Purim Stock photography

Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people in the ancient Persian Empire from destruction in the wake of a plot by Haman, a story recorded in the Biblical Book of Esther. Where the uncle (Mordechai) pimped out his niece (Esther) to the king so she could sweet talk him while having sex

Having said that, it is the most enjoyable and fun Jewish holiday celebrated by both children and adults. Traditionally the costumes where characters from the story, but today it is a free for all dress-up parade

Israeli Musicians Shalom Hanoch

Shalom Hanoch (born September 1, 1946) is an Israeli rock singer, musician, lyricist and composer.

He is considered to be the father of Israeli rock and the most important artist of that area. His works have profoundly influenced Israeli rock and modern Israeli music. His collaboration with Arik Einstein produced some of the first Israeli rock albums. He is called the king of Israeli rock.

Shalom Hanoch was born in Kibbutz Mishmarot. As a child his musical talent was known in the kibbutz, and until he discovered Rock music, he listened to a wide variety of genres (from Classical, through Russian folk music, Gospel, and Blues).

After getting his first Jazz guitar when he was around 12 years old, Hanoch began composing his own songs. By the age of 14 he had completed his first song – Laila (Night). Along with another member of the Kibbutz, Meir Ariel, he wrote more songs, and joined the Kibbutz's band – HaMishmaron. Songs from that time include Agadat Deshe (Grass Legend), Nisa LaYam (We'll Go To The Beach), Risim (Eyelashes) and Yom Acharon (Last Day). At 16, he took acting classes at Beit Tzvi arts school.

Although at that point he was more interesting in acting than in creating music, Hanoch was recruited by the Nahal army troupe when he turned 18, and wrote a few songs for the troupe while in the service. He was demobilized in 1968, but not before he had participated in a recording of the best-of album made of re-recorded versions to 1950s and 1960s hits by the troupe called Kol HaKavod LaNahal (Well Done, Nahal). In this album Hanoch sang Mitria Bishnaim along with the troupe's star, Shula Chen. The two were mentioned on the cover, an innovation for army band recordings.

Source - wikipedia




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The Israeli Heavy Metal Music scene

Salem is an Israeli extreme metal band, pioneers of the oriental metal movement and of the Israeli heavy metal scene in general. Much of their lyrics and music deals with political issues concerning the Jewish people and Israel, most notably the concept albums Kaddish (1994) and Collective Demise (2002).



Bartholomeus Night an Israeli Black Metal band


Other Heavy metal Images





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Israeli Musicians

And This time Shlomo Bar



Shlomo Bar is an Israeli musician, composer, and social activist. He is a pioneer of ethnic music in Israel.

Born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1943, Bar emigrated to Israel a few years later. He learnt how to play the darbuka and other ethnic percussion instruments, performing in various small lineups and as a backing musician for artists such as Matti Caspi on tours. In 1976 he played in Yehoshua Sobol and Noa Chelton's Kriza (Nerves), a fierce play about social injustices and discrimination in Israel. Bar set to music and performed several of Sobol's songs, including "Yeladim Ze Simcha" (Children are joy), which protested a then-prevalent policy of economic discrimination. The song, as recorded a bit later by his band, "Habrera Hativit", received airplay because of the catchy tune, and was accepted at face-value by much of the Mizrachi community. Rita's cover is well-known, and lacks the acidity of the original. Bar has stated on numerous occasions that if the people chose to interpret it as a joyous song, he has no business to tell them otherwise.

As a result of the play, Bar decided it was time to form his own group, "Habrera Hativit" (The natural selection, but also known in English as the Gathering), which he formed with bassist and producer Yisrael Borochov. The original lineup was Samson Kehimkar, an Indian violin and sitar virtuoso, Miguel Herstein, an American guitarist, the bassist Yisrael Borochov, and Bar on percussion and vocals. Yisrael Borochov had a stark influence on the sound of the group, and before he left had arranged, recorded and produced the first two albums of the band. Disagreements over where the direction of the band was going led him to split from Bar and to form the East West Ensemble.

From the start the intention was not to conform to the musical mould, neither of Israeli pop, nor of 'musikat kassetot', the common style of mizrachi music at the time. The first album, "Elei Shorashim" (Origins, or a Return to Roots), combined traditional Moroccan and Yiddish music, with Indian elements and motifs, as well as new renditions of songs by Israeli poets. The songs were long, some of them running for eight minutes, and the subject matter was unusual for the time.

The lineup went through several changes in the 1980s and 90s.

Bar's musical influences are broad, including Bob Dylan and Miles Davis on the one hand, and classical Indian music and Jewish liturgy on the other.

(Source Wikipedia)


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Israeli food stock photography

Israeli food is influenced mostly from the regional local foods

Hummus stock image
צילום של צלחת חומוס


Felafal or Falafel
פלאפל


And the world famous Israeli breakfast stock image
ארוחת בוקר ישראלית


Israeli Food Stock photo slide show

Israeli and Jewish Food - Images by photostock-israel .
מאגר תמונות של אוכל ישראלי

PhotoStock-Israel - We specialize in images of Israel and Israeli stock photography. But not only

Collage of Israel Images

A sample of our collages of Israel Images by topic

Israel and Holyland stock photography



Collage of Tel Aviv Stock photography



Collage of Jaffa stock photography


Collage of Jerusalem stock photography


Twelve Tribes of Israel


Feel free to contact us with any and all your stock photo needs
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Soldier's Memorial Day

No More War No More Bloodshed,
In memory of all the victims of wars and conflicts



Tonight starts the Israeli Soldier Memorial Day for Israeli victims of violence
Tomorrow nights we celebrate the 62nd Independence day (1948 - 2010)

Paratroopers




Israeli Flag

Request for Israeli Palestinian cooperation images

A customer contacted me last week with a request for images of Israeli and Palestinian cooperation.
My first thought was no problem I have a couple in our archive

The client wanted more, again, no problem I will send out a request to our contributing photographers.
Silence. Picked up the phone to a few photographers I know who shoot the Israeli Palestinian conflict for a living. The answer I got from all was "strange, but all I have is the bad side of our mutual life"
Strange and sad indeed
Eventually I received some images from Dafna Tal (thank you Dafna)




So there is still hope for our region
Optimistic as always
Ilan Rosen
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Eilat, Israel stock photography

Winter is here so I think it is a good time to talk about Eilat with a selection of our Eilat stock photographs from our archives at www.PhotoStock-Israel.com

Eilat is Israel's southernmost city, a busy port as well as a popular resort, located at the northern tip of the Red Sea, on the Gulf of Eilat. The city is part of the Southern Negev Desert, at the southern end of the Arava. The city is adjacent to the Egyptian village of Taba to the south, the Jordanian port city of Aqaba to the east, and within sight of Saudi Arabia to the south-east, across the gulf.

Eilat's arid desert climate is moderated by proximity to a warm sea. Temperatures often exceed 40 °C (104 °F) in summer, and 18 °C (64 °F) in winter, while water temperatures range between 20 and 26 °C (68 and 79 °F). The city's beaches, nightlife and desert landscapes make it a popular destination for domestic and international tourism.

Eilat is well known for it's underwater marine life


Timna - Solomon's mines are close




Eilat stock photographs - Images by photostock-israel .

Enjoy your winter vacation
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Agriculture stock photography

Israel is best known for a few thinks: mainly Religion, Military, and my favorite by far Agriculture

As religion stock photography was covered in a previous post And military stock photography will be covered in a future post with an emphasis on unique stock images of The Israeli Air Force IAF. In this post I wold like to talk a bit about Agriculture technology, methods, pest control, and more

We have quite an extensive collection of stock images of modern agriculture photography in our archives including
fisheries

Irrigation methods

Dessert Farming stock photography


We also have images from other countries mainly Midwest USA and from primitive agricultural methods from Asia and Africa

As always, your comments are most welcome

following is a slide show of a small selection of our agriculture images
Feel free to copy the slideshow code and embed in your own website
Enjoy
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Agriculture - Images by photostock-israel .

First post - Goals and Ideas I have for future posts

Hi All

Being my first post I am actually trying this out for size
I have a few ideas I would like to share on this blog in future posts but for now I am just checking it out

I am a stock photographer or personal site but my main source of income is from managing the Israeli stock Agency PhotoStock-Israel.com based in Tel Aviv, Israel

We started off with 4 photographers 5 years ago now we represent 60 local talent and our archive has grown to 27,000 images







Slideshow 0906 Summer vacation - Images by photostock-israel .

For my next posts I plan to talk about some of the images or topics we have on file. Some photography business related issues. And other topics that hit my fancy at the time. Also I am open to suggestions from readers and would love to answer any question you may that I CAN
answer

Have a great year 5770
Ilan