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We'll now take a look at what's going on in Israel through the eyes of a camera.
Israel has been in the political spotlight since its last legislative election.
The political scrutiny shed light on the country's current social welfare system.
Even in Israel, people are marginalized and excluded from society.
Photographer Pierre Terdjman wanted to give these people a voice.
Here are images of what he captured while he was there.
Ben Gurion once said that Israel will be like any other country once it gets its prostitutes and thugs.
My name is Pierre Terdjman and I'm a photojournalist for the Cosmos Agency.
I wanted to visit Lod, a town near Tel Aviv,
because it's known to have the worst reputation in Israel.
It's a town where gangsters have always lived and where families of gangsters have implanted themselves.
It was a major hub for *** and *** in the 1990s and early 2000s.
What struck me was the architectural resemblance to certain public housing complexes in Europe.
That is, dilapidated buildings and a lack of access to municipal services.
And a lack of response from the local government on activities going on in the public housing complexes.
Smokers who sit on the benches outside and smoke hashish.
Petty crime and delinquency are rife in buildings that are degrading.
There's an extraordinary 'melting pot' of sorts among the inhabitants of this area
There are Ethiopians, Russians, Israeli Arabs, the religious and non-religious - a little bit of everything.
In the end, these are communities living within a society
where they don't mix with each other.
I met Ibrahim who's an Israeli Arab and who
distributes food to Jewish and Israeli Arab families living in Lod.
I asked him: "How can Israelis integrate Arabs in their society
when they don't even take care of their own?"
There was a protest with about one million people participating
and saying 'Stop. We're tired of being treated like donkeys'.
'You're cutting social welfare programs, but increasing the defense budget.'
'Stop scaring us with the army. We feel that security is good.'
Netanyahu is creating fear by inciting the possibility of war with Iran or with the Palestinians.
People realize he's doing this to maintain power.
And because of these protests,
I think people were more willing to talk to me and show me around.
I met Bella through a contact I had at Tel Aviv's city hall.
I spent several days with her without photographing her.
I met her children and explained to her what I wanted to do.
Little by little, she allowed herself to be photographed.
But it's also stepping into the personal lives of people,
and it can become complicated because
it's not like the extreme poverty or misery that we see in Africa or South America.
This is economic insecurity over a long period of time.
I wanted to show her hanging her laundry over the gas grill because there's no kitchen.
I wanted to show how the children sleep in a confined space,
but I didn't want to come across as 'voyeuristic' in my approach.
Bella is representative of people who suffer directly because of Netanyahu's economic policies of the last 5-6 years,
when he was Finance Minister of Prime Minister.
She's fighting alone and dealing with a physically abusive husband.
And she has three children; one is autistic and one is deaf.
All she gets from the state is 200 Euros per month.
Even as recent as 12 years ago, it was an uncommon thing to come across poor people in Israel.
People who live on the streets, beg for money, and who are drug addicts or alcoholics.
This is something that developed when Jews arrived from the east in the late 1990s and in the 2000s.
Today they have unfortunately invaded the large cities, like Jerusalem, Netanya, and Tel Aviv.
You see it more and more.
Here is a photo of a man with a skull-cap begging for money on the street.
This is representative of a new phenomenon in Israel.
This is a reality because more and more people are living on the streets.
I came upon this underground parking garage.
It's located under a commercial center where 500 people get food each week.
Older people can get free haircuts if they don't have money to go to a salon.
Or, they can get clothing.
It's strange because you can sense that these people are being hidden.
They come here, but they're ashamed.
This image gives the sense of being underground, of seeing something taboo, of coming and going like nothing's wrong.
What's striking is that you see everyone: Ethiopians, Russians, Israelis, Israeli Arabs.
Sometimes Israeli soldiers come volunteer to distribute food.
Part of the cost of distributing food is covered by the commercial center.
So it's really a type of community solidarity
that's not managed by the state.
The state is trying to stop this and the image it sends,
by trying to control the associations that help these people.
I volunteered for 15 days in a shelter serving soup to the drug-addicted prostitutes I met.
But I didn't photograph them because I wanted to earn their trust and they didn't want to be photographed.
Which I understand because of their situation.
Little by little, Eden opened up to me.
We talked and I followed her around.
I was able to capture her daily life even if I couldn't photograph everything.
And also show her story, which was quite revealing.
She came to Israel as a young girl, the daughter of a Black father and Jewish-American mother.
She came to get married, but then became a drug addict two years after.
She uses *** and sells herself for 10 Euros.
She died two years later.
I photographed her on and off over several months and
I looked for her when I came back to Israel after a trip to France.
But I was never able to find her.
The majority of people I meet didn't talk to me about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Even the Israeli Arabs didn't talk to me about it.
For them, the conflict is far away.
People say that their war is in their homes trying to fight for survival.
Even 10 years ago, people might have said the conflict was the Palestinians' fault,
because the conflict is with them.
Now, people say the conflict is the Israeli government's fault, that they're being taken for fools,
and that the conflict serves only those with a financial stake in keeping it going.
In Israel, we've managed to make grass grow in the desert,
but we haven't managed to integrate 500,000 immigrants.
Rabin said that Israel will be able to succeed at the impossible, but fail at what's possible.
This quote is something that perfectly describes current Israeli society.
That's the end of this show. Thank you for watching.
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