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German-born Israeli photojournalist

Micha Bar-Am (Hebrew: מיכה בר-עם; born ) is a German-born Israeli photographer.

Biography

Micha Bar-Am is one of Israel's most senior photographers. For more than sixty years his photographs have played a central role in the construction of Israel's cultural memory, and have presented the country's image to the entire world.

Born in Berlin , Micha Bar-Am arrived with his family in Israel (then Palestine) in , and grew up in Haifa. He worked at the port of Haifa and joined the Palmach Harel Brigade during Israel's War of Independence.

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He was a founding member of Malkia kibbutz on the Lebanese border. In the early s, he participated in archeological expeditions in the Galilee and later in the search for scrolls in the Judean Desert, also, at that time, he began to photograph his surroundings and neighbors. In became a civilian photojournalist for Bamahane magazine, a Hebrew-language weekly magazine published by the Israel