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Rudolf Jonas (German: Rudolf Jonas; December 1898 - April 1972) was an Israeli-German photographer. Yunes immigrated to Israel in 1933, working in the service of the Basic Fund and the International Film Agency Keystone. His photographs are made of clean modernist compositions and mazes, in the spirit of “new objectivity.”

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Rudolf Yunes was born in December 1898 to a family of fur dealers in Burmberg, Germany. During the First World War he served as a soldier, and with his end he began to study law in Berlin and the Marburg. So he also became aware of the Zionist movement, and its influence came in the mid-20s to visit Israel, and documented it in his camera.
With the rise of the Nazis to power and the beginning of the persecution of Jews in Germany, SS soldiers conducted a search in the home of Yunes; they found between his belongings the "Eisernes Kreuz", which he was given for his service as a soldier in World War I, told him one of the soldiers: "I recommend you vanish from here for a while."
In September 1933, she immigrated to Israel and began to work as a Chabad photographer for the Foundation, and was sent on her behalf to Italy, to the command of Jewish communities and to collect donations for Zionist activity in Israel. With the end of World War II, he began to engage in photography professionally, this time as the Israeli representative of the Keystone International Photography Agency. In the late 1940s, in the midst of the War of Independence, he lived in Jerusalem on the streets of Gaza and his photographs were published in the local and international press (some of his photographs were given to the Diaspora even on the Land of Israel calendar, an artistic calendar for the year to be published by Leon Printer, alongside the photographs of some of the time’s shadows: Lemersky, who is cheap Clogger, Rodri, and Alfred. With the end of the War of Independence, he moved to Haifa and continued to work as a reporter and as a photographer in the service of the Kinston agency until the early 1960s. Although most of his life, Yunes did in the Land of Israel, he remained connected with his soul and his mother tongue to his homeland, and in his insulting heart that he had to leave Germany. Yunes died in Haifa in April 1972, and left no heirs.

Among the issues and permits documented in his life: Holocaust survivors from the detention camps in Cyprus, in their arrival to the Land of Israel; the establishment of walls and towers; the Middle Ages rise in Haifa and many photographs of Haifa and its surroundings; the visit of the UNESCO Committee on Land of Israel (1947), in the Land of Israel, in the countries of the Arab region, and in Europe (the name of the Commission), shall be visited by the committee.

in bibliography
Guy Raz, the shadows of the land: From the beginning of the days of photography to the present day, Tel Aviv: map - mapping and publishing, 2003, p.

Und sie haben Deutschland verlassen... müssen, Fotografen und ihre Bilder, 1928 1997; [Projektleitung]: Klaus Honeff, Frank Weyers, Bonn: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Landschaftsverbandeinland, 1997, pp 2691.

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Israeli Photographers
German Jewish Photographers
Israelis born in Germany
The fifth immigration.
The Iron Cross
The Nazi persecution refugees
Photographers in the Settlement
Israelis born in 1898
Israelis who died in 1972