A Life Shaped by the Kibbutz and the Field Uri Lifschitz arrived in the world at Kibbutz Givat HaShlosha in 1936. His early years were rooted in the soil of Mandatory Palestine, a life that later included service as a paratrooper in Unit 101 under Ariel Sharon. He saw the realities of the 1956 Sinai War firsthand, an experience that lived alongside his growing interest in the visual arts. By the 1950s, he had begun to pick up a brush,…