Putting out a fire caused by Katyusha strikes. During the war enormous damage was caused to the green spaces of the north: about 3,000 acres of forest and natural vegetation caught fire as well as 10,000 acres of pastureland. During the war the firefighters together with Keren Kayemet L’Israel fought the many forest fires, and after each alarm and announcement that the missiles had struck an open area, many volunteers went on the firefighting mission. The fires also harmed great numbers of animals—forest residents including birds, reptiles, and mammals. According to Keren Kayemet L’Israel, only in another 50 years will the forests again be what they were before the war.

A goat, resident of the petting zoo in Rishon Letzion, directs a gaze at the camera. The goat was first domesticated ten thousand years ago, and since then people have exploited her for their needs: benefiting from the milk that she gives, the soft wool that is sheared from her, and sometimes also from her skin and meat.

Two apples on this tree survived the cold winter that beset the Golan Heights

The “Infected Landscape” series has for five years been observing natural landscapes and interior spaces that bear marks of the violence of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and shows how military activity affects the landscape. “Infected Landscape” tries to restore the ethical dimension and political baggage to the familiar images of the Golan Heights

he Etgarim (Challenges) NGO works to rehabilitate children, teenagers, and adults with disabilities through challenging sports activities. With the help of special equipment, a professional team of counselors and, in particular, great faith in human capacities and spirit, Etgarim enables each person, with almost any type of disability, to ski on snowy mountains, parachute, make it through survival workshops in nature, and engage in a wide variety of challenging sports in the air, land, and sea.

The pictures in “Local Testimony” were photographed as part of a public relations project aimed at mobilizing contributions to the NGO. David Pilosof (Pilo) has for many years engaged in underwater photography and publishing magazines and books about the sea

A cave in the bowels of Mount Sodom, which is beside the Dead Sea. Mount Sodom is a unique geological phenomenon: a mountain made out of salt, and inside it many kilometers of meandering Karstean caves and tunnels ornamented with giant salt crystals. In the cave in the picture, movement is difficult, and the spectacular salt ceiling almost touches the water course of the underground lake at the heart of the mountain.