Credits

Pnina Amit studied literature, philosophy and psychology at
Tel Aviv University. Her first book of poems Sohen Hashai, 1994, ("Secret Agent") received the Tchernichovsky Prize. Her third book, Gahliliot Musica ("Fireflies of Music") will be published in 1999. She works in the Office of the State Comptroller and lives in Tel Aviv.

Aliza Auerbach, born in Haifa in 1940, graduated in philosophy and Bible Studies from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. She began work as a professional photographer in 1972, specializing in portraits, film stills and photojournalism. She has held numerous one-man shows around the world and her work has won wide acclaim. She is the recipient of several international photography prizes, including the 1995 UNESCO photo contest.

Yitzhak Bar-Yosef was born in 1949 in Tel Aviv. He graduated from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem with degrees in Jewish history, theatre studies and comparative literature. He has published six collections of novels and short stories, of which the most recent, "Life Will Be Good To You, Too" was published in 1997. He is a journalist for the Hebrew daily, Yediot Aharonot.

Mordechai Beck, artist, writer, translator and editor, was born in Britain in 1944 and came to Israel in 1973. His fiction has been published in Israel and abroad, and recent works have appeared in Ariel, the Literary Review, Tikkun and Arc.

Martin Biddle is professor of medieval archaeology and is Astor senior research fellow and tutor in archaeology at Hertford College, Oxford. His book, "The Tomb of Christ," will be published in 1999 by Sutton Publishers, UK; a German edition, Das Grab Christi, was published by Brunnen Verlag, Giessen in 1998.

Ramy Ditzanny was born in Tel Aviv in 1950 and graduated from the Technion in electronic engineering. He studied at the London Film School and his poems began to appear in 1982, in the wake of the Lebanon war. The winner of several national literary prizes, including the Prime Ministers prize in 1995, he has written six books of poetry.

David Hambright came to Israel from the USA in 1991. He received his BSc from the University of North Carolina and completed a doctorate at Cornell University. He specializes in the ecology of freshwater plankton and fishes. He is a senior research scientist at the Sea of Galilee Limnological Laboratory, Tiberias.

Michael Pragai, diplomat and writer, came to Palestine in his teens from Germany. A distinguished diplomatic career included assignments as advisor to Israels delegation to the UN and acting head of the Armistice Affairs Division through the Six-Day War in 1967. He headed the Foreign Ministrys Division for Church Affairs from 1974 to 1979 and was director of the Israel Universities Study Group for Middle East Affairs.

Robin Twite was born in Britain in 1932. In 1968-74, he was director of the British Council in Israel and spent a further three years as administrator of the Open University. On his retirement, he settled in Jerusalem and now works for the Hebrew University.

Hillel Tryster was born in Australia in 1961 and has lived in Jerusalem since 1976. He is deputy director of the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, where he has worked since 1988. His book, "Israel Before Israel: Silent Cinema in the Holy Land" was published in 1995. He was curator of the Haifa Film Festive and has lectured extensively in Israel and abroad.

Tamar Zohary was born in California in 1953 and grew up in Jerusalem. She is a senior scientist at the Sea of Galilee Limnological Laboratory. She studies food-web relationships in aquatic systems with a focus on the ecology of microscopic algae. Her research work is published regularly in scientific journals.

We are grateful to the following for permission to publish material in this issue:

The drawings on page 24 are the work of Stephen Ashley. "Liora" is a short story from Yitzhak Bar-Yosefs collection of short stories: "Life Will Be Good To You, Too" Am Oved publishers, Tel Aviv, 1997. "Faith and Fulfilment" by Michael J. Pragai, is adapted from the introduction to his book of the same name, published by Vallentine and Mitchell, London, 1985.

For the article by Hillel Tryster, "Silent Films in Palestine: Kevin Brownlow, p. 44 (top and lower left); Stephen Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, pp. 46; Yossi Halachmi, p. 46 (nos. 3 and 4), 47 (nos. 2, 3,4); Kalman Aharoni, courtesy of Liora Kroyanker, p. 47 (no.1), 51.

The Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem, for the historical photographs of Lake Hula on pp.74, 75, 79 and p. 44 (right). Ruth Eshel for the photographs of Eskesta, pp. 53-6.

John Crook: 20 (top, centre left and lower); 21 (top, centre right, lower); 22 (top, lower); 27 (centre); 29, 30 ; Martin Biddle: 21 (centre); Palphot: 20 (centre); Studium Biblicum Franciscanum: 22 (centre left); Israel Antiquities Authority: 22 (centre); Aliza Auerbach: 35, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41; Arik Baltinester: 53, 56; Dina Guna: 54, 55; Shai Ginott: 76, 77, 78