Photography

How an Israeli photography exhibition turns a year of war, protest, and hostage returns into a public record

Inside Jerusalem’s Arab houses, where architecture outlives empires and residents

The Eretz Israel Museum hosts Local Testimony 2025, a moving exhibition of photography documenting war, life, and hope.

The procedure accompanies a recently passed amendment that restricts the photographing and publication of identifying images of suspects held in custody before an indictment is filed.

The group exhibition, "Moshava Zmanit" led by the program's curator and artistic director, Assaf Hinden, is an evolving series of works based on the principle of site-dependent creation

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

The exhibition is part of an ongoing municipal initiative to strengthen Eilat’s contemporary art profile.

"We did not intend to offend Egyptians and did not expect that our actions would be interpreted as indecent behavior in a public place," the detainees said.

Bearing witness after Oct. 7

"We cannot change what has been," the letter goes on, but "[we can] take responsibility" and use the lessons learned to grow stronger."