
Photography: Kobi Wolf
Local Testimony 2018
Gallery
2018
Photo of the Year | News | Daily Life | Portraits | Culture and Art | Nature and Environment | Sport
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
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.
Daily Life
Potrtaits
Culture and Art
Nature and Environment
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.
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.
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.
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.

























































