by Elad Benari
A new photography exhibition in Hevron documents the history of the first Jewish-owned building in Hevron after the Six-Day War and symbolizes what was called the “re-Jew-vanation” of Hevron.
The photos were taken by famed photographer Gershon Ellinson, known for his photographic chronicles of the renewed Jewish community in Hevron. The exhibit is being shown in the Machpela Visitors' Center, located at the foot of Ma'arat HaMachpela (Cave of the Patriarchs).
Sharon Katz, editor of Voices magazine, saw the exhibit and wrote of it in the magazine’s latest issue. She describes how Ellinson, who had agreed to tell her the story behind the photos, “was surrounded by people looking at his momentous photos and shouting, ‘Hey, that was me,’ and soon became engrossed in conversations with the person actually in the photograph, the person who made history.”
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