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Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935) was the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of the British Mandatory Palestine, the founder of Yeshiva Mercaz HaRav Kook (The Central Universal Yeshiva), Jewish thinker, Halakhist, Kabbalist and a renowned Torah scholar.<br/><br/>

Rabbi Kook is known in Hebrew as 'HaRav Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook', 'or simply as 'HaRav'. He was one of the most celebrated and influential rabbis of the 20th century.
Jazeps Grosvalds (Latvian: Jāzeps Grosvalds) (April 24, 1891 – February 1, 1920) was a Latvian painter from Riga. He is now regarded as one of Latvia's finest painters and has several works on display in the Latvian National Museum of Art. His style is a combination of European Modernism and Abstract with a distinctly Latvian influence. 

A student of Simon Hollósy's school in Munich, Grosvalds went to Paris in 1910 where he studied at several private academies until 1914. In addition to this, he immersed himself in the flourishing art scene of the time, studying both modern art (Cézanne, Degas, Renoir) as well as the old masters.