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"To the question of national identity, I tend to be of the opinion that the healthi- est art is the kind that grows on some fixed soil;' said Jed Perl, the art critic for the New Republic. Still, it is worth noting that in recent years, the New York art scene has become even more enticing for Israelis. The Israel Artists Fund for Visual Arts at Columbia, created in 2003, awards two scholarships to its master's program each year. Rivka Saker, the head of the Sotheby's Israel department, created Artis in 2004 to promote young Israeli artists in New York throughout the year. It maybe a telling sign that the American-Israeli Cultural Foundation now gives half the overseas scholarships it awards as a grant and the other half as a loan. The loan component is forgiven if the artist returns to Israel. And Bezalel, responding to the depar- tures of some of its young artists to graduate programs abroad, created its own graduate program in 2001. 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