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at the Western Wall, shortly after its recapture by Israeli forces in the Six-Day War. Shot from a low angle, the faces of (left to right) Zion Karasenti, Yitzhak Yifat, and Haim Oshri are framed against the wall. The three of them are framed with their backs toward the wall, gazing off into the
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and into Jordanian territory. The nun was allowed to cross the border only after much negotiation. As Time–Life's primary photographer for the region, Rubinger covered all of Israel's wars and was given unprecedented access to governmental leaders: he was the only photographer allowed in the
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and after visiting quickly with his family, made his way to the wall. The space between the wall and the buildings in front of it was very narrow, so he lay down to get a shot of the wall itself, when the paratroopers walked by and he took several shots of them.
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After the war, he visited his father in England and learned that he had other relatives in Germany. There, he met his cousin Anni and her mother, who had survived the Holocaust. He offered to marry her to secure her emigration to Palestine, but the
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immigrant, with whom he had a relationship for two and a half years, although they never married. Spivak was murdered in her home in 2004 by her former gardener, Mohammad Mahmoud Sabarna, a Palestinian from the
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in North Africa and Europe. While on leave in Paris, a French girlfriend gave him a camera as a gift, and he discovered he enjoyed photography. He took his first professional photo of
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ended up lasting more than 50 years until her death. The couple had two children together. He described his marriage as "tempestuous" and stated in his autobiography
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cafeteria. With the sort of access and exposure that allows the subjects to disregard the photographer's presence, Rubinger was able to take memorable photos of
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in communications for 1997, the first year it was awarded in that category. (His fellow laureate in communications was veteran television broadcaster
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that he had numerous affairs over the years. However, he faithfully cared for her in the last years of her life when she was stricken with cancer.
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as well. Although Rubinger was upset about his work being stolen, the photo's widespread distribution made it famous.
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Upon his return to Mandatory Palestine in 1946, Rubinger opened a photography business in Jerusalem, but broke into
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that had belonged to a patient who had dropped them from a Catholic hospital window over the
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The image engenders such a strong emotional component that it has become an icon of Israel.
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declared in 2001 that the photo had "become the property of the entire nation".
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soldier he had picked up to drive because he was too sleepy. He arrived in the
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distance, and Yifat (centre) holds his helmet in his hand. Israeli author
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Jewish emigrants from Austria after the Anschluss to Mandatory Palestine
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in 1951, where he worked for two years. He then joined the staff of
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calls it "the most beloved Jewish photographic image of our time".
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over to the government, who distributed it to everyone for a mere
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On 5 March 2017, Israel's mass-circulation Hebrew-language daily
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when he heard a rumour that something big was going to happen in
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called Rubinger "the photographer of the nation in the making".
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After Anni's death, Rubinger at age 78 met Ziona Spivak, a
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Prior to taking the photograph, Rubinger had been at
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Israeli photographer and photojournalist (1924–2017)
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Leica Camera
Vienna
Jerusalem
photojournalism
Paratroopers at the Western Wall
Israeli art
Hebrew
photojournalist
photo of three Israeli paratroopers
Western Wall
Six-Day War
Shimon Peres
Vienna
Austria
Nazi Germany
Anschluss
Youth Aliyah
Mandatory Palestine
Jordan Valley
kibbutz
the Holocaust
Jewish Brigade
British Army
Jewish
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United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine
marriage of convenience
Yemenite
West Bank

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