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The old Bat Shlomo, the one to the south of the road, is a very small village, just a handful of old houses set among tall trees. Here and there a tractor is parked under an asbestos lean-to. Chickens…
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Amos Oz
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Huldah, Israel
Date:
1982
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I belong to the generation that celebrated its bar mitzvah during the Six-Day War. Then, in 1967, the surging energy of our adolescent hormones was coupled with the intoxication gripping the entire…
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David Grossman
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Mevaseret Zion, Israel
Date:
1987
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On the revolving stage, a shop called Burgermatch, with a sign that reads: “Buy 10 hamburgers, get a free tennis racket.” Next to it, a sports goods store, Our Sports, with a sign saying “Buy…
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Orly Castel-Bloom
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Haifa, Israel
Date:
1994
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Next on our list of “things-to-do-today” was the Ramparts Walk to enable people to walk atop almost the entire circumference of the wall, excepting the area of the Temple Mount and the mosques. This…
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Teddy Kollek, Shulamith Eisner
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1990
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Gradually we learned these things: The government of Sudan could not admit to helping Jews. Sudan, after all, was a friend of the other Arab nations, and there is fighting between Arabs and Jews…
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Sonia Levitin
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Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1987
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Based on an earlier (1992) image with soldiers in mixed media, this painting depicts soldiers in a setting that does not suggest a particular place. Instead, the yellow background with various insects…
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David Wakstein
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1999
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Before I left Chicago, the art critic Harold Rosenberg said to me, “Going to Jerusalem? And wondering whether people will talk freely? You’ve got to be kidding, they’ll talk your head off.” He spoke…
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Saul Bellow
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Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1976
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The northern Negev and the Negev mountain range
Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like watercourse in the Negev
They who sow in tears shall reap with songs of joy
—Psalms 126:4–5
More than half of the…
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Seffi Ben-Yoseph
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1985
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Ninio works in a variety of artistic disciplines, including photography. Here, a structure high in the clouded sky suggests the ability to view the world below.
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Moshe Ninio
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1990
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Rabinovitz’s sculptures are characterized by the use of minimal elements that are granted symbolic meaning through the text or title that accompanies them, commonly taken from the Bible or other…
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Israel Rabinovitz
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1990