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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

What Is Your Favorite Photo Essay? Here Are Ours (Israel's Picture A Day)

Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta)


Posted: 17 Jun 2013 09:22 PM PDT
With more than 300 photo essays published, and in preparation for a book, we would like to know which are your favorite photos and essays.  

Write your favorites in the comment section below

Here are some of our favorites over the last two years:
Rabbi Kook

Rabbi Kook, Chief Rabbi of Palestine, meets President Coolidge in the White House in 1924.


The Emperor arrives
* The Jews of Jerusalem welcome the GermanEmperor in 1898.



Expulsion 1929
* The expulsion of the Jews of the Old City of Jerusalem in 1929, 1936, and 1948.


First pictures of the Kotel
The first pictures of the Western Wall in the 1850s.



German General
* The German general who saved the Jews of Palestine from massacre in 1917.




Surrender of Jerusalem
* The surrender of Jerusalem to British sergeants in World War I.

Enter your favorite photo essay in the comment section below


Why are these children marching?

* The mysterious picture of Jewish children marching - where, why, and when?



Rachel's Tomb
* First photographs of Rachel's Tomb, Tomb of the Patriarchs and Tomb of Joseph.




From Jew to Christian preacher

* The first Jewish Tomb of Joseph photographer in Jerusalem. Why did he and his photographs disappear?


Contents of the Cigarbox

* The "Cigarbox collection" of photos returns to the Land of Israel.




Australian light cavalry

* The Australians capture Be'er Sheva in 1917.


Old Yemenite Jew

* The arrival of Yemenite Jews in the 1800s-- "The Gadites"



Under Al Aqsa mosque
* The secret photos taken under the Temple Mt in Jerusalem.


Jaffa Gate

The gates of Jerusalem's Old City.


Hebron synagogue



* Photos after the 1929 massacre in Hebron.



Doctor and elderly Jews
* The Christian doctor in Tiberias who treated and photographed Jewish patients.


Yemin Moshe
* The first Jewish communities outside of Jerusalem, and the new Jewish settlements in the Galilee.


Jerusalem child

* The little children of the Land of Israel.




"Ruth" 100 years ago
* The Book of Ruth Re-enacted.