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An Israeli photographer documented more than a thousand sheep in the north;

This is the spectacular result

For more than half a year, photographer Lior Fattal followed more than a thousand sheep in the Ramot Menashe area, and managed to spectacularly document the gathering, scattering, crossing of roads and the transition from winter green pasture to summer yellow of the herd, which is dominated by dogs.

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Ziv Reinstein

Sunday, 27 June 2021, 16:27 Updated: 16:50

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In the video: The flock of sheep in Ramot Menashe (photography and editing: Lior Fattal)

We often get to see wonderful sights of nature - landscapes, waterfalls, erupting volcanoes and more, but Lior Fattal, a glider photographer with a RTA license, has been following only one thing for the past seven months - sheep.

Or rather - a large herd of sheep (1,750 1,000 sheep), located in the area of ​​the Peace Valley in Ramot Menashe. The

flock belongs to Keith Markov, a Jew from South Africa who made aliyah and had a dream to establish a farm and pasture. His partner owns the herd since 1985 is Michael Morgan, born in Yokneam to a surviving vegetable farmer the Holocaust. together, they employ the shepherds of trustees for years Mustafa Tbs and Mahmoud Ka'abiye, every day at five in the morning at work. they help Isle son of Michael, Dan Goldfinger-law of Keith.

the sheep are held on natural pasture most of the year , When Mustafa used Border Collie dogs to collect and control the sheep.

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Border Collie dogs control sheep (Photo: Walla !, Lior Fattal)

The large herd includes 1,750-1,000 sheep (Photo: Walla !, Lior Fattal)

"I was addicted to the impressive movement of the sheep"

"Already in my first encounter with the herd, I became addicted to the impressive movement of the sheep and realized that the first challenge is to understand the elasticity of the herd during the movement, its degree of dispersal during grazing and how it converges into one stick towards exit / return from pasture, and crossing roads and paths," he said. Fattal for Walla!

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With the help of the grazing dogs, Mustafa and his family manage the herd movement in an exemplary and fascinating way.

The transition from winter pasture to summer pasture stems from the need to supplement the herd's diet, in the absence of green grass in the hot months and to provide them with adequate shelter during the summer, so the entire herd moves its location in impressive movement along 7-5 kilometers from the Carob Valley parking lot to the outskirts of Kibbutz Ramat the judge.

"I was addicted to the impressive movement of the sheep."

The herd in the gathering (Photo: Walla !, Lior Fattal)

The sheep drink water in the corral (Photo: Walla !, Lior Fattal)

The herd copies its location in an impressive movement along 7-5 kilometers (Photo: Walla !, Lior Fattal)

Between the green winter pasture and the yellow summer pasture

Tafal says that as the encounters between him and the shepherds and the herd increased, and thanks to the impressive hospitality of the shepherd and his family combined with morning and evening coffee conversations with Keith and Michael, he was able to formulate a photo plan of the herd, which was not easy.

"They made every effort to pinpoint in their heads the expected movements and the manner in which the herd behaved in the pasture," he explains, "and thus I formulated a general plan for the points of interest relevant to photography."

And so, at the end of the process, his photographic plan matured to document the herd between the green winter pasture and the more comfortable summer pasture as the fields turn yellow, including the movement within the Yokneam colony towards the wool shearing.

The transition from winter grazing to summer grazing stems from the need to supplement the herd's diet (Photo: Walla !, Lior Fattal)

The sheep in the Peace Valley (Photo: Walla !, Lior Fattal)

"One of the most special photography experiences"

"When it comes to photography, due to the elasticity of the herd structure during movement (one attached to the grazing exit and a wider distribution during grazing), apart from the opening whip where I accompany a complex camera movement the herd exit to the winter pasture - in all other sections the camera is fixed in the air." Concludes and adds that this was one of the most special photography experiences he has ever documented.

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