The girl whose picture won its Israeli photographer the Pulitzer prize thinks it is nothing to be proud of, and that it does not even count as art. Identified only as Nili from Jerusalem, she is 17 years old and was the subject of an AP photograph of the Amona eviction – the violent police pogrom conducted against Jews in Samaria in early 2006.
"I knew about the photo and the prizes but I wasn't excited by it. For me it was just another prize he [photographer Oded Balilty] had won."
"This picture is no honor," Nili told NRG. "It reflects the reality that was there. It upsets me that people see it as art." Nili said she has never spoken to Balilty. She also promised to be there "at any place where a struggle is needed, as long as that is what the Lord wants."
"I knew about the photo and the prizes but I wasn't excited by it. For me it was just another prize he [photographer Oded Balilty] had won."
"This picture is no honor," Nili told NRG. "It reflects the reality that was there. It upsets me that people see it as art." Nili said she has never spoken to Balilty. She also promised to be there "at any place where a struggle is needed, as long as that is what the Lord wants."