Brian Hendler, a press photographer here since 1984, did not mince words in criticizing the behavior of some Israeli photographers. They will do anything to get a picture, paparazzi or not. They have no problems sticking cameras in the faces of people at relatives' graves. Hendler said the aggressiveness in Israel has gotten worse with the intensifying competition between Yediot Aharonot and Ma'ariv. I think it is wrong.
Celebrities have every right to privacy.
What it boils down to is good taste, nothing else. Thankfully in Israel we have not sunk to the level of the paparazzi. Rubinger sees no parallel between photographing people in the midst of their grief at a cemetery and stalking celebrities and photographing them in the privacy of summer homes or on yachts. This country mourns people every day, people who supposedly fell for the nation. This grief is a national disaster.