The iPhone did away with the profession, because now everyone takes pictures. What made you make the transition to spokesman? When she got back and saw the picture spreads in all the magazines, she said she hadn’t known there were paparazzi in Israel. She fled from her partner and actually came to Israel with her lover. That was a story of an Italian star, a news anchor who had just married, and who three months later disappeared. What’s the most you were ever paid for a picture? But I know who these people are and I had informants everywhere. Here he wasn’t afraid, because he was anonymous, he didn’t feel threatened. A Spanish star came here with his male lover. Many French stars whose names won’t mean anything to you. The tabloids paid a lot for the pictures, and all the photographers here were busy with local events. In France stars like that can’t walk on the street. Some came here to cheat, some for a vacation, for a festival, to deliver a lecture. But most of my work involved photos of European stars who came here, which I sold to the tabloids there. I don’t go to the Knesset or to the Prime Minister’s Bureau to take pictures, but someone leaked to me that he was going to get his hair cut that day. In France they were looking for a shot of Shamir. One of my scoops was a picture of Yitzhak Shamir at the barber a few days before he went to the Madrid Conference. Something different, a shot that only I have. I knew what exclusive photography means: The moment it’s exclusive there’s money. Besides that, I had a concept different from the Israelis. I was a paparazzi photographer for 20 years.įirst of all, I was alone. I said of course, and since then I’ve been attached to them. The chairman knew me as a media person and asked if I had connections with the French press. I told them, “Look, guys, there are rabbis here who have started to treat the injuries, doctors with beards and earlocks, it’s a unique image.” It was a headline on every television newscast. I saw a CNN crew and a crew from French television, which is what I’m interested in. Our doctors set up the tables with the equipment and started to deal the injured, one after the other. After the typhoon in the Philippines in 2013 there was madness in the hospitals, panic. A story that will give me an item I can feed to the international press.