Bezalel (Lilic) Shatz, the son of Boris Shatz who founded the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem, studied art in Paris after high-school. It was "Constructionist Art" and color that attracted him. When he returned to Jerusalem in the early fifties with his painter wife Louise, his work had been shown in New York's Museum of Modern Art, and in California. He and Louise moved into two small rooms with a large roof balcony in the Baka Quarter of Jerusalem. The above photograph is of the painting that Lilic made on one wall of the room that became a kitchen. As today, it could be seen from the enclosed balcony room by lifting the shutter in the stone wall.

When Jean Kadmon took over the apartment, it was impossible to live in it without bcoming a painter. Lilic encouraged and taught her. After he died, Louise approved of Jean's repairs to the wall whose cassein watercolor paint had become worn. A later repair by Ronnie Kosloff as well as Jean Kadmon, used acrylics that had not been available in Lilic's day.