Exhibit on the Backdrop of the Gaza War The Bread and Roses art sale opened its third annual exhibit on January 10, 2009, the 15th day of the Gaza War, at the initiative of the Workers Advice Center (WAC-MA’AN). The…
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Unconquered: Illegal Palestinian Workers in Israel
One day in 2005, Jonathan Ben Efrat of Video48 noticed Palestinian laborers waiting for jobs at a busy junction on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. Stopping to talk, he learned that they were shabahim, illegal sojourners. To get around the checkpoints…
1948 Haunts the Haifa Art Museum
DR. RONA SELA, curator of the Haifa City Museum, is known for her public courage. As a research historian in photography, she has launched exhibits and written catalogues for museums in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Herzliya and elsewhere, as well as…
Artists and Workers Meet in Kufr Qara
In “BREAD AND ROSES,” a September art exhibit, the participating Arab and Jewish artists contributed 75% of their sales ($24,750 of $33,000) to a project called “Women and Work.” This is jointly run by the Workers Advice Center (WAC), Sindyanna…
Bread and Roses in Tel Aviv
AN EXHIBIT CALLED “Bread and Roses,” held on Saturday, September 16, 2006, at the Minshar Gallery in Tel Aviv, assembled works by 180 Jewish and Arab artists in Israel. The name derives from a famous labor struggle in 1912, when…
Curiosity as a Key to Change
WHAT HAPPENS to the sun after it sets? How many stars are there? How are mountains formed? These were the kinds of questions asked by both children and camp leaders during the joint Hanitzotz Publishing House and WAC summer camp…
Art Sale for the Baqa Center
THE Baqa Center in Jaffa, a project of Hanitzotz Publishing House, has been operating for nine years. On Christmas Day 2004 it hosted one of those rare events that joins the global north with the global south, here epitomized as…
Arab Artists in Israel Await No Favors
THE art scene is gathering momentum among Arabs in Israel. The rule used to be that the Arab artist would have to go outside his village to exhibit – or even live outside it in order to survive as an…
Breaking Walls
BREAKING WALLS, a documentary written and directed by Jonathan Ben Efrat, opens with a scene of deceptive tranquility. In the early morning hush, Mus’ab Salameh prepares himself for the day’s work, kisses his sleeping child and steps into the pre-dawn…