English: Family portrait taken circa 1944. The family of Suleiman ben Pinhas al-Cohen (the elderly man sitting), and his son, Salam (Shalom) Cohen, sitting next to him with a baby in his arm. Standing next to Salam is his sister, Sham’a (Shoshanna Bedihi). In Yemen, the father and his son worked in silver gilded with gold (Ar. asli), the only family in Sana’a to work in this profession.

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Copies of the original photo were made and distributed to members of the family, before Rumia (the wife of the photographer, Yihi’el Haiby) bequeathed her deceased husband’s photographic collection to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. This image, however, is now in the public domain because its term of copyright has expired in Israel. According to Israel's copyright statute from 2007 (translation), “a work is released to the public domain on 1 January of the 71st year after the author's death (paragraph 38 of the 2007 statute) with the following exceptions: ##A photograph taken on 24 May 2008 or earlier — the old British Mandate act applies, i.e. on 1 January of the 51st year after the creation of the photograph (paragraph 78(i) of the 2007 statute, and paragraph 21 of the old British Mandate act).” Since this photograph was made in Yemen in the circa 1944, more than 70 years have transpired since its creation.