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worked there for what he remembers as "nine Denis has two sons, one daughter, seven
wonderful years”. He augmented his low grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren,
salary by illustrating for children's books and all living in Israel. He keeps busy with his art,
magazines and founding a young children's now chiefly drawing. His cartoons, like the
magazine, Etzba'oni. ones gracing this very article, have been
taking our ESRA Magazine to new levels of
excellence for many years. Ad mea v'esrim,
Denis, and keep on drawing!

Following the death of Mr. Lion, Denis then
went into advertising, working as a partner in
an advertising agency for a while, before
forming a partnership, Shifrin and Naaman.
The agency soon became involved with
advertising for companies in Israel's
burgeoning new hi-tech sector and others.
They prospered until the war year, 1967
when, Denis says, "everybody stopped
advertising".
When his two sons had grown, Denis opened
a new agency with his sons. Both had studied
in the USA. His daughter found her place in
education. The agency prospered, but when
his wife had a stroke in 1985, Denis retired to
care for Gussie full-time. "She had helped me
all my life with whatever I was doing, so I
decided it was my turn. I told the kids, “It's
all yours now. I'm now devoting all my time
to your mother”. Denis did, and Gussie lived
another 30 years until 2015.

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