Robert Capa: Israel 1948-1950 Between the years 1948 and 1950, photojournalist Robert Capa documented events related to Israel's War of Independence, the subsequent waves of immigration to Israel, and the immigrants' transit camps – as well as historic moments such as the ceremony of the declaration of the State of Israel. Despite Capa’s fame as a photographer of wars, these pictures is marked by immediacy, warmth, and intimacy with his subject, perhaps because he himself, having fled Hungary for Berlin and Paris, was a symbol of the wandering, driven and desperate Jewish Diaspora.

2. ISRAEL. Jerusalem. 1949. Man carrying a wooden beam over his shoulder.

3. Israel through the lens of Robert Capa

5. Haïfa. May-June 1949. The arrival of thousands of immigrants from Eastern Europe, Turkey and Tunisia.

7. European immigrants gathered on the railing of a boat arriving in port, Haifa, Israel

9. ISRAEL. Haifa. 1949-50. Arriving immigrants.

11. ISRAEL. Near Haifa. 1950. Child at the Sha'arHa'aliya transit camp for new immigrants

12. Robert Capa: Israel 1948-1950
Between the years 1948 and 1950, photojournalist Robert Capa documented events related to Israel's War of Independence,
the subsequent waves of immigration to Israel, and the immigrants' transit camps – as well as historic moments such as the
ceremony of the declaration of the State of Israel.
Despite Capa’s fame as a photographer of wars, these pictures is marked by immediacy, warmth, and intimacy with his
subject, perhaps because he himself, having fled Hungary for Berlin and Paris, was a symbol of the wandering, driven and
desperate Jewish Diaspora.

13. Tel-Aviv. May 14th, 1948. Founder of the state of Israel, David Ben-Gurion reads the proclamation that will establish Israel as an independent nation.

14. Tel Aviv, 14th May 1948. Ceremony of the Declaration of the State Of Israel. In the Tel Aviv Museum, Mr David Ben Gurion reads the proclamation establishing Israel as an independent Nation, with members of the National
Council. Above him is the portrait of Theodore Herzl, the spiritual father of Zionism.

15. ISRAEL. Haifa. 14th May 1948. The British High Commissioner General Sir Alan Cunningham leaves eight hours after the Declaration of Independence of the state of Israel.

16. ISRAEL. Celebrations of the new Israeli Armed Forces and flag hoisting ceremony. 1948.

17. May 14th, 1948. Celebrating Israel's independence.

18. Haifa. 1948. The arrival of new immigrants at the port of Haifa.

19. European new immigrants aboard the Theodore Herzl arriving at Haifa harbour.

20. Haïfa. 1949. European immigrants arriving in port.

21. ISRAEL. 1948. Refugees arriving in the harbor of Haifa on board the Theodor Herzl.

22. ISRAEL. Haifa. 1949-1950. New immigrants disembarking from the Theodor Herzl.

23. Haïfa. 1949. The arrival of thousands of immigrants from Eastern Europe, Turkey and Tunisia, in the port of Haifa

24. Haifa. May/June, 1950. Immigrants from Europe arriving to settle in Israel.

25. East European immigrants arriving by boat in the harbour of Haifa. 1950.

26. ISRAEL. 1950. An orthodox Jew with his prayer shawl and a sack of vegetables leaving his village.

27. ISRAEL. 1948. New settlers arriving at a camp near the Hills of Canaan.

28. ISRAEL. Haifa. 1949-1950. Yemeni Jewish girl in a transit camp for new immigrants.

29. Haifa. 1950. Sha'ar Ha'aliyah absorption camp, where immigrants were placed until housing could be found for them.

30. Jerusalem. 11 juin 1948. Mea Shearim district. Hardly 10 minutes after the cease fire, the inhabitants left their shelters after 27 days of gunfire and bombardment, and made their way back to their homes.

31. Galilee. Near Gedera (south of Tel Aviv). November-December, 1950. Village for blind immigrants (victims of trachoma) and their families, founded by a Pole. Three men are led to the community dining hall.

32. Haifa. Sha'ar Ha'aliya Absorption Camp, where immigrants are placed until housing is found for them.

33. ISRAEL. Yemeni Jews. Shaar Aliyah reception center near Haifa. 1950.

34. ISRAEL. Newly arrived immigrant at a reception center near the port of Haifa, where they are given temporarily housing. 1948.

35. Israel. Newly arrived immigrants at the Shaar Aliyah camp and reception center near Haifa.

36. ISRAEL. Jerusalem.

37. ISRAEL. Haifa. After arriving in Israel, immigrants are sent to reception camps, until housing is found for them.

38. Jerusalem. An Orthodox wedding.

39. Shaar Aliya. 1950. Experimental planting near Red Sea to test productivity in arid soil.

40. Galilee. An outdoor school class for immigrant children in the Parod transit camp. 1950.

41. Galilee. Immigrant transit camp.

42. ISRAEL. 1948. The settlement of Jecheam.

43. ISRAEL. Galilee. 1948. Laundry day in a settlement of Kafar Giladi.

44. ISRAEL. 1948. The Beir Ha'arava Kabri kibbutz, settlement in Galilee.

45. Ramle, near Tel Aviv. 1949. A new immigrant selling some items he brought to Israel with him.

46. ISRAEL. Galilee. 1948. Refugees from Bulgaria. Community housework on the kibbutz of Kefar Giladi.

47. ISRAEL. Near Jerusalem. 1949. A French Jewish immigrant planting a vineyard.

48. ISRAEL. 1948.

49. ISRAEL. Tel Aviv. May, 1949. Armon Café, on Hayarkan Street.

50. Tel Aviv. People playing chess on the beachfront of Tel Aviv. On the horizon is the wreck of the Altalena which had tried to disload (illegal entry) immigrants and was attacked by Irgun resistance. 1948.

51. Tel Aviv. A party, the girl dancing is a newly arrived Russian immigrant. 1948

52. Refugees from Hungary try to learn American Jazz, hoping to play eventually in a local cafe in Tel Aviv.

53. ISRAEL. Ain Karin. 1949. A Transylvanian Jew who had spent nine years in Nazi concentration camps.

54. ISRAEL. 1948.

55. ISRAEL. 1948.

56. Tel Aviv, the seafront promenade. 1948

57. ISRAEL. Tel Aviv. 1948.

58. Tel Aviv Beach 1948

59. Tel Aviv. Enjoying the sun along the Tel Aviv sea front.

61. Tel Aviv. Enjoying the sun along the Tel Aviv sea front.

63. All you could do was to help individuals caught up in war, try to raise their spirits for a moment,
perhaps flirt a little, make them laugh; . . . and you could photograph them, to let them know that
somebody cared.
Robert Capa, war photographer and photojournalist

64. Israel through the lens of Robert Capa
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