Eli Ilan

{{Short description|Israeli sculptor}}

{{unreferenced|date=September 2011}}

{{Infobox artist

| name = Eli Ilan

| native_name = אלי אילן

| birth_date = 1928

| birth_place = Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1982|1|1|1928|1|1}}

| death_place = Caesarea, Israel

| nationality = Israeli

| known_for = Sculpture

| education = {{flatlist|

• University of British Columbia
• Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Ontario College of Art & Design

}}

| notable_works = Dolmenic Arch I (1981), Tel Aviv University

}}

Eli Ilan ({{langx|he|אלי אילן}}; 1928 – 1982) was an Israeli sculptor.

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Ilan was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He enrolled in a premedical curriculum at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and emigrated to Israel in 1948. He then studied pre-historic archaeology and physical anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1956, he returned to Canada to study sculpture at the Ontario College of Art & Design. He lived in Kibbutz Sasa from 1959 to 1963. He died in 1982 in Caesarea, Israel.