
Photography: Daniel Bar-On
Local Testimony 2008
Gallery
2008
Photo of the Year | Series of the Year | News | Daily Life | Portraits | Culture and Art | Nature and Environment | Sport | Urbanism | Religion and faith | Video
Reli Avrahami, Photographer and Photography Teacher
Dr. Meirav Alush-Levron, Department of Political Science, Bar-Ilan University
Ala Hlehel, Journalist and Author
Sanaa Hamoud, Media Professional
Alex Levac, Photographer
Gabi Menashe, Photographer and Photo Editor at ynet
Roni Sofer, Photographer, former editor of Contact Magazine
Miki Kratsman, Photographer and Head of the Photography Department at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
Photo of the year
A.P
Muhammed Muheisen
A Palestinian youth runs to avoid tear gas grenades fired to disperse a demonstration against the separation barrier in Bil'in.
June 6, 2008
Series of the Year
Independent
Felix Lupa
Two homeless people found refuge in an abandoned car in Tel-Aviv. Boris, aged 54, a foreign worker blinded during his stay here and Genadi, aged 70, an aged homeless person. Genadi, who was a senior engineer and industrial manager in Russia, took Boris under his patronage, cared for him devotedly and brought him to live in the car until they were chased away.
June 6, 2008
News
1st prize
Single
News
Maan Images
Wissam Nassar
The corpse of 2 weeks-old baby lies in her house in Gaza, waiting for the funeral procession. A bullet hit Amira's head when a combat erupted during Israel Defense Force soldiers' raid into Al Qarara neighborhood in Khan-Yunis to capture a wanted person.
March 5, 2008
2nd prize
Series
News
A.P
Muhammed Muheisen
The struggle against the building of the separation wall and life in the shadow of the wall sharpen the contrast between what Israel sees as security measures whereas Palestinians perceive as land robbery. Bil'in and Na'alin became the focus of a prolonged struggle in which Palestinians and members of International and Israeli organizations participate.
November 2007 – July 2008
1st prize
Series
Politics
A.P
Muhammed Muheisen
Refugee Camps
While the State of Israel is celebrating its 60th anniversary, Palestinians in refugee camps mark the Naqba, the disaster of the 1948 war when they lost their homes and became refugees. The crowded density, daily hardship and symbols: house-keys, organizations' graffiti slogans and posters of pictures of prisoners and Shaheeds shape life in the camps.
October 2007– August 2008
2nd prize
Series
Politics
Independent
Quique Kierszenbaum
Route 443 – Segregation Road
With the outbreak of the second Intifada at the end of 2000, Israel severely restricted the movement of Palestinian vehicles on Route 443, a main road for neighboring Palestinian villages. All roads leading to this route were blocked.
December 12, 2007
Daily Life
2nd prize
Series
Society and community
Michal Fattal
Flash 90
Bnei Hamenashe Remarry
For the last 50 years Bnei Hamenashe seek their roots in Judaism as one of the lost tribes of Israel. Today 7000 Bnei Hamenashe in the States of Manipur and Mizoram in North India live full Jewish lives. Those who immigrate to Israel undergo Orthodox conversion in the framework of which they have to remarry according to Jewish Law.
March - May, 2008
3rd prize
Series
Society and community
Eddie Gerald
Laif Agency
Transparent Women
For years now there is active sex commerce in the Neve-Shaanan neighborhood in Tel-Aviv. Many women were brought there by international crime organizations by means of seduction, coercion and threats. In some brothels illegally smuggled women are hidden.
December, 2007
1st prize
Series
Daily life
Michal Fattal
Flash 90
The government of Israel decided to stop Falashmura immigration. Falashmura are Jews who converted to Christianity in former generations since the mid 19th century, mainly due to social and economic pressures. In the past Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar established that they are seed of Israel and ruled that they should undergo religious conversion and return to Judaism.
April – August 2008
2nd prize
Series
Daily life
Quique Kierszenbaum
Independent
Collateral Damage
The Amin family car was hit in Gaza when passing by a car of a wanted person which was attacked. The mother Neima, the grandmother Hanaan, the son Muhammad and the uncle Nahed were killed. The daughter Maria was badly injured and is paralyzed from her head down. She was transferred to Israel for care and rehabilitation. The father Hamdi Amin is struggling through High Court of Justice against the State's intention to stop her rehabilitation in Israel. Meanwhile Maria studies at the Yad be-Yad bilingual school in Jerusalem.
October 11, 2007
3rd prize
Series
Daily life
Rina Castelnuovo
The New York Times
"Color Red" - ("Tzeva Adom")
No picture can express the suffering of children growing up in shadow of war waging for seven years all around them. Every third child in Sderot is suffering from anxiety or PTDS (post traumatic stress disorder). They have 20 seconds to run for shelter from Qassam missiles. The few captured here miraculously survived rocket strikes on their homes, on their way to school, while shopping, playing, showering, when everyday life comes to an abrupt halt.
January - April 2008
Potrtaits
1st prize
Single
Portraits
Independent
Viatcheslav Pirsky
I chose to photograph my seven-year old daughter who attends an anthroposophist school. Anthroposophist philosophy divides human development into life-cycles lasting seven years. The picture is a stage in documenting these cycles.
September 9, 2007
3rd prize
Single
Portraits
Nir Kafri
Haaretz
Najah, a 46 year old Palestinian widow from Za'ida near Tulkarem, mother of seven and widower Ibrahim el Karnawi aged 80 from Rahat, married in 1995. Mahamoud, their only common son aged ten, was killed when a combat erupted during action of "mistaarvim" undercover Border Police unit, at the home of his mothers' family. His half brothers are 'wanted' Islamic Jihad persons; his nephews on his fathe
ספטמבר, 2007
1st prize
Series
Portraits
Independent
Dudu Azoulay
Door to Hope
A non-profit association called "Door to Hope" operates in the central bus-station area in Tel-Aviv. The association takes care of drug-addicted and sexually exploited women. They find there an open door, a warm meal, hot shower, clean cloths and most importantly warmth and acceptance.
2nd prize
Series
Portraits
Yuval Tebol
Haaretz
The Studio
In honor of Israel 60th anniversary, Haaretz Supplement documented ten well known visual artists at their most private place, the studio. Nelly Agassi, Eli Gur-Arieh, Yehudit Levin, Nurit David, Tal Mazliach, Marco Shani, Deganit Berest, Moshe Gershuni, Yaakov Dorchin, Yair Garbuz.
April, 2008
3rd prize
Series
Portraits
Eldad Rafaeli
Telerama, Yediot Ahronot
Youths
On the threshold of adulthood youths express a world of identities and aspirations: Adi Shoshani from Sderot before recruitment, Snir Rosenthal, senior tattooist, a Sheinkin-street girl dreaming of work in fashion, Bedouin girl struggling against the fence, Efrat, settlement resident and violinist, Elchanan, Kfar Chabad Yeshiva student, Ben Gatenyu from Bat-Yam expelled from school dreams of making the Israeli version of "Jackass".
2007
Culture and Art
1st prize
Single
Culture and art
Jini Photowire
Tess Scheflan
Tamir Lederberg, graduate of the Photography Department at Hadassah College in Jerusalem presented her finals' exhibition outside the Underground Prisoners Museum in the capital. The Ministry of Defense forbade the exhibition among others because it dealt with queer sexuality and protest against the occupation.
July 31, 2008
1st prize
Series
Culture and art
Independent
Hagai Hirschfeld
The drag queens
The drag queens performance crystallized at the "Shushan" club for the gay community in Jerusalem. The queens: Talula Bonet, Chiara Dopla, Diva Di, Ziona Patriot and Galina Fordovra became drag leaders in the homo-lesbian community of Tel-Aviv. At stand-up performances, bachelor parties and weddings they present actual topics, imitate artists and bring up social symbols.
2008
Nature and Environment
2nd prize
Series
Nature and environment
צלם עצמאי
Tomer Appelbaum
Landscapes
The center of the country is laden with concrete buildings, towers and roads. Out of town – yellow desert, green desert. Lack of colors blurs the signs of time. A simple plastic camera expresses landscapes as they are, without the characteristic magnificence of classic landscape photography.
September 2007 – January 2008
Sport
1st prize
Series
sport
Independent
Tomer Appelbaum
Pascal's story
23 years since a tragic accident has changed her life in France, Pascal Berkowitz, aged 40, participated in the Paralympics Games in Beijing. After long months of preparation and training, Pascal took part in the academic rowing profession, where the rower sits with her back to the direction of progress.
August, 2008
Urbanism
3rd prize
Single
Lifestyle
EPA
Alaa Badarneh
Palestinians relax at the Hamam al-Somara in the old West Bank City of Nablus.The Hamam, a traditional Turkish steam bath, is one of the ancient archaeological sites in Nablus. It was built during the Turkish period about 200 years ago. The site destroyed by the Israeli army in 2002 was rebuilt since.
July 8, 2008
Religion and Faith
3rd prize
Single
Religion and faith
Getty Images
David Silverman
An ultra-Orthodox Jew flogs his son with a belt in symbolic punishment for his sins during the traditional Malkot (flogging) ceremony while other believers have a ritual bath at Nebi Samuel spring before Yom Kippur starts.
September 21, 2007
1st prize
Series
Religion and faith
Miriam Tsachi
Makor Reshon
Joseph's Tomb
Visitors are allowed to enter Joseph's Tomb in the heart of the city of Nablus from midnight to sunrise, while the Palestinian residents are asleep. A wide variety of people - haredim, knit-cap wearers, laics, children and infants come with military accompaniment to unburden their hearts or mark a happy event.
December, May 2007













































































