss their friendship, each other's work, and their shared passion for Dutch masters and contemporary queer portraiture. Coco Romack, T Magazine -
News story Posted February 24 2021
Doron Langberg is interviewed by Metal Magazine
'I see my work as an aspirational space where queer experiences can embody more than just what they depict.' Rebecca Martin, Metal Magazine -
News story Posted February 2 2021
Doron Langberg and Flora Yukhnovich are featured in Elephant’s Ones to Watch: The Definitive Art Stars of 2021
The two artists are featured in Elephant's selection of artists on the rise this year. Elephant -
Channel September 23 2020
Doron Langberg in the studio
An increasingly prominent voice among a new generation of figurative painters, Doron Langberg has gained a reputation for works that, luminous in colour and often large in scale, hinge on a sense of intimacy. Depicting himself, his family, friends and lovers, Langberg’s paintings celebrate the physicality of touch – in subject matter and process – a closeness that engages with new dialogues around queer sensuality and sexuality. -
News story Posted September 17 2020
Announcing representation of Doron Langberg
Victoria Miro is delighted to announce the representation of Doron Langberg. Works by the New York-based painter will feature in a solo presentation by the gallery as part of Art Basel’s online viewing room OVR:2020, which takes place 23–26 September 2020. The artist’s first exhibition with the gallery will be held in 2021. -
Exhibition Posted June 29 2020
Doron Langberg participates in Art on the Grid
Work by Doron Langberg installed across New York City as part of Art on the Grid. NYC, New York -
News story Posted April 7 2020
Doron Langberg speaks with Talk Art
Doron Langberg appears on Talk Art with Russell Tovey and Robert Diament. -
News story Posted December 9 2019
Jewish Currents on Doron Langberg and the New Queer Intimism
Tyler Malone on Doron Langberg for Jewish Currents Fall 2019 issue. Tyler Malone, Jewish Currents -
News story Posted August 17 2019
Doron Langberg is interviewed by Hyperallergic
'There is an emotional narrative to the way that the paintings are touched,'– Doron Langberg is interview by Hyperallergic. Jennifer Samet, Hyperallergic
Previous exhibitions at Victoria Miro
Doron Langberg: Flowers
The works on view in Venice were painted en plein air at different times of the year. Langberg paints these fleeting moments spontaneously in one session, alighting on patches of ground and recording them in bursts of activityDoron Langberg: Flowers
The works on view in Venice were painted en plein air at different times of the year. Langberg paints these fleeting moments spontaneously in one session, alighting on patches of ground and recording them in bursts of activityDoron Langberg: Night
Featuring large-scale tableaux of nightclubs and beach scenes, Night is a hymn to nocturnal worlds both interior and exterior, and the spaces of ambiguity, opportunity and liberation – physical and psychological – that open up after dark. Please be advised that the exhibition contains artworks that are sexually explicit.Doron Langberg: Night
Featuring large-scale tableaux of nightclubs and beach scenes, Night is a hymn to nocturnal worlds both interior and exterior, and the spaces of ambiguity, opportunity and liberation – physical and psychological – that open up after dark. Please be advised that the exhibition contains artworks that are sexually explicit.Unmasked
An exhibition in Venice of works by Milton Avery, Jules de Balincourt, Hernan Bas, María Berrío, Chantal Joffe, Doron Langberg, Alice Neel and Celia Paul.
Unmasked
An exhibition in Venice of works by Milton Avery, Jules de Balincourt, Hernan Bas, María Berrío, Chantal Joffe, Doron Langberg, Alice Neel and Celia Paul.
Doron Langberg: Give Me Love
For his first exhibition with the gallery, Langberg will show near-abstract large-scale depictions that give material form to moments of desire, alongside paintings which are drawn from a group of works made while visiting his home in Yokneam, Israel, after many months of being away.
Doron Langberg: Give Me Love
For his first exhibition with the gallery, Langberg will show near-abstract large-scale depictions that give material form to moments of desire, alongside paintings which are drawn from a group of works made while visiting his home in Yokneam, Israel, after many months of being away.