Magnum Photos

Book - Israel - A Photobiography 

Micha Bar-Am 

The First Fifty Years.

Published verge of celebrating their 50 years of statehood, this study of the character of Israel and Israeli life features work by the photographer Micha Bar-Am as well as an essay by the author and journalist Thomas L. Friedman.

From the early euphoria of independence, through hard years as Israelis worked to draw life out of the desert land, during the brutal and bitter wars that have marked the course of the last half century, Israel's people and politics have had a tremendous mark on the world. Bar-Am has witnessed the country's rise to its prominent position on the... 

Micha Bar-Am 1980

Flock of a Bedouin shepherd in the Sinai desert. 

Micha Bar-Am 1971

Young Israelis regularly participate in a trek and camping expedition... 

Micha Bar-Am 1967

ISRAEL-PALESTINE. Jerusalem. 1967. Bullet ridden 'Old City' walls.... 

Micha Bar-Am 1997

Hebron 1997, next to the Tomb of the Patriarchs a "security pit"... 

Micha Bar-Am 1979

ISRAEL. Kvutzat Kinneret. 1979. Passover Seder. A Passover 'Seder'... 

Micha Bar-Am 1969

Women soldiers participating in the annual military 4 day march,... 

Micha Bar-Am 1997

The Festival of Hebrew Song,Arad 1997.The annual festival brings... 

Micha Bar-Am 1958

ISRAEL. 1958. On the Road to Sde Boker. 

Micha Bar-Am 1956

ISRAEL. 5th Independence Day celebrations, Haifa 1956
Crowds... 

Micha Bar-Am 1958

ISRAEL. 1958. Newly arrived Romanian immigrants at the port of... 

Micha Bar-Am 1959

New immigrants village at Kiryat Gat. An improvised knife sharpener... 

Micha Bar-Am 1957

Afula. Israel.1957. 

Micha Bar-Am 1958

ISRAEL. 1958. Kfar Saba, Ma'Abara (immigration camp).

Micha Bar-Am 1956

Banana harvesters on Kibbutz Gesher Haziv.1956.Whatever work... 

Micha Bar-Am 1954

ISRAEL. 1954. Kibbutz Degania Bet.
Three native Israelis (Sabra),... 

Micha Bar-Am 1958

The Ma'Abara Immigrant Transit Camp at Azata, in the Negev region... 

Micha Bar-Am 1960

Torah study, Moshav Porat.1960.The parents of these boys immigbrated... 

Micha Bar-Am 1956

Israel 1956. Kibbutz of Gesher Haziz. 

Micha Bar-Am 1955

ISAREL. Army reservists. The prolonged state of no war-no peace... 

Micha Bar-Am 1957

ISRAEL. A Border Guard armed car evacuates workers from the disputed... 

Micha Bar-Am 1956

SINAI. Sinai campaign 1956. The Sinai Campaign, also known as... 

Micha Bar-Am 1957

ISRAEL. Protest against withdrawal from occupied Sinai peninsula.... 

Micha Bar-Am 1960

Jerusalem. 1960. A briefing before setting out for a night ambush... 

Micha Bar-Am 1960

Jerusalem. 1960. Borderline between East and West Jerusalem.... 

Micha Bar-Am 1966

Jerusalem 1966.A child playing on the border between East and... 

Micha Bar-Am 1966

In December 1953 Mr David BEN GURION retired from his public... 

Micha Bar-Am 1960

1960. In response to the shelling of Kibbutz Tel Katzir and neighboring... 

Micha Bar-Am 1966

In December 1953 Mr David BEN GURION retired from his public... 

Micha Bar-Am 1957

ISRAEL. Haifa. 1957. Newly arrived immigrants in the Port of... 

Micha Bar-Am 1981

ISRAEL. Jerusalem, the YAD VASHEM Holocaust Memorial building,... 

Micha Bar-Am 1961

Adolf EICHMANN in his bulletproof booth, during his trial in... 

Micha Bar-Am 1961

Adolf EICHMANN in his bulletproof booth, during his trial in... 

Micha Bar-Am 1961

Adolf EICHMANN in his bulletproof booth, during his trial in... 

Micha Bar-Am 1961

Adolf EICHMANN in his bulletproof booth, during his trial in... 

Micha Bar-Am 1961

Adolf EICHMANN in his bulletproof booth, during his trial in... 

Micha Bar-Am 1974

Tel Aviv, a watermelon vendor along Hashalom Road,near a housing... 

Micha Bar-Am 1967

ISRAEL-PALESTINE. Jerusalem. June 6th 1967. On the second day... 

Micha Bar-Am 1967

ISRAEL-PALESTINE. Jerusalem. 6th June 1967. On the second day... 

Micha Bar-Am 1967

ISRAEL-PALESTINE. Jerusalem, 6th June, 1967.
On the second day... 

Micha Bar-Am 1967

ISRAEL-PALESTINE. Jerusalem 6th June 1967. On the second day... 

Micha Bar-Am 1967

ISRAEL-PALESTINE. The Dung Gate Gate, East Jerusalem. 7th June... 

Micha Bar-Am 1967

ISRAEL-PALESTINE. The Valley of Kidron, Jerusalem. 7th June 1967.... 

Micha Bar-Am 1967

ISRAEL-PALESTINE. The Temple Mount, East Jerusalem, 7th June... 

Micha Bar-Am 1967

ISRAEL. Jerusalem. June, 1967. The Six-Day War. View of the Western... 

Micha Bar-Am 1967

SYRIAN OCCUPIED TERRITORIES. Quneitra, Golan Heights. December... 

Micha Bar-Am 1967

The newly captured areas by the Israeli troops, refugees at... 

Micha Bar-Am 1968

After World War I, the Bridge across the Jordan River linking... 

Micha Bar-Am 1967

WEST BANK. General Moshe DAYAN, Israeli Minister of Defence at... 

Micha Bar-Am 1967

ISRAEL. Kafr al-Labad. December 1967. Chase after terrorists.... 

Micha Bar-Am 1971

Briefing of Israeli army troops in the Judean desert at the conclusion... 

Micha Bar-Am 1969

Between the years 1968 and 1973 the JORDAY VALLEY region was... 

Micha Bar-Am 1970

Prisoners of war taken by the Israeli Army in the Golan Heights... 

Micha Bar-Am 1967

ISRAEL. West Bank. Kafr al-Labad. 1967. Collaborators cover themselves... 

Micha Bar-Am 1967

ISRAEL. West Bank. Kafr al-Labad. December 1967. Chase after... 

Micha Bar-Am 1967

ISRAEL. West Bank. Kafr al-Labad. 1967. After an attack on the... 

Micha Bar-Am 1969

Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers making a house to house search to... 

Micha Bar-Am 1970

Tension at the Syrian border at the Golan Heights continued after... 

Micha Bar-Am 1968

ISRAEL. Kibbutz Masada. 1968. The funeral of three members of... 

Micha Bar-Am 1970

Workers from the Gaza Strip region on their way to work in Israel.CHECKPOINT... 

Micha Bar-Am 1969

GAZA. Gaza Strip 1969. After a shooting incident in the Gaza... 
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