Photography: Moti Milrod
Local Testimony 2023
Gallery
2023
Photo of the Year | News | Daily Life | Portraits | Culture and Art | Nature and Environment | Sport
Maya Anner, curator and researcher in the field of photography
Oded Balilty, photojournalist and director of the photography department of the AP news agency in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip
Eddie Gerald, documentary photographer and lecturer at the Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem
Ilan Itzhayek, journalist and editor in the Yediot Ahronoth Group and head of the journalism track at Sapir Academic College
Menahem Kahana, photojournalist at the AFP news agency
Vardi Kahana, photographer, curator, and Local Testimony board member
Guy Raz, photography curator, MUZA – Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
Anat Saragusti, journalist, photographer, documentarian and curator of Local Testimony 2023
Osnat Trabelsi, producer and documentarian
Photo of the year
AP
Ariel Schalit
A demonstrator at a pro-democracy protest.
Ayalon Highway, Tel Aviv, 20
July 2023
News
1st prize
Single
News
Chaim Goldberg
Kikar Hashabbat
A police unit during a search for the perpetrator of a terror shooting attack.
2nd prize
Single
News
Flash 90
Tomer Neuberg
Detaining a demonstrator at the Ethiopian community’s protest against the conduct of the State Attorney’s
Office after Rafael Adana, aged four, was hit by a car and killed.
3rd prize
Single
News
AP
Ohad Zwigenberg
Clashes between police and demonstrators at a pro-democracy protest.
1st prize
Series
News
Hadas Parush
Haaretz
As the pro-democracy protests intensified, police actions against the demonstrators increased in force, with the use of water cannons and mounted police.
2nd prize
Series
News
Moti Milrod
Haaretz
Days of disruption during the pro-democracy protests.
3rd prize
Series
News
Reuters
Ronen Zvulun
A unit from the IDF Home Front Command and United Hatzalah on rescue operations following the earthquake in Turkey. More than 60,000 were killed and hundreds of thousands made homeless.
Single
News
Fadi Amun
Shikma Bressler, one of the leaders of the pro-democracy protests, being detained at a demonstration next to a Rafael factory.
Single
News
Flash 90
Yonatan Sindel
a selfie with Justice Minister Yariv Levin after the passing of the reasonableness standard bill.
Single
News
Jonathan Bloom
Aviv Kochavi, 22nd Chief of General Staff.
Single
News
DPA
Ilia Yefimovich
Single
News
Flash 90
Yonatan Sindel
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at a special cabinet meeting held in the Western Wall tunnels to mark
Jerusalem Day.
Single
News
AP
Ohad Zwigenberg
A spontaneous demonstration by tens of thousands of participants, following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to dismiss Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who had expressed concern at the damage
that judicial reform would cause to the army’s state of readiness.
DEMOCRACY PRIZE, “SHOMRIM” - THE CENTER FOR MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY
Single
News
Flash 90
Shir Torem
On 23 November Tiran Peru, an Israeli Druze youth, was kidnapped by terrorists while he was under anaesthetics and connected to a ventilator in a hospital in Jenin, after having been injured in a road accident. The next day his body was returned, and his funeral was held on the same day, which was also his 18th birthday.
Single
News
Tomer Appelbaum
Haaretz
The funeral of Sgt. Lia Ben Nun, killed along with Staff Sgt. Ori Yitzhak Iluz and Staff Sgt. Ohad Dahan by an Egyptian soldier in a cross-border incursion.
Single
News
Tomer Appelbaum
Haaretz
A demonstrator hit by a jet from a water cannon in a pro-democracy protest.
Single
News
DPA
Ilia Yefimovich
Cars torched by settlers after an attack in which two Israelis were murdered
Single
News
AP
Ohad Zwigenberg
The wife and children of Meir Tamari, murdered in a shooting attack in Samaria, at his funeral.
Daily Life
Potrtaits
Culture and Art
1st prize
Single
Urbanism and culture
Felix Lupa
On Gordon Beach
2nd prize
Single
Urbanism and culture
Felix Lupa
Visitors in the underwater observatory.
3rd prize
Single
Urbanism and culture
DPA
Ilia Yefimovich
A pastoral image on the northern border fence after a rally of rocket fire from Lebanon.
1st prize
Series
Urbanism and culture
Oren Ziv
Local Call
Remains of buildings of Palestinian Bedouin communities, who were forced to abandon their homes in
Ein Samiya and Qabun following violence by settlers.
2nd prize
Series
Urbanism and culture
Sagit Fridman-Hallel
A chance meeting led to a unique connection between two artists: the photographer Sagit Fridman-Hallel and Holocaust survivor Anni Scholnick, a 104-year-old new immigrant from Italy who had worked as a photographer. Because of her limited mobility, Anni’s bedroom became an improvised studio, where she
was transformed from photographer to muse and photographic subject.
Single
Urbanism and culture
Eric Sultan
for Israel Hayom
Yitzhak Klepter at his home, a week before his death.
Single
Urbanism and culture
EPA
Abir Sultan
A protest performance by the Bonot Alternativa group at the Yitzhak Navon train station.
Nature and Environment
1st prize
Single
Nature and environment
Jacob Bahar
A Eurasian eagle-owl fledgling
2nd prize
Single
Nature and environment
Yehuda Weinberg
Wind turbines on the Golan Heights are at the center of a struggle against further construction.
3rd prize
Single
Nature and environment
Avi Roccah
Walla!
A surfer passing by plastic cups that fell out of a container and polluted the beach.
1st prize
Series
Nature and environment
Itay Cohen
Flame-retardant sprayed from a fire-fighting aircraft to prevent a wildfire spreading to the Shuni Amphitheater.
2nd prize
Series
Nature and environment
Tom Shlesinger
A long-term project monitoring the nocturnal release of coral reproductive cells.
Single
Nature and environment
Yael Guisky Abas
Male barn owl (left) feeding a mature fledgling
Single
Nature and environment
EPA
Abir Sultan
Super blue moon rising, at the closest approach of its orbit to the Earth.
Single
Nature and environment
Jonathan Alk
Yulia, a Mediterranean monk seal who visited the shores of Israel over several weeks.
Single
Nature and environment
Doron Talmi
The Tovlan-Massua recycling facility and landfill attracts tens of thousands of birds, including cattle
egrets and jackdaws.
Single
Nature and environment
Doron Talmi
In a scene reminiscent of the Bible, a group of ibex hoping to be fed follows a young woman wrapped in a blanket on her way to the edge of Makhtesh Ramon to watch the sunrise.
Sport
1st prize
Single
sport
Yuval Daniel
Gate 5 at Bloomfield Stadium, identified with Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer team supporters, wreathed in smoke
and torchlight during a derby match.
2nd prize
Single
sport
Michel Braunstein
Israel’s artistic swimming team during a practice.
3rd prize
Single
sport
GPO
Kobi Gideon
President Isaac Herzog being evacuated from the Sammy Ofer Stadium after Betar Jerusalem had won the State Cup, but the presentation ceremony was cancelled due
to their supporters invading the pitch.
1st prize
Series
sport
Tal Givony
Team captains of the Israeli women’s premier soccer league.
2nd prize
Series
sport
Nir Keidar
Haaretz
Israeli boxing championship.
Single
sport
Oz Moalem
Yediot Ahronoth
Quarter final of the EuroLeague. The third basketball match in the series between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Monaco.
Single
sport
Oz Moalem
Yediot Ahronoth
Shimon Mizrahi, chairman of Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team, standing with a fireman facing a terrace wreathed in smoke and the flames of torches lit by Hapoel Tel Aviv supporters at Menora Mivtachim Arena during the first game of the finals.
Single
sport
Rabia Basha
The soccer league championship cup held high after Maccabi Haifa’s third straight win.
Single
sport
Gilad Topaz
Rowers from the Tel Aviv Sailing Club warming up for a contest.