
Gilad Kavalerchik
Local Testimony 2015
Gallery
2015
Photo of the Year | News | Daily Life | Portraits | Culture and Art | Nature and Environment | Sport
Zachi Becker - Deputy Director General of Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
Deganit Berest - Artist and Teacher
Ashraf Fawakhry - Artist, Communication and Media Professional
Yon Feder - Chief Editor, Yedioth Internet
Vardi Kahana - Photographer and Curator of Local Testimony 2014 and 2015
Micha Kirshner - Artist and Teacher
Avi Koren - Film Photographer and Teacher
Dafna Shalom - Photographer
Moran Shoub - Photographer, Curator, and Member of the Local Testimony Editorial Board
Photo of the year
AFP
Menahem Kahana
Palestinian women dismayed at the sight of the house of the Dawabsheh family.
Duma village, south of Nablus
3 August 2015
News
1st prize
Single
News
Emil Salman
Haaretz
Police holding down Yishai Schlissel, a few seconds after he stabbed and severely injured seven participants of the Gay Pride Parade. The stab wounds caused the death of Shira Banki, a 16 years old high-school student. Schlissel committed the stabbing a month after his release from a ten year prison sentence for a similar offence: attempt of murder of three participants of the Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem in 2005.
1st prize
Series
News
Activestills
Oren Ziv
On July 31, Molotov cocktails were thrown into the bedroom of Dawabsheh family, setting the house with its residents in it on fire. Baby, Ali Saad, was burnt to death and his parents, Saad and Reham, died from their injuries after several days of struggling for their lives. Four years old Muhammad suffered burns all over his body. The writings sprayed outside their house and other findings on the ground pointed towards the involvement of extreme right wing activists. The deadly arson was part of a string of Jewish terrorist acts, in which churches and mosques were set on fire. The severe terrorist attack led to disturbances in the territories, worldwide condemnation, and international protests. A few right-wing extremists were placed in administrative detention; however, up to writing these very words, no one has been brought to trial on suspicion of involvement in this act.
2nd prize
Series
News
Freelance
Dan Haimovich
Youths from the Ethiopian community protesting against racism, discrimination, and police brutality.
The protesters demonstrated in front of the government offices next to Azrieli Towers, blockaded Ayalon Highway, and marched through the streets up to Rabin Square. The gathering in the square was turbulent and the police used horses, water hoses, and flash grenades to disperse it.
Single
News
AP
Ariel Schalit
An arson terrorist attack on the Church of the Multiplication, one of the sacred Christian sites within the areas of the state of Israel. Serious damage was caused to the structure, and the hallway was destroyed and blackened. Graffiti was sprayed on the wall citing “falls idols will be smashed” - a quotation from the Aleinu Leshabe’ach (We must praise the lord) prayer, which relates to the abolition of idol worship. The suspects, two right-wing, Jewish extremist, were apprehended and brought into custody.
Daily Life
Potrtaits
Culture and Art
1st prize
Series
Urbanism and culture
EPA
Abir Sultan
In an attempt to make reality more beautiful, Elyasaf Miara paints on shelters in the Gaza Envelope settlements. His technique and the subject of his paintings help him integrate the ugly concrete bodies into the local scenery, and thereby exude a certain sense of tranquility.
2nd prize
Series
Urbanism and culture
APF
Menahem Kahana
Around 70 thousand Bedouins live without infrastructure, water, and electricity in villages, which are not recognized by the state of Israel. Some work in Jewish settlements in farming and construction, while others grow sheep and goats. During the last several years, the modern lifestyle has led many families to move to permanent settlements. Nonetheless, tens of thousands of Bedouins prefer to continue and live on their lands, and preserve their traditional way of life in the open spaces of the Negev, at the cost of a constant confrontation with the state authorities.
Nature and Environment
1st prize
Series
Nature and environment
EPA
Abir Sultan
The Dead Sea is dying. Today, the typical shape of the Dead Sea and the famous peninsula may only be found in old maps and memories. Human hands have caused water levels to drop 40 meters during the last five decades. The level continues to drop a meter a year. All that is now left is the northern basin - a long and narrow strip growing smaller and smaller.
2nd prize
Series
Nature and environment
Freelance
Moshe Prager
The black-winged kite (Elanus caeruleus) is a small diurnal bird of prey, which has been nesting in Israel in the last several years. The black-winged kite hunts voles and mice, and is used as a biological pesticide to help the farmers protect their crops.
3rd prize
Series
Nature and environment
Alex Levac
Haaretz
Contrary to the conventional image of agriculture in the Arabah as a success story, the reality on the ground is strikingly different. Failed government policy and competition over export are only two of the factors which have deteriorated agriculture throughout Israel, including in the Arabah: “I have been living in Moshav Tzofar for the last six months, and the sight of hundreds of acres of abandoned greenhouses shocked me to the core. I tried to convey this sad story in my photographs”.
Series
Nature and environment
Uriel Sinai
The New York Times
With its part-Mediterranean, part-desert climate, Israel has been suffering for decades from a chronic
shortages of water and an over-exploitation of its natural water resources. A major national effort to desalinate Mediterranean seawater and to recycle wastewater has provided the country with enough water, even during severe droughts.
Series
Nature and environment
Freelance
Doron Nissim
On the night of December 3rd 2014, during works to transfer the Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline, the pipe was
breached. Five million liters of crude oil leaked and quickly spread over the unique one-thousand acres nature reserve – home to the largest population of docras gazelles in the world. The contamination caused immediate damage to hundreds of animals, mainly reptiles and insects. In the long run, the damage is expected to spread to the larger animals and plantation.






























































