Photography: Uriel Sinai
Local Testimony 2011
Gallery
2011
Photo of the Year | Series of the Year | News | Daily Life | Portraits | Culture and Art | Nature and Environment | Sport | Urbanism | Religion and faith | Video
Galia Gur Zeev, photographer, exhibition curator
Eddie Gerald, documentary photographer
David Silverman, photojournalist
Ami Steinitz, curator
Zachi Becker, deputy director general, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv.
Eddie Gerald, documentary photographer
Judith Guetta, artist, curator, head of engineering photography department, Sapir Academic College; head of applied photography department, Hadassah College
Ayelet Hashachar Cohen, artist, curator, head of photography department, Musrara School of Art
Tal Niv, Haaretz, English edition magazine, editor
David Silverman, photographer
Eran Tiefenbrunn, vice chief editor, ynet
Photo of the year
AFP
Ilia Yefimovich
An Israeli motorist runs down a Palestinian youth while trying to escape a group of youngsters that had hurled stones at Israeli cars in Silwan, east Jerusalem.
October 8, 2010
Series of the Year
Independent
Yuval Tebol
Leading figures in the tent city protest.
October 8, 2010
News
1st prize
Single
News
Panos Pictures
Ahikam Seri
A rocket, launched from Gaza, landed in an open field in Ashdod.
March 24, 2011
2nd prize
Single
News
Reuters
Amir Cohen
Iron Dome battery soldiers in foxholes in Ashkelon during an air raid warning.
April 9, 2011
3rd prize
Single
News
Ohad Zwigenberg
Y-net
Moshe Katzav, former president of the State of Israel, leaving the courtroom after he was found guilty of rape, indecent behavior, sexual harassment and the obstruction of justice.
December 30, 2010
1st prize
Series
News
Independent
Kfir Sivan
African refugees, seeking asylum in Israel, are hunted down and often shot by Egyptian security forces. The shooting incidents frequently encroach unto Israeli territory.
October 2010
2nd prize
Series
News
Getty Images
Uriel Sinai
Events of the Nakba Day (in Arabic: catastrophe) at the Kalandia checkpoint and East Jerusalem. On this day the Palestinians mark the national catastrophe that took place in the wake of the
1948 War of Independence.
May 13-15, 2011
3rd prize
Series
News
Polaris Images
Ziv Koren
The Naksa Day riots in Majdal Shames on the Syrian border, during which Palestinian refugees tried to cross the border fence with Israel. Some 20 Syrian Palestinians were killed by the Israeli security forces, who pushed back the protesters' attempt of infiltration.
June 5, 2011
Single
News
Rina Castelnuovo
New York Times
Firefighters resting during the Carmel Range forest fire.
December 3, 2010
Daily Life
1st prize
Single
Daily life
Rina Castelnuovo
New York Times
An Israel Border Police woman soldier checking Palestinian women at the Kalandia checkpoint on their way to prayers in Jerusalem.
August 26, 2011
2nd prize
Single
Daily life
Oren Ziv
Achbar Ha'ir
Young people celebrating, against the background of the social justice mass demonstration in the center of Tel Aviv.
August 27, 2011
1st prize
Series
Daily life
Tomer Ifrah
Independent
Women prisoners at the Neve Tirzah Prison.
May 15 - August 1, 2011
2nd prize
Series
Daily life
Nati Shohat
Flash 90
An operation carried out by the Arab Platoons (IDF counter-terrorism units) in the West Bank and in Israel.
August 28 – September 1, 2011
3rd prize
Series
Daily life
Ammar Younis
Independent
Winter 2011
Potrtaits
1st prize
Single
Portraits
Polaris
Ziv Koren
President of Israel, Shimon Peres, on a visit to the Special Central Unit – the elite counterterrorism unit.
February 3, 2011
2nd prize
Single
Portraits
Yehoshua Yosef
Independent Photographer for Israel Today
Shachar Greenspan was critically injured by a drunk driver in December 2009. Protesting against a lenient plea bargain, her sister Yael wrote a moving letter on Facebook that stirred a great deal of public interest.
March 2011
3rd prize
Single
Portraits
Yuval Chen
Yedioth Aharanot
Yael Dayan during a march in Tel Aviv, protesting against the setting up of a refugee detention camp.
December 24, 2010
1st prize
Series
Portraits
Independent
Ammar Younis
Brides in white - documentation of Arab women, all over 80 – part of the “Memory of a Place” project at the Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery.
Summer 2011
2nd prize
Series
Portraits
Independent
Lior Patel
Shmuel Leshed, a 100-year old Holocaust survivor, clown and beggar, appearing in the streets of Haifa and Tel Aviv.
May 2011
Culture and Art
1st prize
Single
Culture and art
Omer Miron
Walla
Jacky Menachem, winner of the third Big Brother TV series.
March 26, 2011
2nd prize
Single
Culture and art
Atta Awisat
Yedioth Aharanot
Yehuda Braun, an artist, marching in the streets of Jerusalem dressed as a soldier in white.
March 18, 2011
1st prize
Series
Culture and art
Independent
Dan Balilty
Burlesque, called She Devils a Go-Go, performed by a group of Israeli and international artists, Tel Aviv.
July 1, 2011
2nd prize
Series
Culture and art
Independent
Dima Vazinovich
Body suspension ceremonies – hanging the body by hooks, inspired by an ancient Indian custom designed to examine a person’s ability to bear pain – take place clandestinely throughout the country.
April 30 - August 15, 2011
1st prize
Single
Urbanism and culture
Independent
Ammar Younis
The Mahamid Quarter in the town of Umm el-Fahem.
August 13, 2011
2nd prize
Single
Urbanism and culture
Activestills
Oren Ziv
A Jerusalem building site.
December 29, 2010
3rd prize
Single
Urbanism and culture
Nir Kafri
Haaretz
The fire at the Netanya IKEA branch; the entire store burnt down.
February 5, 2011
1st prize
Series
Urbanism and culture
Independent
Felix Lupa
Urban war doves - a photographer's view of the encounter between man and symbol.
June 15 – August 12, 2011
2nd prize
Series
Urbanism and culture
Daniel Tchetchik
Haaretz
A water pipe that burst during the summer in the southern part of Tel Aviv, turning a parking lot into a playground.
August 27, 2011
3rd prize
Series
Urbanism and culture
Independent
Kobi Wolf
The tent city protest, Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv.
Summer 2011
Nature and Environment
1st prize
Single
Nature and environment
Independent
Eli Atias
Kassar el Yahud – buffer zone between Israel and Jordan.
January 18, 2011
2nd prize
Single
Nature and environment
Independent
Hedva Shefaram
A custard apple tree in the Ein Iron moshav.
June 5, 2011
3rd prize
Single
Nature and environment
Independent
Eldad Rafaeli
The forest fire on the Carmel Range.
December 6, 2010
1st prize
Series
Nature and environment
Yakov Nahomie
bhol.co.il
The wildlife veterinary hospital at the amat Gan Safari.
November 3–8, 2010
2nd prize
Series
Nature and environment
Independent
Neta Alonim
Views from the windows of schools and public buildings in the Palestinian Authority villages.
February 1 – June 30, 2011
3rd prize
Series
Nature and environment
Getty Images
Uriel Sinai
The forest fire on the Carmel Range, the worst natural disaster in the history of the State of Israel.
December 2–5, 2010
Sport
1st prize
Single
sport
Jorge Novominsky
Jorge Novominsky
Yinon Yisraeli, training for the distance jump at the Hadar Yosef athletics stadium.
July 11, 2011
2nd prize
Single
sport
Flash 90
Kobi Gideon
Israel’s soccer cup final between Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa, Ramat Gan stadium.
May 25, 2011
3rd prize
Single
sport
RTR
Ilia Yefimovich
Volleyball championship final in Jerusalem, between Hapoel Mateh Asher and Macabbi Tel Aviv.
February 17, 2011
1st prize
Series
sport
Independent
Matanya Tausig
Israeli and Palestinian parkourists training together in Jerusalem.
November 1 – December 30, 2010
2nd prize
Series
sport
Amit Magal
Yedioth Aharanot
Planking – an open contest in which participants lie face down on various objects, their arms at their sides, for several seconds.
May 31 – June 1, 2011
3rd prize
Series
sport
Independent
Assaf Gavra
Alon Rivkind, the first Israeli who broke the 100-meter barrier in free diving without breathing apparatus.
August 10, 2011
Urbanism
1st prize
Single
Urbanism and culture
Independent
Ammar Younis
The Mahamid Quarter in the town of Umm el-Fahem.
August 13, 2011
2nd prize
Single
Urbanism and culture
Activestills
Oren Ziv
A Jerusalem building site.
December 29, 2010
3rd prize
Single
Urbanism and culture
Nir Kafri
Haaretz
The fire at the Netanya IKEA branch; the entire store burnt down.
February 5, 2011
1st prize
Series
Urbanism and culture
Independent
Felix Lupa
Urban war doves - a photographer's view of the encounter between man and symbol.
June 15 – August 12, 2011
2nd prize
Series
Urbanism and culture
Daniel Tchetchik
Haaretz
A water pipe that burst during the summer in the southern part of Tel Aviv, turning a parking lot into a playground.
August 27, 2011
3rd prize
Series
Urbanism and culture
Independent
Kobi Wolf
The tent city protest, Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv.
Summer 2011
Religion and Faith
1st prize
Single
Religion and faith
Reuters
Ronen Zvulun
Jews praying at Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus.
May 30, 2011
2nd prize
Single
Religion and faith
Gil Cohen Magen
Haaretz
3rd prize
Single
Religion and faith
Yakov Nahomie
bhol.co.il
Ultra-Orthodox men at the Ein Koves spring near the grave of Rabbi Isaac Luria.
August 5, 2011
1st prize
Series
Religion and faith
Yakov Nahomie
bhol.co.il
An ultra-Orthodox couple that met through a matchmaker, during the period between their engagement and marriage.
January 13 – June 2, 2011
2nd prize
Series
Religion and faith
Abir Sultan
A glimpse of the lives of 16 monks who live in the Mar Saba Monastery on the banks of Nahal Kidron, east of Bethlehem. Some of them have not left the monastery for 60 years. The monastery is not connected to the electricity grid or the telephone network.
17–19 December, 2010
Single
Religion and faith
Flash 90
Kobi Gideon
Pilgrims attending the Service of the Holy Fire in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher during Easter Week in Jerusalem.
April 17, 2011
Video
Eyal Landesman
Home for me is freedom – fifteen families of refugee and foreign workers from fifteen different countries and nations talk about the meaning of the concept "home."
Felix Lupa
Valley of the shadow of death (Psalms 23, 4)
Rafael Shahar
The story of Lior Reshef, a young and promising musician who became a destitute drug addict.
Eran Amir
500 People in 100 Seconds!