Israeli photo contest features NQR photo

A photograph of a student at last year’s Naked Quad Run recently wound up in an unlikely place: as a finalist in an Independence Day photo contest on a popular Israeli Web site.

The photograph, of a student wrapped in an Israeli flag, was taken by a Somerville Journal reporter during the 2007 run at Tufts. It appears among 10 photographs that made it to the final round of voting in a Mynet.co.il photo contest celebrating Israel’s 61st anniversary, which took place Tuesday.

The photograph is entitled “The Flag is Naked” and was submitted under the name of "Shimon Pecker." The Journal reported that it was stolen.

As part of the contest, Mynet.co.il asked users to submit photographs that represented Israelis and life in Israel. Mynet.co.il is associated with the popular Israeli daily Yediot Achronot.

--by Ben Gittleson