Pablo Picasso from the Catalan independence movement during his youth despite expressing general support and being friendly with activists within it. He did not join the armed forces for any side or country during World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II. As a Spanish citizen living in France, Picasso was under no compulsion to fight against the invading Germans in either world war. However, in 1940, he did apply for French citizenship, but it was refused on the grounds of his "extremist ideas evolving towards communism". This information was not revealed until 2003. At the start of the
Dor (political party) Dor (political party) Dor (, lit. "Generation who Built the Land", formerly known as Gil (an acronym for "Gimla'ey Yisrael LaKnesset" (Hebrew: גימלאי ישראל לכנסת), lit. "Pensioners of Israel to the Knesset") is a center political party in Israel and was part of the governing coalition in the seventeenth Knesset. In the 2009 elections, Gil did not receive sufficient votes for representation in the Knesset. In preparation for the 2013 elections, the party took on Efraim Lapid as the chairperson and revamped its image into Dor. The party has been in existence in some form since the 1990s. It ran