
Photography: Olivier Fitoussi
Local Testimony 2020
Gallery
2020
Photo of the Year | News | Daily Life | Portraits | Culture and Art | Nature and Environment | Sport
Ilan Itzhayek, principal editor of Yedioth Ahronoth’s Xnet website
Ayelet Hashahar Cohen, artist, curator and teacher. Head of the Photography Department of the Musrara School of Art and manager of the Musrara Gallery, Jerusalem
Vardi Kahana, photographer, lecturer, curator and member of the Local Testimony editorial board
Heidi Levine, photo-journalist
Rami Maymon, artist, photographer and lecturer
Doron Tsabari, director
Eldad Rafaeli, photographer, artist and curator of the Local Testimony 2020 exhibition
Etty Schwartz, photographer, curator and lecturer
Ami Steinitz, curator and member of the Local Testimony editorial board
Photo of the year
Tomer Appelbaum
Haaretz
The Black Flag protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and governmental corruption during the COVID-19 pandemic; the demonstrators maintained a distance of two meters from one another.
Rabin Square, Tel Aviv
April 19, 2020
News
Daily Life
Potrtaits
Culture and Art
1st prize
Series
Urbanism and culture
Lior Horesh
The Human Experience.
In this series, the subjects were stripped of their distinguishing features and recast into situations that reflect an elusive, alienated, and surprising experience of existence, moving between identity, loneliness, alienation, meaning, and confusion.
Nature and Environment
1st prize
Series
Nature and environment
Lior Fattal
In 2004, the Electrochemical Industries plant closed due to a fire. The structure remains abandoned to this day. The plant used hazardous materials, such as mercury, which led to severe illnesses among workers. Legal battles are still ongoing regarding soil contamination, sea pollution, and responsibility for cleaning up the complex.
2nd prize
Series
Nature and environment
Ofer Vaknin
Haaretz
During the initial weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown, Yarkon Park emptied of visitors. Consequently, hungry jackals began gathering in large groups. Lacking the food scraps typically left behind by park visitors, the jackals were forced to eat the fruits of the Ficus trees and attempted to hunt pigeons.
Series
Nature and environment
Flash 90
Yaniv Nadav
The "Deal of the Century," a peace plan between Israel and the Palestinians proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump and published in January 2020, recognized Israeli sovereignty over the settlements and pushed the Right to immediately annex the Jordan Valley. In exchange for the normalization agreement with the United Arab Emirates, published in August, Israel postponed the annexation plan.
Sport
1st prize
Single
sport
Yuval Daniel
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, public entry to sports fields was prohibited, so fans came to offer support from the outside. Hapoel Tel Aviv fans on the fences of the Khodorov Complex (Hapoel Tel Aviv's training grounds), watching a practice match against Hapoel Ashkelon.






















































