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Photography: Kobi Wolf

Local Testimony 2018

Gallery

2018

  • Uri Gershuni, photographer, artist and lecturer
    Gilad Tocatly, director and producer
    Mark Yashaev, photographer, artist and lecturer
    Ilan Itzhayek, editor-in-chief, Xnet website, Yedioth Ahronoth
    Yaakov Israel, photographer, artist and lecturer
    Vardi Kahana, photographer, curator and member of the Local Testimony editorial board
    Rina Castelnuovo, photojournalist and director
    Guy Raz, photographer, photography curator of MUSA - Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
    Ami Steinitz, Local Testimony curator 2007, 2008, 2018


Photo of the year

Olivier Fitoussi

Haaretz

MK Oren Hazan of the Likud takes a selfie with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and coalition members after a nightly vote on the nation-state law, after it passed in the Knesset. Also in the photo: MKs Avi Dichter, Nurit Koren, Yaron Mazuz, Ayoob Kara, Miki Zohar and Anat Barko.

Israeli Knesset, Jerusalem

July 18, 2018

News

A Palestinian youth during a conflict with IDF soldiers in the West Bank, in the second week of demonstrations following US President Donald Trump's announcement regarding the move of the US Embassy to Jerusalem

1st prize

Single

News

DPA

איליה יפימוביץ

A Palestinian youth during a conflict with IDF soldiers in the West Bank, in the second week of demonstrations following US President Donald Trump's announcement regarding the move of the US Embassy to Jerusalem

Soldiers enveloped in smoke caused by a fire that broke out after an incendiary kite was launched from Gaza.

2nd prize

Single

News

Getty Images

Lior Mizrahi

Soldiers enveloped in smoke caused by a fire that broke out after an incendiary kite was launched from Gaza.

A demonstrator from the Druze community during the Druze demonstration at Rabin Square, protesting against the Nation-State Law.

3rd prize

Single

News

Contact Press Images

Kobi Wolf

A demonstrator from the Druze community during the Druze demonstration at Rabin Square, protesting against the Nation-State Law.

Incendiary kites, fires, smoke and rockets in Otef Aza (Gaza Envelope).

1st prize

Series

News

Reuters

Amir Cohen

Incendiary kites, fires, smoke and rockets in Otef Aza (Gaza Envelope).

Confrontation between Palestinians and IDF soldiers at the border fence.

2nd prize

Series

News

Polaris Images

Ziv Koren

Confrontation between Palestinians and IDF soldiers at the border fence.

Toward the end of the war in Syria refugees were banned entry into Israel. At the same time, humanitarian and medical assistance continued for Syrian civilians as part of the “Good Neighbor” program conducted by the IDF. After Assad’s regime gained control over the border at the Golan Heights, the program was discontinued.

3rd prize

Series

News

Reuters

Ronen Zvulun

Toward the end of the war in Syria refugees were banned entry into Israel. At the same time, humanitarian and medical assistance continued for Syrian civilians as part of the “Good Neighbor” program conducted by the IDF. After Assad’s regime gained control over the border at the Golan Heights, the program was discontinued.

Shaul Elovitch and Nir Hefetz at the district court, during discussion of their detention.

Single

News

Shlomi Yosef

Shaul Elovitch and Nir Hefetz at the district court, during discussion of their detention.

Military helicopters searching for missing youth swept away in a flash flood in Nahal Tsafit. Twenty-five youths, who were on a trip conducted by a pre-military academy, were caught in the flood. Ten of them lost their lives in the disaster.

Single

News

Flash 90

Hadas Parush

Military helicopters searching for missing youth swept away in a flash flood in Nahal Tsafit. Twenty-five youths, who were on a trip conducted by a pre-military academy, were caught in the flood. Ten of them lost their lives in the disaster.

Family and friends of Rabbi Itamar Ben Gal, murdered by a terrorist near Tzomet Ariel, weeping at his funeral.

Single

News

Flash 90

Yonatan Sindel

Family and friends of Rabbi Itamar Ben Gal, murdered by a terrorist near Tzomet Ariel, weeping at his funeral.

A worker hanging up a sign with directions to the US Embassy in Armon Hanatziv.

Single

News

Flash 90

Yonatan Sindel

A worker hanging up a sign with directions to the US Embassy in Armon Hanatziv.

Reception for 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi, accompanied by her mother, upon her release after eight and a half months imprisonment for hitting a soldier.

Single

News

Contact Press Image

Kobi Wolf

Reception for 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi, accompanied by her mother, upon her release after eight and a half months imprisonment for hitting a soldier.

Arik Harari, one of the representatives of people with disabilities who participated in a Knesset discussion on the issue of a raise in income, confronting another representative and attempting to attack him.

Single

News

Oren Ben Hakoon

Israel Hayom

Arik Harari, one of the representatives of people with disabilities who participated in a Knesset discussion on the issue of a raise in income, confronting another representative and attempting to attack him.

A demonstrator protesting against corruption in front of the Prime Minister’s residence on the day the latter was interrogated by the police.

Single

News

Ohad Zwigenberg

ידיעות אחרונות

A demonstrator protesting against corruption in front of the Prime Minister’s residence on the day the latter was interrogated by the police.

Daily Life

Potrtaits

Culture and Art

Tom Yaar removing her makeup at the end of a day of filming for the program “Tom Yaar is doing matriculation”.

1st prize

Single

Urbanism and culture

Asaf Kliger

Tom Yaar removing her makeup at the end of a day of filming for the program “Tom Yaar is doing matriculation”.

Cleaning up the Carmel Market before the Sabbath.

2nd prize

Single

Urbanism and culture

Gabi Ben Avraham

Cleaning up the Carmel Market before the Sabbath.

Scaffolding at a building site. Every year several dozens of workers are killed due to faulty safety conditions, two and a half times more in comparison with the European Union. In 2018, 38 workers were killed and 162 injured in Israel.

3rd prize

Single

Urbanism and culture

Eli Basri

Scaffolding at a building site. Every year several dozens of workers are killed due to faulty safety conditions, two and a half times more in comparison with the European Union. In 2018, 38 workers were killed and 162 injured in Israel.

Roofs of Tel Aviv serve as a safe haven for various purposes.

1st prize

Series

Urbanism and culture

Reuters

Corinna Kern

Roofs of Tel Aviv serve as a safe haven for various purposes.

The light that infiltrates the Carmel Market through the tin roofs accords special color to human moments that characterize time and place.

2nd prize

Series

Urbanism and culture

Ilan Ben Yehuda

The light that infiltrates the Carmel Market through the tin roofs accords special color to human moments that characterize time and place.

The dog, man’s best friend, is often revealed as a fascinating entity and an inseparable part of the human and urban mosaic.

3rd prize

Series

Urbanism and culture

Ilan Burla

The dog, man’s best friend, is often revealed as a fascinating entity and an inseparable part of the human and urban mosaic.

A guard at the Louise Bourgeois “Twosome” exhibition.

Single

Urbanism and culture

Shlomo Serry

A guard at the Louise Bourgeois “Twosome” exhibition.

The old abandoned central bus station in the Bat Galim Neighborhood, reminiscent of the past despite its current condition.

Single

Urbanism and culture

Eli Atias

The old abandoned central bus station in the Bat Galim Neighborhood, reminiscent of the past despite its current condition.

Vered is a homeless woman, an unusual figure in the periphery of the periphery, an odd woman with a masculine appearance.

Single

Urbanism and culture

Ilan Ben Yehuda

Vered is a homeless woman, an unusual figure in the periphery of the periphery, an odd woman with a masculine appearance.

Students photographing actor Yon Tomarkin before a performance.

Single

Urbanism and culture

Avishag Shaar-Yashuv

Students photographing actor Yon Tomarkin before a performance.

Netta Barzilai at the Israel Calling event that took place prior to the Eurovision competition. The singer was awarded first place with the song "Toy" and became the fourth winner from Israel.

Single

Urbanism and culture

Avishag Shaar-Yashuv

Netta Barzilai at the Israel Calling event that took place prior to the Eurovision competition. The singer was awarded first place with the song "Toy" and became the fourth winner from Israel.

Nature and Environment

Israel Border Police at a camouflage drill.

1st prize

Single

Nature and environment

Ohad Zwigenberg

Yedioth Ahronoth

Israel Border Police at a camouflage drill.

Museum of Natural History Jerusalem, inaugurated in 1962 in a 19th century historic building, is in danger of closing down, the result of a real estate project.

2nd prize

Single

Nature and environment

Ohad Zwigenberg

Yedioth Ahronoth

Museum of Natural History Jerusalem, inaugurated in 1962 in a 19th century historic building, is in danger of closing down, the result of a real estate project.

A volunteer cleaning a sea turtle in the breeding center facilities at the National Sea Turtle Rescue Center run by Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority. There are approximately 23 16-year-old green sea turtles at the breeding center, that live there until they are 20 years old, the age of sexual maturity, when they will be released into the Mediterranean.

3rd prize

Single

Nature and environment

Flash 90

Hadas Parush

A volunteer cleaning a sea turtle in the breeding center facilities at the National Sea Turtle Rescue Center run by Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority. There are approximately 23 16-year-old green sea turtles at the breeding center, that live there until they are 20 years old, the age of sexual maturity, when they will be released into the Mediterranean.

Bathers and visitors at the Dead Sea, near Har Sdom.

1st prize

Series

Nature and environment

Alexander Bronfer

Bathers and visitors at the Dead Sea, near Har Sdom.

Expansive areas in the Dead Sea have been defined as dangerous due to the ecological disaster of the drying of the sea, which brought sinkholes in its wake. The number of sinkholes as of today is some 6,000, and the number grows at a rate of several hundred a year.

2nd prize

Series

Nature and environment

Mickey Brandt

Expansive areas in the Dead Sea have been defined as dangerous due to the ecological disaster of the drying of the sea, which brought sinkholes in its wake. The number of sinkholes as of today is some 6,000, and the number grows at a rate of several hundred a year.

Burnt fields near the Gaza border.

3rd prize

Series

Nature and environment

EPA

Abir Sultan

Burnt fields near the Gaza border.

Spider nets, that multiply in outstanding numbers, cover the vegetation on the banks of Nahal Sorek in impressive lace curtains. Treated sewage water is directed into the stream, thus enabling the growth of the Chironomus that serve as food for the spiders.

Single

Nature and environment

Alex Kolomoisky

Yedioth Ahronoth

Spider nets, that multiply in outstanding numbers, cover the vegetation on the banks of Nahal Sorek in impressive lace curtains. Treated sewage water is directed into the stream, thus enabling the growth of the Chironomus that serve as food for the spiders.

Inversion: air pressure at a height prevented the warm air in the Ramon Crater to rise and disperse; the warm air caused the water vapor to condense and flow into the crater.

Single

Nature and environment

Shlomo Serry

Inversion: air pressure at a height prevented the warm air in the Ramon Crater to rise and disperse; the warm air caused the water vapor to condense and flow into the crater.

Parachuting supplies during a demonstration of skills at the pilots’ course graduation ceremony.

Single

Nature and environment

Reuters

Amir Cohen

Parachuting supplies during a demonstration of skills at the pilots’ course graduation ceremony.

A natural fisherman’s harbor.

Single

Nature and environment

Bonnie (Manns) Levro

A natural fisherman’s harbor.

An abandoned carpark at the Kibbutz Ein Gedi guesthouse. The drop in the Dead Sea’s water level and the formation of sinkholes - both the result of the reduction in water flow in the Jordan River and the potash plants in Sdom - brought about an abandonment of extensive areas.

Single

Nature and environment

Mickey Brandt

An abandoned carpark at the Kibbutz Ein Gedi guesthouse. The drop in the Dead Sea’s water level and the formation of sinkholes - both the result of the reduction in water flow in the Jordan River and the potash plants in Sdom - brought about an abandonment of extensive areas.

Border fence with Jordan, alongside the protection fence at the Ramon International Airport in the Arava.

Single

Nature and environment

Independent

Doron Nissim

Border fence with Jordan, alongside the protection fence at the Ramon International Airport in the Arava.

Male horses, one young, one adult, battling for dominance.

Single

Nature and environment

Maor Kinsbursky

Male horses, one young, one adult, battling for dominance.

Sport

Yossi Benayoun, one of the best Israeli football players, came to play with Beitar Jerusalem. As a result of an argument with the owner, Eli Tabib, he was forced to leave the club.

1st prize

Single

sport

Ohad Zwigenberg

Yedioth Ahronoth

Yossi Benayoun, one of the best Israeli football players, came to play with Beitar Jerusalem. As a result of an argument with the owner, Eli Tabib, he was forced to leave the club.

Sergey Obruchnikov, a former professional boxer who came from the Russia, working out, strengthening the muscles at the back of his neck by lifting a weight hanging from his neck.

2nd prize

Single

sport

David Czernobilsky

Sergey Obruchnikov, a former professional boxer who came from the Russia, working out, strengthening the muscles at the back of his neck by lifting a weight hanging from his neck.

Giro d'Italia is one of the most exclusive bicycle races called the Grand Tour. In 2018, the race was conducted beyond the borders of Europe for the first time, and started off in Jerusalem.

3rd prize

Single

sport

Gilad Kavalerchik

Giro d'Italia is one of the most exclusive bicycle races called the Grand Tour. In 2018, the race was conducted beyond the borders of Europe for the first time, and started off in Jerusalem.

Horse race on a racecourse in the Negev.

1st prize

Series

sport

Michael Shvadron

Horse race on a racecourse in the Negev.

Behind the scenes, Israel bodybuilding championship.

2nd prize

Series

sport

Geni Agency

Tomer Neuberg

Behind the scenes, Israel bodybuilding championship.

A surfing competition for people with disabilities was held for the first time in Israel. Volunteers from the Ashdod Surfing Association helped in conducting the competition.

3rd prize

Series

sport

Avi Roccah

Yedioth Ahronoth

A surfing competition for people with disabilities was held for the first time in Israel. Volunteers from the Ashdod Surfing Association helped in conducting the competition.

Raphael Ruta in the Israeli championship in dynamic free diving.

Single

sport

Dudy Ardon

Raphael Ruta in the Israeli championship in dynamic free diving.

European judo championship, 90 kilo, quarter final competition. The judoka Yahor Varapayeu (in white) of Belarus wins over Batuhan Efemgil (in blue) of Turkey.

Single

sport

Nir Keidar

Haaretz

European judo championship, 90 kilo, quarter final competition. The judoka Yahor Varapayeu (in white) of Belarus wins over Batuhan Efemgil (in blue) of Turkey.

Almog Alfuma, a professional cyclist and trainer, riding in Single Beeri, after the cyclist route was severely damaged in one of the fires in Otef Aza.

Single

sport

Benny Doutsh

Almog Alfuma, a professional cyclist and trainer, riding in Single Beeri, after the cyclist route was severely damaged in one of the fires in Otef Aza.

Jimmy Beer at the national skateboard championship, as part of the Urban Challenge festival, in the adult category.

Single

sport

Lilach Weiss

Jimmy Beer at the national skateboard championship, as part of the Urban Challenge festival, in the adult category.

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