Eliyahu Koren

For six months, Korngold worked for one of the few graphic designers in Palestine at the time, Rudi Deutsch (Dayan), in Tel Aviv. Next he prepared illustrations for various books and exhibitions. From 1936 to 1957, Korngold headed the graphics department of Keren Kayemet, the Jewish National Fund, where he was responsible for graphics, publications, stamps, and the organization's Golden Book. During that time, he also designed the present seal of the city of Jerusalem.

In the early 1940s, Judah Magnes, first president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1935–1948), asked Koren if he could develop a new font for a planned edition of the Hebrew Bible, while the Italian–Jewish rabbi and biblical scholar Umberto Cassuto was busy determining the best text version for this new edition. Eventually, both Magnes and Cassuto died, and the Hebrew University printing press ultimately reprinted a 19th-century edition with corrections. Koren, however, continued the project independently. In his small Jerusalem-based publishing house, Koren Publishers Jerusalem, he developed a

Hebrew font based on medieval Sephardic letter forms, which he had specifically modernized.