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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.

By Tal Niv | May 9, 2013 | 11:37 AM

Israeli settlers split over local IDF commander's West Bank policies
By Chaim Levinson | 22
Mosque vandalized, cars torched in suspected 'price tag' attack
By Jack Khoury and Eli Ashkenazi | 5

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

By Tal Niv | May 2, 2013 | 01:33 PM

Snapshot: Not your regular murder scene

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

By Tal Niv | Apr 18, 2013 | 02:03 PM

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.

By Tal Niv | Apr 6, 2013 | 01:00 PM

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.

By Tal Niv | Mar 21, 2013 | 06:28 PM

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.

By Tal Niv | Mar 7, 2013 | 03:27 PM | 2

Snapshot: After the tear gas

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

By Tal Niv | Feb 28, 2013 | 03:36 PM

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.

By Tal Niv | Feb 23, 2013 | 10:15 AM

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.

By Tal Niv | Feb 16, 2013 | 10:22 AM

Snapshot: What Naftali Bennett's dimple can't hide

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

By Tal Niv | Feb 7, 2013 | 11:37 AM

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.

By Tal Niv | Jan 24, 2013 | 02:31 PM

$Snapshot - Avi Ohayon \ GPO$

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.

By Tal Niv | Jan 18, 2013 | 01:14 PM

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.

By Tal Niv | Jan 10, 2013 | 01:51 PM | 3

Jerusalem & Babylon

Jerusalem and Babylon / Why the Second Battle of Mohammed al-Dura is a lost cause. Just as the first was

By Anshel Pfeffer | 02:04 AM

Anglo File

Inside the clubhouse, a 100 square meter facility run by the Michael Levin Lone Soldier Center

Privately funded clubhouse for lone soldiers to open in Tel Aviv

By Andrew Esensten | 04:54 AM

Pleasure Hunting

Labor movement

In the Hefer Valley, descendants of the pioneer generation and newcomers are going back to manual labor and local production

By Ronit Vered | May 16, 2013 | 02:34 PM

Departures/Arrivals

Departures / Arrivals: Hadas bids farewell to Tel Aviv with a one-way ticket

Rizin is not sure about living in Munich, but getting his German girlfriend to move to Jerusalem is equally challenging.

By Liat Elkayam | May 16, 2013 | 03:17 PM

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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.

By Tal Niv | Dec 15, 2012 | 10:43 AM

The Makings of History

Will we ever find out what the censor left out?

In Tom Segev's final column, he continues to shine a light on missing chapters of Israeli history.

By Tom Segev | Mar 16, 2013 | 10:08 PM | 3

Portion of the Week

A new form of authority / Parashat Nasso

With these words, God praises the Jewish people for its beauty, which is revealed when it displays its desire to voluntarily offer a gift for the Tabernacle.

By Yakov Meir | May 17, 2013 | 12:58 PM

Doron Rosenblum

Plans for the Israeli summer break: Drama? Crisis? War?

A certain uncontrollable inner force commands us to feel the 'bland days' with some form of compelling content.

By Doron Rosenblum | May 16, 2013 | 01:24 PM

Pen Ultimate

Wordplay: Reflections by a 'second-generation, Shoah-lite' Pole

Watching these five 3D minutes, it suddenly dawned on me that it was to that ruined city that my parents returned. There, in Warsaw, they started to build their life anew, a life to which I owe my own.

By Michael Handelzalts | May 10, 2013 | 11:04 AM | 4

The Twilight Zone

'If the settlement of Elon Moreh wasn't here, we'd be living in paradise'

Unknown individuals - probably settlers from the nearby settlement - have started working land that belongs to Azmout, a Palestinian village near Nablus. A protest has been launched.

By Gideon Levy, Alex Levac | May 17, 2013 | 11:21 AM | 3

Sayed Kashua

One last cigarette, then Sayed Kashua will be a better person

'Do you smoke?' was the first question my father-in-law-to-be asked.

By Sayed Kashua | May 16, 2013 | 01:15 PM | 3