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Tal Niv is the editor of Haaretz English Edition Magazine. A columnist and regular contributor to the Haaretz Books supplement, Niv joined the paper in 1991 and has been editing the magazine since 1998.

 

Niv was raised on Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov in the Jordan Valley, studied comparative literature at Tel Aviv University and has taught creative writing at the Camera Obscura film school.

Her experiences on the kibbutz in the 1980s were the topic of a year-long column, soon to be expanded into a book. She and her family live in Tel Aviv.
 

Latest Articles by Tal Niv
“Eliot Porter in New York, 1957”
Snapshot: Who is this man and why is he visiting Ellen Auerbach in 1957?

This photograph will be displayed at the Israel Museum as part of the exhibition, 'Displaced Visions: Émigré Photographers of the 20th Century.'

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Eviatar Borovsky funeral
Snapshot: Between a funeral and an outpost

This brilliant, doleful photograph by Nir Elias was taken at the funeral of Eviatar Borovsky, a father of five from the settlement of Yitzhar who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian.

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  • Israeli settlers split over local IDF commander's West Bank policies
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Méret Oppenheim in Man Ray’s “Eroticism Veiled,” 1933
Snapshot: Ceremony of innocence

In this 1933 photograph by Ray Man, we can only imagine the fraudulence posturing as joint creation between artist Ray and the 20-year-old Swiss woman who was influenced by Jung’s ideas

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Murder scene, Ashkelon
Snapshot: Not your regular murder scene

This photograph by Ilan Assayag was taken after a security guard shot dead his mother's caregiver.

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“The poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1924”
Snapshot: A portrait of the writer of the most famous suicide note ever

The photograph of Vladimir Mayakovsky is part of an exhibition of Russian photography at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

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An image from 'Visa,' a series by David Dector in the 'Frames of Reality' exhibition.
Snapshot: Russian immigrants at home, a homage to Cartier-Bresson

This photograph by David Dector is part of the 'Frames of Reality' exhibition at the Peres Center for Peace.

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  • The million Russians that changed Israel to its core
Ofer Shelah and Yair Lapid in the Knesset chamber ahead of Naftali Bennett’s maiden speech.
Snapshot: Friends, Romans and Yair Lapid

Ofer Shelach, from Yair Lapid's inner circle, kneels down in the Knesset chamber ahead of Naftali Bennett's maiden speech.

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  • Lapid's financial gamble
Palestinians after inhaling tear gas.
Snapshot: After the tear gas

This photograph shows Palestinians after inhaling tear gas outside the Ofer military prison near Ramallah, February 21, 2013.

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Soldiers from the co-ed Caracal Battalion.
Snapshot: Is that an IDF soldier or Alice Cooper?

In the past decade, soldiers have been the subject of endless observation in Israeli photography – usually with their peers or when confronting others.

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Beit Hanina
Snapshot: Home from (demolished) home

It is neither Isaac nor Samson nor Ashurbanipal who is seen in this AP picture; it is a Palestinian boy crying out to the heavens.

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Bennett -  Olivier Fitoussi
Snapshot: What Naftali Bennett's dimple can't hide

The ingratiating, self-conscious grin adopted by the Bayit Hayehudi head is a mask.

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Snapshot - Shas - Reuters
Snapshot: Pilgrimage meets politics

There is more to this photograph than the cynicism of the Shas election campaign; it is also rife with disparities between banality and festivity, and between wealth and poverty.

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Snapshot - Avi Ohayon \ GPO
Snapshot: Snow joke at the Netanyahu residence

This family portrait is deficient; it is occupied with Netanyahu himself, who in all his images seems to be sucking in all the air around him.

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Esh Kosesh - AFP
Snapshot: Foul play in the West Bank fields

In this AFP photograph, a settler woman and her child from Esh Kodesh try to prevent Palestinians from plowing a field.

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Snapshot: Sleeping like the dead at a checkpoint into Israel

This photograph by Atta Awisat shows a vulnerable moment in the life of a Palestinian worker.

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Demonstrators in support of the Palestinian bid to become a nonmember observer state at the UN
Snapshot: Every dog has its day (at a pro-Palestine demo)

In this photograph, it's the number 67 that sends our thoughts back to that wrinkle in time and to a boundary line which can barely be drawn.

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Snapshot - November 22, 2012 - AP
Snapshot: The IDF's Colgate moment

Operation Pillar of Defense gave a powerful boost to the ethos of the Israeli soldier: Young, dedicated, idealistic – and with snow white teeth.

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David Bachar - November 17
Snapshot: After the Grad

David Bachar's photograph projects a feeling of randomness, generated by the chance gathering of these particular people at this particular place.

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Barzilai Medical Center - AFP
Snapshot: Taking cover from rocket fire

What is there in this photograph of people running for shelter that prompted two newspapers to run it on their front page?

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Snapshot, November 2
Snapshot: (Palestinian) Girl, interrupted

Everything is inverted in this sad, wrenching photograph taken by AP's Majdi Mohammed on November 2.

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Udi and Ariela's engagement party
Snapshot: Love and hope at a laundromat in Tel Aviv

The guests at Udi and Ariela's engagement party aren't into making ironic statements about their sense of fashion.

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Ehud Barak and his wife, Nili Priell
Snapshot: Ehud Barak, disarmed

Defense Minister Ehud Barak has certainly managed to embroil himself plenty in his life, but the way it looks here, he has also been able to love.

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Edward - AFP
Snapshot: Betting on Edward, the right horse

The horse appears in Israeli photography as a creature of legend and a symbol, surpassingly beautiful

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IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery
Snapshot: The chief of staff, behind the smile

IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz at the state memorial ceremony for soldiers who fell in the Yom Kippur War.

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Iham Kadur and Hakim Kayouf in a photo by an unknown photographer, posted on Facebook on July 9
Snapshot: A Facebook photo that raises questions about a mysterious death

No matter how long you stare at this picture of the young Druze couple, which was posted on Facebook on July 9, it’s impossible to know just what happened in the forest on September 15.

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Any sane Israeli should vote

Voting in the election is a mature act. It's impossible to give up on the attempt to achieve justice and equality, decency and order. It's impossible to treat voting as a failure or a hollow act.

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After Zionism, into the void

This summer was the toughest summer Israel has known, apart from wartime. Because the Zionist project - in its secular, liberal, civil and egalitarian form - failed.

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A damsel in distress

A disturbing emotional reality has been revealed in which Sara Netanyahu fails to take responsibility for her own actions, while at the same time unleashing her own thuggish legal assault on her housekeeper.

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Should Israeli scientists be more revered than religious scholars?

What yeshiva student, even a hesder yeshiva student, wouldn't want to feel as if his religious studies are just as important and appreciated as the physics studied by Dan Shechtman?

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