Leadership intimacy, a woman dressed up as a man to watch football, and a hungry puma facing prey • World Press Photo photos to be released in Israel next week

Border of tears

Photo by John Moore, GettyImages

Janella Sanchez, a Honduran toddler, cries while she and her mother, Sandra, are arrested by U.S. border police in the city of McAllen, South Texas, on June 12, 2018. Migrant families crossed the Rio Grande River on rafts from Mexico, then arrested by US authorities.

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Sandra said she and her daughter were on the road for a month, crossing Central America and Mexico, before arriving in the U.S. in search of asylum. To various detention facilities. After the photo was published worldwide, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency announced that Janella and her mother were not among the thousands separated by authorities. Public protest caused President Trump to change his policy on June 20.

The photo won first place in the news photography category (picture of the year)

In the camera eye

Photo by Chris McGrath, GettyImages

In the photo, which was nominated for this year's photo title, an unidentified man appears to be trying to arrest media personnel at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on October 15, 2018. At that time, Saudi investigators arrived to investigate the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashokji, A Saudi regime visitor who has been missing since entering the consulate building on October 2. After weeks of false information, Riyadh announced he had been inadvertently killed during a brawl. The Turkish authorities and the CIA have claimed he was murdered by Saudi intelligence officials, who were instructed from above.

The picture won first place in the general news category

Woman of Valor

Photo by Brent Stirton, GettyImages

Petrona Chigombora (30), a member of a women's anti-hunting unit called Akashinga, participates in stealth training and camouflage at the Pondondo Nature Reserve in Zimbabwe. The Akashinga unit (the "bravery") is a supervisory force, established as an alternative model for nature conservation. The goal of the force is to work with local populations to generate long-term benefits for their communities and the environment. The force includes women who come from backgrounds of distress, empower them, offer them jobs and help the local population directly benefit from the conservation of natural life.

Photography was nominated for the picture of the year and won first place in the environmental category

A river of debris

Photo by Mario Cruz, Portugal

A boy who collects recyclables is lying on a mattress surrounded by garbage floating on the Passig River in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. The river was declared biologically dead in the 1990s, due to a combination of industrial pollution and garbage disposal by environmentalists who live without adequate sanitation infrastructure. According to a 2017 report, it is one of the 20 most polluted rivers in the world, and it releases up to 63,700 tonnes of plastic each year to the ocean. .

The picture won third place in the environment category

Come on, go

Photo: Brendan Smialowski, French news agency

US President Donald Trump holds the hand of French President Emmanuel Macron as they walk into the oval chamber at the White House on April 24, 2018. Macron's visit to the U.S. was the first official visit of Trump's term, and lasted three Days. Unexpectedly, the body language of the two presidents went beyond what is customary on such visits, and limited intimacy. Later, the relationship stalled, and Trump attacked Macron on Twitter.

The picture won third place in the general news category

The cry for freedom

Photo: Wild Alai, Iran

Iran imposes restrictions on women's entry into soccer fields. On March 1, 2018, FIFA President Gianni Infantino met with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to discuss the matter. On June 20, a court in Azari Stadium in Tehran allowed select groups of women to enter international games. Later.

In the photo: a young Persepolis team fan dressed up as a bearded man to enter a football game at Azari Stadium, December 14, 2018. Her exposure would have led to her immediate arrest.

The picture won first place in the sports category

The flamingo sadness

Photo by Jasper Dost

An American flamingo examines the makeshift socks made for him to help cure the serious injuries to his legs, at an animal shelter on the Dutch island of Curacao off the coast of Venezuela. The Flamingo was brought on a flight from neighboring Bonaire Island (also Dutch-controlled), after spending several weeks at a local rehabilitation center. Such injuries are common in captive flamingos, because their feet are very sensitive, and they are used to walking on soft ground. After several weeks of treatment, during which the flamingo grew up in one of the caretakers' homes, he was transferred back to Bonaire. On Bonaire Island, there are about 3,000 pairs of American flamingos. In Curacao there are about 300-200 birds of this type.

The picture won second place in the nature category

Wild nature

Photo: Ingo Arendt, for National Geographic

Puma female siding guanaco (kind of why) Mature male in Torres del Paine, southern Chile, August 4, 2017. The puma can live in a variety of habitats, from deserts and prairies to forests and snowy mountains. They are usually hidden from human eyes. They track a trapper from a distance for about an hour or more before attacking it. Torres del Paine is considered the area where the world's highest concentration of cougars is found, and they are mainly fed by Guanaco.

The picture won third place in the nature category

The World Press Photo Exhibition and the Local Testimony Exhibition, which will show the selected photographs of Israeli photographers this past year, will be held in the Museum - Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv, December 19 to February 8, 2020