Before leaving his job at Israel’s tourism ministry, Elisha Ben-Yitzhak was a well-known realist painter. Then he moved to Milwaukee to start Heavenly International Tours, and his craft fell idle. His foreign accent can make things tricky here, he says. “Otherwise, I love my life here.” His business primarily arranges trips for Christian groups  (including, once, Reggie White) to the Middle East and elsewhere. Last December, Ben-Yitzhak suddenly started painting again, and in an unexpected cubist style. “It exploded, it came out,” he says.

Written by Matthew Hrodey
Source: Milwaukee Magazine