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Pinchas Cohen Gan

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli painter and mixed-media artist who was born in meknes”. Today it says “moroccan-israeli painter and mixed-media artist”.
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Pinchas Cohen Gan ( ) (born November 3, 1942) is an Israeli painter and mixed-media artist .1 He was awarded the Sandberg Prize (1979), the Culture and Sport Ministry's prize for his life's work (2005), and the Israel Prize in Art (2008).

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Then

israeli painter and mixed-media artist who was born in meknes

Now

moroccan-israeli painter and mixed-media artist

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