Dov Gottesman

Dov Gottesman (1929 - 22 February 2011) was an Israeli art collector, and president of the Israel Museum from 2001 until his death in 2011.

Dov Gottesman was born in 1929, although this has also been incorrectly reported as 1917.

In 1996, Gottesman became chairman of the Israel Museum, and in 2001, succeeded Teddy Kollek as president.

Gottesman lived between New York, London, Geneva and Tel Aviv.

He was married to Rachel, and they had three sons, Assaf, Noam and Yoav. He died on 22 February 2011, at his home in New York, aged 82.