The Story of the digging of a 1,500 year old church and monastery at Ramat Beit Shemesh:
A golden Muslim coin and a Jewish candle found at the Galilee:
A first temple period finds at the old city of Jerusalem:
The Story of the digging of a 1,500 year old church and monastery at Ramat Beit Shemesh:
A golden Muslim coin and a Jewish candle found at the Galilee:
A first temple period finds at the old city of Jerusalem:
My friend and colleague Amnon Houri was assigned by a commercial to film a Cessna skydiver’s plane flying at the height of 3000 feet. Lucky for me he invited me to take part in the flight and to shoot some behind the scenes photos. We took our ride with a Bell Jet Ranger III helicopter, handled with a very steady hand by Dov Peleg.
(Dov stands by the Bell Jet Ranger)
At Habonim beach we grouped with Paradive Skydiver’s Cessna and started climbing to 3000 feet height. On the ground Amnon briefed the Cessna pilot to do three different maneuvers for the film, and once we were way up there in the sky, our nose toward the east and our back to the setting sun, they were done with much talent on behalf of all those involved it the operation. All I had to do is point the camera, take photos and some video footage, and enjoy the magnificent view of our little country shore line.
(Amnon filming the Cessna with his video camera)
Here is 6 min video summarizing the experience from start to end:
Photo Gallery:
On April 2002 I started my photographic journey with Alpha company. The holiday just began and we all had our plans for the free days to come. But after a shocking terrorist attack on Passover eve, the government issued a special order to recruit the reserve units and send them into the Palestinians towns. The military operation was called “Defensive Shield”. My regiment was sent into Bethlehem, where we fought for three weeks. When I had my first chance to take the camera with me I started filming our actions, and I kept doing it for 5 years.
In 2007 I took all the stock of footage and made it into a documentary called “The Alpha Diaries”. This documentary was shown on television channels all over the world, and participated in many film festivals. Now I made a new HD copy of the movie and placed it on YouTube for everybody to watch and to experience how it is to leave everything and become a soldier for one month, every year.
Credits:
Producer: Avi Kleinberger
Director: Yaniv Berman
Editor: Ronit Porat, Gabi Shihor
On-Line: Serg Bezrukoff
Music: Gad Emile Zeitune
Camera: Yaniv Berman
Stills and more video footage: Omri Takoa
Sound Design: Michael Goorevich