Complex sentence: Mordechai Avniel (1900--1989), variant name Mordecai Avniel, was an Israeli painter and sculptor, born in 1900 in Minsk, present-day Belarus.
Split into simpler sentences: Mordechai Avniel (1900--1989), variant name Mordecai Avniel, was an Israeli painter and sculptor. Avniel was born in 1900 in Minsk, present-day Belarus.