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Ya'ackov Ben-Dov (1882–1968) photographer and a pioneer of Jewish Cinematography in Palestine .1Ben Dov was born in what is now the Ukraine and attended the Academy of the Arts in Kiev . He came to Israel with the Second Aliyah . He was a graduate of the Bezalel Academy . Ben Dov shot some of the earliest footage of an archaeological expedition, the excavation of the Hammat Tiberias Synagogue , in 1920. The footage was used in his film Shivat Zion (Return to Zion).2
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Yaacov Ben-Dov (21 June 1882– 7 March 1968) was an Israeli photographer and a pioneer of Jewish cinematography in Palestine .
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Yaacov Ben-Dov (21 June 1882 – 7 March 1968) was an Israeli photographer and a pioneer of Jewish cinematography in Palestine .
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Israeli photographer Yaacov Ben-Dov ( Hebrew : יעקב בן-דוב ; 21 June 1882 – 7 March 1968) was an Israeli photographer and a pioneer of Jewish cinematography in Palestine .
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born in what is now the ukraine and attended the academy of the arts in kiev
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israeli photographer and a pioneer of jewish cinematography in palestine
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