Laura Ben-David is an Israeli photographer.
Laura Ben-David
By Laura Ben-David
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Opinion Instead of dancing with the Torah, we are under attack
The entire country of Israel is waiting, unsure of what happens next
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Opinion The murder of two sisters shattered Israel. The words of their father gave us hope
In Israel, each terror attack is horrifying on a human level, but also on a completely personal one
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Opinion I have loved ones in Neve Yaakov. The synagogue attack is a reminder that the road to peace is long
After a shooter attacked congregants leaving an east Jerusalem synagogue, I spent an agonizing Shabbat wondering if my family was okay
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Opinion I was hired to photograph a bar mitzvah at the Kotel. It was disrupted by Haredi protestors
Bar mitzvah attendees were violently harassed by dozens of Haredim, despite holding the ceremony in the egalitarian section
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Opinion Even in Israel, you’re never prepared for a terror attack
Over the last few months, there have been a wave of deadly terror attacks around the country. Even so, I was not prepared for it to happen in my peaceful town.
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Opinion On a bridge near Abu Gosh, Arabs and Jews showed me a better way
“We can be together,” the flyer said. Jews and Arabs. And we were. At 6 p.m. on Thursday, dozens gathered on a bridge outside Abu Gosh, a town on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway, wearing jeans and T-shirts, dancing and singing, holding up their hopeful signs. “The solution to racism is cooperation between Jews and Arabs,”…
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