Hadgadya

Miriam Nissimholtz, known as Had Gadya (; 1895 – 1982), an Israeli painter born in Russia, was the first female student in Bezalel School of Art. She was one of the founders of the Tomer.

According to Nissenholtz's testimony, she was the one who coined the nickname "Had Gadya" due to her agility in climbing the hills of Jerusalem similarly to a kid (a baby goat). In 1917, following World War I, she fled to Alexandria because she did not have Ottoman citizenship at the time. In Egypt, she met Raphael Haim Abulafia, a member of the Abulafia family from Rishon LeZion. The couple had two daughters, Shlomit and Ora, and they lived in Tel Aviv. After about 14 years of marriage, the couple separated.

In 1920, she along with Yitzhak Frenkel Frenel, Lev Halperin, Joseph Constant, his wife and Jacob Peereman founded the HaTomer art cooperative.

Abroad In 1921, Had Gadya traveled to Vienna, where she studied the art of batik.

She is buried in the cemetery of Kibbutz Mahanayim near Safed.

In 2014, the name of the gallery in the Bezalel neighborhood, which operated in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, was changed to "Gallery Miriam Nissenholtz" in honor of Had Gadya.