Showing posts with label David Rubinger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Rubinger. Show all posts

Friday, March 3, 2017

Israel Mourns Loss of Award-Winning War Photographer - CBN News Tzippe Barrow

Israel Mourns Loss of Award-Winning War Photographer

03-02-2017  CBN News Tzippe Barrow

JERUSALEM, Israel – Israel lost one of its most beloved citizens, David Rubinger, who passed away Wednesday morning at his Jerusalem residence at the age of 92.
Born in 1924 in Vienna, Rubinger immigrated to pre-state Israel in 1939, just as the Nazi reign of terror was spreading across Europe.
His career as a photojournalist for TIME-LIFE magazine spanned nearly 50 years. He covered wars on the frontlines and at home photographed almost every Israeli prime minister, capturing them with their families and at work in the Knesset. He is the sole photographer to have his work on permanent display at the Knesset.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Jerusalem: 'A Very Heavy Stone' By Tzippe Barrow

Jerusalem: 'A Very Heavy Stone'



JERUSALEM, Israel -- With Jerusalem increasingly the focus of much of the world, the words of the ancient Jewish prophet Zechariah come to mind, especially for those who believe the Bible is the Spirit-breathed, inerrant Word of God.
"Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it…It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem." (Zechariah 12:2-3, 9)
A great deal has been written about Jerusalem over the years. The city's central role in Judaism is based on the Tenach, the Hebrew Bible, which records the history of the Israelites.
Throughout the nearly 2,000 years that Jewish people were scattered throughout the nations, synagogues were constructed so congregants faced toward Jerusalem when listening to the weekly Torah portion and praying.
Jerusalem is mentioned many hundreds of times in the Tenach, for example in Psalm 137, when Jews sat down by the "rivers of Babylon" and "wept" for their beloved city. Here the Babylonians destroyed the temple built by King Solomon (585 B.C.) and later the Romans razed the second temple built by Herod (70 A.D.) 
"How shall we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land?
If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill! If I do not remember you, let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth -- If I do not exalt Jerusalem above my chief joy
." (Psalm 137:4-6)
Today, the Palestinian Authority says it will establish the capital of its future state in the parts of the city that were under Jordanian occupation from 1948 to 1967. Israeli Jews, who refer to Jerusalem as "the eternal, undivided capital of Israel," say it will never happen.
The secular media often describes the reuniting of Jerusalem under Jewish sovereignty, which took place almost by "fluke" in the Six Day War, as if Israel did something wrong by "capturing" Jerusalem.
Much has been written about that too. When Jordan ignored Israel's plea not to enter the war, the battle for Jerusalem ensued. It seems God may have had a different plan.
Audio recordings and the well-known photograph by Israeli photojournalist David Rubinger capture the ecstasy that resounded throughout Jerusalem when Israeli troops made their way to the Kotel (Western Wall) on that infamous day in history.
From that point forward, Israel began to restore and rebuild what the Jordanians destroyed. Barbed wire barriers dividing the city's streets were removed. Jews cleaned up the garbage-strewn area in front of the Kotel, relocating the squatters who were living there.
They began rebuilding and restoring the synagogues in the Old City demolished by the Jordanians.
Jerusalem has come a long way since then, but there is still a lot of refurbishing and rebuilding going on, both in Jewish and Arab neighborhoods.
It's not an easy task, but the municipal government, headed by Mayor Nir Barkat, and the national government, headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, are both determined to make the city all it can be for all its residents and for the tens of thousands of visitors who come every year.

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Israel Commemorates "Jerusalem Day," Celebrating the Unification of Jerusalem in 1967

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


Posted: 26 May 2014 
Paratroopers at the Western Wall, 1967 
(Israel Government Press Office)

David Rubinger's iconic 1967 picture of Israeli paratroopers at the Western Wall is one of the most famous pictures in modern Jewish history.

The photo was taken just hours after the Israel Defense Forces captured Jerusalem's Old City during the Six-Day War after the Jordanian army fired on the Jewish half of the city.

Israel Daily Picture has discovered that the Western Wall has been a magnet for Jewish soldiers over the last century.

We present these pictures for "Yom Yerushalayim" which begins Tuesday evening. 

Austrian Jewish soldiers at the Western Wall.  The Austrian and German armies were allied with
the Turkish army  during World War I, 1915 (Harvard Library/Central Zionist Archives). The 
photographer, Ya'akov Ben-Dov, moved to Palestine from Kiev in 1907. He was drafted into 
the Ottoman army during World War I and served as a photographer in Jerusalem

Jewish soldiers from the British Army after the capture of Jerusalem in December 1917 (Wikipedia)
 
Two British soldiers, presumably Jewish, at the Western Wall during a
major snow storm in 1921 (Library of Congress)