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Photo: Itay Cohen, Reuters | Local Testimony 2025
Dear photographers,
For the third time, the Local Testimony 2025 exhibition features the war and the public struggle for the release of the hostages. Early in October 2025 the ceasefire agreement was signed and the living hostages returned home, but both on the social and on the security level, the future is still unclear and fragile.
Our thanks are due to the many photographers who submitted over 7,000 photos, the dedicated jury, and curator Ilia Yefimovich, for their unique contribution to the 22-year-old tradition of representing documentary photography and photo journalism.
This year the exhibition will open on Thursday 11 December 2025 at MUZA Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, and will run for two months.
We will keep you up to date with newsletters and on social media with news of events alongside the exhibition.
Yours sincerely,
Dana Wohlfeiler-Lalkin, Founder and Executive Curator
Ilya Yefimovich, Exhibition Curation
and the Local Testimony 2025 board
Photographers participating in Local Testimony 2025:
Tsafrir Abayov| Oren Aharoni | Mustafa Alkharouf | Oren Alon | Tomer Appelbaum | Sharon Aronowicz | Eli Atias | Eli Basri | Oren Ben Hakoon | Ilan Ben Yehuda | Jonathan Bloom | Yuval Chen | Itay Cohen | Moshe Cohen | Gil Cohen-Magen | Galit Deutsch | Gil Eliyahu Biniat | Asaf Friedman | Ahmad Gharabli | Michael Giladi | Matan Golan | Chaim Goldberg | Naama Grynbaum | AG |Smadar Ilutowich | Noga Kalinsky | Roy Kasher | Gilad Kavalerchik | Dor Kedmi | Ziv Koren | Chen Leopold | Heidi Levine | Amir Levy | Cadya Levy | Yoav Loeff | Jalaa Marey | Ayal Margolin | Maya Meshel | Moti Milrod | Oz Moalem | Avishay Mohar | Tomer Neuberg | Eliya-Yam Nisim | Shay Lee Nissim | Yair Palti | Lior Patel | Bar Peleg | Itai Ron | Avishag Shaar-Yashuv | Ofek Shalom | Rami Shlush | Niv Shtendel | Yonatan Sindel | Or Sitt | Naama Stern | Abir Sultan | Shir Torem | Eyal Warshavsky | Kobi Wolf | Yehoshua Yosef | Inbar Zak | Oren Ziv | Ronen Zvulun | Ohad Zwigenberg
Members of the Jury – Local Testimony 2025
Nir Elias, photojournalist and director of the photography department of the Reuters news agency in Israel
Ilan Itzhayek, journalist, editor in the Yedioth Ahronoth/ynet Group and head of the journalism track at Sapir Academic College
Vardi Kahana, photographer, curator and Local Testimony board member
Miki Kratsman, artist-activist and lecturer in the photography department of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Guy Raz, photography curator, MUZA – Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
Giora Salmi, Photographer, educator, and director of the Geographic Photography School
Nurit Yarden, artist, instructor, curator and lecturer on photography
Ilia Yefimovich, documentarian, photographer for the German DPA news agency and curator of Local Testimony 2025
Sagit Zluf Namir, artist, lecturer and photography curator
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