Paul Kor (Kornowski, , August 1, 1926 – May 24, 2001) was an Israeli painter, graphic designer, children's author and illustrator who won many prizes in Israel and worldwide. Biography Paul Kornowski was born in Paris, to a non-observant Jewish family who had emigrated from Poland. His father, Yitzhak, a tailor by trade, was murdered in the Holocaust in Auschwitz (7 July 1942), and the young Paul was smuggled to Geneva, Switzerland, together with his brother Henri (1929 -1980), where he lived as a refugee in a Jewish orphanage (OSE) until the end of the war. During that time he studied art and graphics at the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva, and subsequently at the École Nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. At the beginning of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war he immigrated to Israel and joined the IDF as a volunteer in MAHAL (Foreign Volunteers). After his marriage to Pnina Tovbin, whom he met while in the IDF, he remained in Israel. Paul Kor retained his family name Kornowski but used Kor to sign his works. In 2001, Kor died of lung cancer, at the age of 75. He was buried in the Kiryat Sha'ul Cemetery in Tel Aviv. He is survived by his wife Pnina and his two sons. His granddaughter is Israeli actress Lihi Kornowski. In June 2008, a street was named after him in Tel Aviv, the city in which he worked and created for most of his life. Art career Kor was awarded first prize - the "Golden Siren" sculpture - for his poster for the promotion of tourism at the Fourth International Tourism Posters Competition in 1966, in Milan, Italy. In addition to his constant activity as an artist in Israel and the world, Kor worked for many years in illustration and graphic design. He designed some of the banknotes and stamps of the State of Israel, and also designed and produced booklets and posters in Israel and in France. In 1968, his illustrated text-less book Tête-à-Queue was awarded the "Beautiful Book" prize in France, and was also exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. At the beginning of the 1970s, Kor painted and designed the last series of the Israeli pound banknotes, which was the basis for the first series of Israeli shekel banknotes. The notes he designed depict portraits of Henrietta Szold (IL5), Montefiore (IL10), Chaim Weizmann (IL50) and Herzl (IL100).