Oleg has been shocking, delighting and outraging Israelis for the past four years, through his daily political cartoons in The Jerusalem Post. It is not just the public he throws off balance: politicians and other celebrities Oleg lampoons have lauded him or condemned him; Oleg got Yitzhak Rabin to autograph a caricature, but made Shimon Peres so mad that he compared Oleg to the Sturmer cartoonists. Egyptian President Mubarak was so upset by Oleg that he banned The Post in his country; another time, Oleg was arrested and accused of “antisemitism” - in Israel! - for a cartoon he’d drawn. (The Israel Police later rescinded the charges.)
Oleg has been shocking, delighting and outraging Israelis for the past four years, through his daily political cartoons in The Jerusalem Post. It is not just the public he throws off balance: politicians and other celebrities Oleg lampoons have lauded him or condemned him; Oleg got Yitzhak Rabin to autograph a caricature, but made Shimon Peres so mad that he compared Oleg to the Sturmer cartoonists. Egyptian President Mubarak was so upset by Oleg that he banned The Post in his country; another time, Oleg was arrested and accused of “antisemitism” - in Israel! - for a cartoon he’d drawn. (The Israel Police later rescinded the charges.)