Foto Friday – Israel Hadari’s Best & Brightest

March 4, 2011 - 4:35 PM by · 1 Comment
Filed under: Art, Business, coexistence, education, Foto Friday, General, History and Culture, Israeliness, Life, Politics, Profiles, Science, Technology 

Israel Hadari is a 25-year veteran of Israeli photojournalism who has covered Israel’s private, public and government sectors, as well as the business and finance community.

He’s worked with visiting business, cultural and political leaders such as Bill and Hillary Clinton, Sir Paul McCartney, Steve Ballmer and many others, and served as the official campaign photographer for the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and for former Prime Minister and current Defense Minister Ehud Barak.

Following visitors also gives Hadari the chance to see cutting edge tech close up, like this delegation from Africa visiting the seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant at Palmachim.

Among Hadari’s corporate clients: the local branches of multinationals such as Intel, IBM, Google as well as leading Israeli high-tech companies, photographing official portraits and corporate events. This also affords him the opportunity to capture images of corporate social responsibility (CSR); those moments when big business puts the community at the forefront.

Intel was one of the first companies in Israel to implement and encourage socially responsible activities, such as running educational programs for outstanding high-schoolers. It consistently ranks high on the MAALA Index, the local organization promoting CSR.

Hadari snapped this image of a group of Arab and Jewish teens visiting the Intel plant in Kiryat Gat.

Fuel company Dor Alon is also involved in sponsoring educational activities, including the Philharmonic Orchestra Scholarship Fund which grants scholarships to musically gifted children from low-income areas. One sunny day, Hadari was invited to photograph their bike race to promote green energy.

And sometimes, his work is a chance to photograph the local tech community celebrate its success, like fire-dancing at the Deloitte Fast 50 Israel.

More of Hadari’s work, including some rare candids of Yitzhak Rabin and many others, can be found on his website and Facebook page.

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ISRAEL21c takes CNN World Report on a trip to Lod

March 15, 2009 - 2:09 PM by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: General, Israeliness, Life, Politics 

With so much of the media focused on the conflict, the ISRAEL21c feature stories airing on CNN — like this one by Molly Livingstone about a multi-ethnic, multi-religious effort to redevelop the city of Lod — are beacons of hope and progress from a place often seen only as a place of conflict.

More ISRAEL21c stories will likely be seen on CNN in the future – meanwhile, there are dozens of others to view and enjoy at the ISRAEL21c YouTube channel.

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