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Israel.

First child (Miriam Trito) born in the settlement of Alma. Eliezer Trito is in charge of the pipeline construction work which is going to bring water from the source 3 miles away. He is seen here with the daughter he had with his wife Miriam.

"All you need,' he once said as a noted photographer orated on the psychology behind one of his pictures, 'is a little bit of luck and enough muscle to click the shutter.' He might have added: a good eye, a heart and a knowing nose for news. For all of these were obvious in his work." Judith Friedberg on David Seymour