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.

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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.



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