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Leon Bronstein was born in Moldavia whence he moved to the land of Israel. An engineer and watchmaker by training, he found himself unable to find work in either of those vocations. But he could work with tools and he had molded clay and worked with wood as a child. As chance would have it, in 1979 he found a beautifully grained piece of olive wood that inspired him to fashion a small figurine at a wood shop in the Old City of Caesarea. This statue that was so well received by the shopkeeper that Bronstein’s turned his creative attention to sculpture.