stops creating traditional painting and made objects and installations mostly from found materials. In 1970 he married Neta Dominiz, they kept living in Messilot, and have their first son Yaal in 1972. In 1972 his first one-person exhibition took place at Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem, in this show Tevet exhibited few sculptural objects made from plywood, paper, masking tapes etc (pic.) and some of his Works on Glass from the same year. The American Artist Robert Rauschenberg saw Works on Glass while visiting Sara Gilat’s home and got very excited, he purchased five pieces from this series, he then asked to meet Tevet and later sent him a small grant and invited him to come to NYC and meet/work there, Tevet, having no money, arrived in NY only few years later in 1979-1980. After Yom Kippur War in 1973 the young family moved from the Kibbutz to Petah Tikva, a city near Tel Aviv, where they lived for few years. In 1975 Tevet had his first show in Europe at the prestigious Galerie Schmella, in Dusseldorf and by 1976 had his first museum solo show at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (curated by Yona Fischer). In 1979 he moved, with his family to New York, with the support of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation AICF. On the same year he has his second solo show in New York at the Bertha Urdang Gallery. There he exhibited: Installation for Two Rooms, a work that drew a lot of attention. In 1980, while still in New York, Nahum Tevet was invited to teach at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, where he quickly became an influential figure as Professor for the Sculpture at the Art Department. By the summer 2000 Tevet was asked to become head of the Advance studies program and was leading the opening of the Bezalel Branch of Salame Street in Tel Aviv. The program shortly became the first recognized MFA program in Israel. Tevet was its director 2001-2010 during this time the program quickly gained local importance and international respectful status and success. Nahum Tevet thought at Bezalel Academy during 1980 -2013. During the ’80 Tevet produced two series of group of works: Narcissus Series (1980-84) and Painting lesson series (1983-1990), these formalized Tevet’s thoughts and ideas setting the foundation for the works he will make in the coming decades. 1990s the Tel Aviv Museum produced an