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Benny Shklovsky is a Jerusalem-based filmmaker and editor. Born in Russia in 1987 and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1991. He holds a BFA from the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University. His student sci-fi short Reeds was supported by and screened at UtopiaFest Tel Aviv. After years of work in studios and on film sets as an editor, post-production supervisor, and even a stunt performer, Benny shifted his focus to independent fiction and documentary filmmaking. Films he produced or edited have screened at festivals including Docaviv, the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, the Sydney AI & Smartphone Film Festival and more.

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Yuval Tebol, born 1971 in Jaffa, Israel.

Tebol is a well-established photographer and academic lecturer on Photography and Research at Hadassah and Sapir academic colleges. During twenty years of ongoing photographic work, he has conducted a visual and conceptual research of the photographic medium, ways of seeing, and the nature of observation.

Working consistently on long term photographic projects and photographing solely with analog cameras and Black and White film, for the past decade he has dedicated his work to "Land Research"- a thematic and widespread visual research of the landscape of Israel and the west bank.

Tebol exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions in galleries in Canada, Germany, New York, Belgium and museums in Israel, Austria, Italy,China and Japan.

In October 2017, The Florence Biennale's International Selection Committee has selected "Land Research Project" to participate in the International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Florence, Italy and Tebol Received the ‘Lorenzo il Magnifico’ International Award by the Florence Biennial Committee.

Academic Employment

2008-Present

Lecturer in the Department of New Media, Design and Visual Communication at Sapir Academic College.

2013- Present Lecturer in the Department of Photography and Visual Communication at Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem.

2019-Present

Lecturer in the Department of New Media, Design and Visual Communication at Ariel University.

2014-2018

Initiative and facilitating the project "eye contact to the youth" in the Peres Center for Peace. The project presented annually in exhibition and book.

2014-2016

Curator at the International Festival of Photography in Israel in 2014 and 2016.

Relevant Academic Activities and Employment:

2019, Initiator and facilitator of a multi-disciplinary academic research Project in Greece within the framework of a research program, students in the department of Politics and Communication and the department of Visual Communication at the Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem travelled Greece to contemplate the ongoing refugee crisis.

2018, lecturing at the University of Brighton through the Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem and through "Clever", an academic cooperation program of the European Union.

2013, lecturing at the "EU HAUS" in Vienna, with Agency- France Press chief photographer Marco Longari, presenting two different aspects of photo coverage of the Arab uprising and the Israeli - Palestinian conflict.

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Dr. Hadas Ben-Eli holds a Bachelor of Science in Optometry from Hadassah Academic College (now the Jerusalem Multidisciplinary Academic Center), a Master of Science in Neuroscience and Behavior, and a Doctorate in Public Health from the Hebrew University.

Dr. Ben-Eli developed a psychophysical test for the early diagnosis of age-related macular degeneration using color vision, which earned her an award from the Israeli Society for the Study of Vision, and during her doctorate she examined risk factors and a possible common pathway for dry eye syndrome, Sjögren's syndrome, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. These studies were conducted in collaboration with the Department of Ophthalmology, the Department of Rheumatology, Hematology, and the Department of Oral Medicine at Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center, and were published at international conferences and in renowned scientific journals.

Currently, Dr. Ben-Eli is the Head of the Department of Optometry at the Jerusalem Multidisciplinary Academic Center, a Lecturer in Ocular Pathology and Statistics in the Bachelor of Optometric Sciences, and coordinates the Master's Degree Clinical Seminar (Israeli and International) in the Department of Vision Sciences and Optometry.

In addition, Dr. Ben-Eli serves as the Director of the Optometry and Biometrics Service at Hadassah Medical Center.

Dr. Ben-Eli's research focuses on anterior segment diseases of the eye, such as dry eye disease and cataracts, and their impact on vision tests, vision tests in children, fitting and calculating intraocular lenses for candidates for cataract surgery, and fitting contact lenses for cases of complex eye diseases. These studies are conducted in collaboration with the provincial health bureaus at the Ministry of Health, with ophthalmologists from Hadassah Medical Center, with companies from the optics industry, and with researchers in the field of vision from abroad.