Israeli sculpture designates sculpture produced in the Land of Israel from 1906, the year the "Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts" (today called the Bezalel
National Museum of Modern Art in Paris. The Open Museum of Tefen and the Lavon SculptureGarden (Galilee, Israel) permanently exhibit about ten of his works;
at Lincoln Center, New York; Socrates Sculpture Park, Astoria, Queens, New York; Tefen Museum SculptureGarden, Israel; Tel Aviv Museum, Israel; Tel Hai
held at the TefenSculptureGarden. In 1981 Shemi was awarded the Sandberg Prize from the Israel Museum. In 1986, the Israel Prize for sculpture, together