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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 531

David Rubinger

The iconic Rubinger photo of three paratroopers standing at the recaptured Western Wall in June 1967. From left: Tzion Karasenti, Yitzhak Yifat and Chaim Oshri (David Rubinger/GPO)
February 11, 2024, 7:57 pm
Solomonic ruling: 2 paratroopers can claim single spot in iconic Six Day War image
The leftmost soldier in the 1967 photo of paratroopers at the Western Wall has been identified as both Zion Karasenti and Abraham Bornstein; a Tel Aviv court upholds both claims
By Jeremy Sharon
In top photo, from left: Tzion Karasenti, Yitzhak Yifat and Chaim Oshri standing on the Tel Aviv University campus in Ramat Aviv, Israel, May 7, 2017. They were featured in the iconic photo by David Rubinger after the Six-Day War in 1967. (Andrew Tobin/David Rubinger/GPO)
May 10, 2017, 4:22 am
On US tour, Israeli paratroopers to re-create iconic photo from Six Day War
The men, now in their 70s, will pose for recreation of defining image from 1967, for 50th anniversary of war
By Andrew Tobin
From L to R, Haim Oshri, Dr. Itzik Yifat and Zion Karasenti stand in front of the Western Wall in April 2017, 50 years after the three former paratroopers were resonantly photographed at the holy site by David Rubinger immediately after its capture in the Six Day War. (screen capture: Channel 2)
April 29, 2017, 10:57 am
50 years later, 3 soldiers reenact, remember their iconic Six-Day war photo
Picture of paratroopers Zion Karasenti, Haim Oshri, and Itzik Yifat has become defining image of Israel regaining Western Wall; they’re still friends and they still argue
By ToI Staff
Labor Party leader Shelly Yachimovich and fellow party member Eitan Cabel attend a meeting at the Knesset in 2013. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 3, 2017, 2:03 pm
Laboring over a deal
The Hebrew-language media targets Eitan Cabel and Shelly Yachimovich, after a recording apparently revealed the two had been engaged in shady political agreements
By Adiv Sterman
Joe Hyams
March 2, 2017, 7:10 pm
Joe Hyams
Rubinger’s moment: A lesson in time
The acclaimed photographer taught him to keep an eye on the edges of a frame, and never to cut off hands or heads
David Rubinger in 2013; the famed photojournalist died Wednesday, March 1, at age 92 (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)
March 2, 2017, 6:35 pm
David Rubinger: 12 iconic photos of Israel
The career of Israel’s national photographer spanned decades; here are some historic moments he captured on film
By ToI Staff
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (R) with the late David Rubinger at an exhibition of the latter‘s photographs at the Knesset (Photo by Itzak Harari)
March 2, 2017, 12:12 pm
Photographer David Rubinger remembered as Israel’s ‘greatest documenter’
President, Knesset speaker praise iconic journalist after death at age 92; ‘some write pages of history, others illustrate them through a camera lens,‘ says Rivlin
By Sue Surkes
David Rubinger in 2013; the famed photojournalist died Wednesday, March 1, at age 92 (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)
March 2, 2017, 11:31 am
David Rubinger, photographer of the nation, dies at 92
The iconic photojournalist, a Viennese gentleman who always had a camera in hand, immortalized modern Israel’s history and enjoyed unique access to its leaders
By Jessica Steinberg
Yitzhak Shamir, former prime minister, pictured in 1986 on a bus from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
May 18, 2013, 6:21 pm
Grounded: When Shamir slept on the floor of the plane
In striking contrast to Netanyahu’s costly double-bed flight demands, another Likud leader once spent the night beneath the seats en route to Australia
By ToI Staff
Menachem Begin sleeping on the way to the United States in this undated archive photo. (photo credit: David Rubinger/Yedioth Ahronoth)
May 13, 2013, 1:52 pm
Will the real PM please rest up?
Old-school prime minister Menachem Begin didn’t need no double bed, unlike Netanyahu
By Gavriel Fiske
David Rubinger, a JerusaLENS contest mentor, photographs the Women of the Wall in the same pose as his famous 1967 paratrooper pictures (Oren Nahshon/Flash90)
August 9, 2012, 2:42 pm
Women’s group ‘liberates’ the Western Wall
Photographer David Rubinger, who immortalized paratroopers reaching the Wall in the 1967 war, recreates iconic image with female trio holding a Torah scroll
By Aaron Kalman
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