We’ve received a bunch of entries for the Israel Project’s “Best Shots of Israel” contest. Here are some of our favorites – please keep sending then in!
Eleanor Kilroy sent this one saying, “This was taken of me with an adolescent soldier and local kid by a friend, Benjamin Hovland, January 2010, as a group of soldiers guarded Jewish settlers who were being taken on the weekly Shabbat tour of Hebron/al-Khalil’s old city.”
Hannah Schwarzschild sent the photo on the right to the Israel Project along with the description: “As my entry in The Israel Project’s photo contest, here is my “colorful photo that shows the full variety of daily life in Israel.” The photo dates from February 2008.”
Alisa Solomon sent this: “Here’s my entry: stencil graffiti I noticed in Tel Aviv, January 2009 (caption shows the common expression of refusal, “don’t want, don’t need,” playing on Herzl’s famous Zionist slogan, “If you want it, it is no dream.” )”
Jora Ehrlich sent the photo on the left to the Israel Project with the note, “The most enduring image I have.” Ehrlich took the photo at one of the weekly demos against the wall in the West Bank village of Al-Masara.
The Wall was also a popular theme in the photos we received. Shaina Adams-El Guabli sent the photo below to the Israel Project with the note, “Here is my photo entry for the “Best Shots of Israel” competition. I think it really shows the “full variety of daily life in Israel”; I had so many photos to choose from, but this one really stands out for me. It was taken in May 2005.”
And Nova McGiffert sent this photo on the right with an email saying, “Here is my submission for the photo contest about daily life in Israel!”
Finally here is a submission from Luke Powell with the description “Synagogue in Mea Sharim, Jerusalem, Israel, 1980, ©Leslit Garrett, 2010.”
