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Visitors at a new shark aquarium in the Southern israeli city of Eilat.
A Jewish man examines a citron, known as an Etrog, for imperfections, preparing to make his purchase in a 'four-species' market in Jerusalem on October 5, 2014. The Etrog is one of the four species used during rituals in the week-long Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Sukkot commemorates the Israelites 40 years of wandering in the […]
Not everyone wants to wait until after Yom Kippur to start building their Sukkah. This Sukkah is being built in Kfar Etzion. Chag Sameach.
Israel's President Ruby Rivlin recites Slichot, the prayers for forgiveness that are said leading up to Yom Kippur. This slichot prayer session was held at the President's official residence. Speaking of presidential pardons, it would be good if this were the year that Jonathan Pollard was let free.
A Hareidi man performs the Kaparos ceremony for his son, in Beitar. The ritual, which some consider controversial, is performed before Yom Kippur, as part of the repentance process. A chicken is gently raised and waved over the head of a family member or yourself. The person performing the ritual says the following statement (or […]
Children help clean up Ashkelon in an event organized by the Jewish National Fund, as part of Clean up the World Day, on Sept. 29, 2014.
Lot's wife is no longer alone. Life-size sculptures of some popular fictional characters have been planted at the Ein Gedi beach along the Dead Sea. Presumably they'll get covered with sand, mud and salt as time goes by. Lot's wife is actually a bit further south. So I don't know how much they'll be seeing […]
Israelis perform the Tashlich ceremony along the beach in Tel Aviv.
Head of the Israeli Navy Ram Rothberg attends a memorial ceremony held at sea by Israeli sailors from the navy's newest submarine, the INS Tanin. The ceremony was in memory of the personnel of the INS Dakar, which sank 435 km. off the coast of Haifa in 1968. September 21, 2014.
Hareidim in Meah Shearim are wasting no time to prepare for the Sukkot holiday, even if we have to still have to first celebrate Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.
It's not monopoly money. It's Israel's new 50 Shekel bill (in the middle), with a picture of poet Shaul Tchernikovsky on it. The bill is said to feature some of the most advanced anti-counterfeiting technologies, and it just went into circulation.
It doesn't matter your age, and there's no embarrassment in other boys knowing, boys like toys that fly and that make big, loud sound, or do other cool stuff. In fact, if the boys are smart, they make it look very serious, so they can play with the toys at work too. That's when remote […]
Western Wall's employees, remove thousands of handwritten notes placed between the ancient stones of the Kotel, the Western Wall, Judaism's second holiest site, in the Old City of Jerusalem. The operation is carried out twice each year: before the Passover festival in the spring and at the Jewish New Year in the fall. The prayer […]
They're building a new control tower at Ben Gurion International Airport. This is the view, and what it looks like.
A guide at the Gush Etzion Zoo (bet you didn't there was one of those in Gush Etzion) explains to Junior High School students how to extract the ram horn shell after it dried, and eventually make it into a shofar, on September 15, 2014.
Yehuda Poltzak is an artist from the Hareidi town of Beitar. He creates Judaica artifacts that decorate the homes and sukkahs of rabbis and community leaders. His creations require months of work.
United Arab Emirates delivered mobile homes to Gaza, for Gazan residents whose home were destroyed in Hamas's war against Israel. An internal Arab poll indicated that at least 70% of Gazans want to permanently leave the Gaza Strip. The more moral act would have been to help these Gazan residents relocate to another country, outside the Middle […]
The North Tower Fountain National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York.
Pomegranates (Rimon) are in the stores, that means Rosh HaShana is getting closer! Pomegranates are eaten during the Rosh Hashana holiday as they contain, on average, 613 seeds, which corresponds to the the 613 commandments written of the Torah we try to fulfill.
Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau visits a Talmud Torah in Bat Ayin (Gush Etzion) at the beginning of the school year.
Many Jewish communities have the custom of saying Selichot (forgiveness prayers) during the entire month of Elul, leading up to the High Holidays.
Soldiers from the Caracal Battalion prepared and participated in a 16 kilometer overnight hike to complete their training course on September 3, 2014. The Caracal Battalion is an infantry combat battalion of the Israel Defense Forces, composed of mostly female soldiers (and a few men). They are stationed along the Egyptian border. If Wonder Woman served in […]
PM Netanyahu pins the bars on a a new IDF Navy officer on Sept. 2, 2014. Congratulations.
A man blows the Shofar at the Kotel, the Jewish People's second holiest site (The first is the Temple Mount itself). The Shofar is blown during the month of Elul, which is the month that precedes Rosh Hashana.
A farmer in the (legal) Tikkun Olan Cannabis farm near Tzfat. This is one of their greenhouses. The company is licensed by Israel's Ministry of Health to grow, process and distribute the medicinal plant.
It doesn't matter how old you are, boys like their toys. In this case, the boy is Israeli President Ruby Rivlin sitting in a fighter jet in the Tel Nof Air Force base. Vrrmmmm, whoosh, boom...
The Israel Museum has a wonderful interactive exhibit called "Bamboo", or as the kids call it, "Bambuk". Made completely out of bamboo poles and rope, you can walk all over around it, all the way to the top of this multistory structure. Highly recommended.
Some Chareidi entertainers thrilled the crowd on Jerusalem's Ben Yehuda Street with some Jewish entertainment.
It's Rosh Chodesh Elul, and that means school has begun in the Chareidi school system.
Asher Schwartz, the JewishPress.com cartoonist lives 2 blocks away from the house that was hit Tuesday morning by the new Hamas rocket. All the windows in his apartment were blown out from the blast (and his neighbor's windows too). His ears are ringing. Keep safe Asher.
Welcome to Lifta spring. One of Jerusalem's best kept secrets. Green, water and swimming near the entrance to Jerusalem... if you know where to look. Great for a hot summer day. Lifta spring is first mentioned in the Bible in the Book of Joshua, as the water of Niphtoach. 15:8 And the border went up […]
The Jerusalem Theater was packed full of French Olim on Sunday, there to celebrate and honor other French Olim who served in the IDF.
ISIS Kindergarten? Real? Not real? Not sure. But someone did dress up and pose a kid like this.
While Jews can't pray on our holiest site, and police make sure no Israeli flags are taken up, Muslims have no problem bringing in and waving an ISIS flag on the Temple Mount. Maybe we'll allow them to run executions there too, while we're at it.
So imagine, you're working in the field harvesting cucumbers (or whatever is in season right now) and suddenly the siren goes off - Hamas is shooting rockets at you.
Hamas is frustrated. Their missiles turned out to be useless, their tunnels were destroyed, they lost hundreds of terrorists, and the IDF effectively routed them both in war and now at the diplomatic table. So to vent some of those frustrations (and to keep the populace angry), they've been running angry anti-Israel protests. At this […]
The Israeli Air Force has decided to name its new fighter training jet the "Lavi". The jet is being manufactured by Aermacchi of Italy. Israel is buying 30 of these plane. In exchange, Italy is buying Israeli military systems including satellites and control systems. Until now Israel has been using aging US Skyhawk jets for […]
Young Israelis danced, partied and filled up Jerusalem's Midrachov (city center) on Friday. Someone forgot to invite me.
A hareidi man playing with his child at Sacher Park in Jerusalem, on August 14, 2014, during summer vacation.
A Hareidi family from Antwerp are packing up their belongings as they prepare to make Aliya from Belgium on August 07, 2014. Europe has seen a massive outbreak of anti-Semitic attacks on Jews, and many Jews are considering leaving to escape before it gets worse.
Only in Israel... Israeli President Ruby Rivlin personally welcomed new Olim (immigrants) as they step off the plane today, August 12, 2014. This flight was called the "Soldier's Flight" as 110 of the young people on this Aliyah flight are joining the IDF.
Members of Machnot Olim youth movement along with Holocaust survivors, flying kites for the 72 year rememberence of the execution of Yanush Korjack and his students in Treblinka at Yad Vashem on August 7, 2014. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
Shemot 15:1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spoke, saying: I will sing unto the LORD, for He is highly exalted; the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea. Israeli soldiers sing as they embrace each other at a staging area in Southern Israel […]
Women in Green organized a reading of the Book of Eichah (Lamentations) on the eve of the Jewish fast day of Tisha B'av, in front of the American Consulate in Jerusalem, on August 4, 2014. An estimated 1500 people took part in the reading and later marched around the walls of the Old City. Tisha […]
These motorcycles were found inside Hamas terror tunnels leading into Israeli towns.
An Israeli-Arab Bedouin Sheikh arrives at Beer Sheva Saroka hospital yesterday to distribute flowers to wounded IDF soldiers. Each flower had a note attached to it, "We're all in this together".
An Israeli mother protects her baby as a siren goes off near the Gaza border.
This is probably the first time in my life I've seen an IDF barber. Who knew we even had them! (Notice he's using an electric shaver!)
Yeshoron Tzoran is the officer who stopped the Arab terrorist near Beitar Ilit who was driving a massive car bomb to his target. Tzoran's quick thinking and action saved hundreds of lives.
Hospital staff at Schneider Children's Hospital in Petach Tikva gathered up the babies and took them to the stairway for protection after a rocket siren went off this morning.
Tomer Sargon of Netivot heard that IDF soldiers haven't been able to bath in days, for lack of water and showering facilities out in the field. So he took it upon himself to help, by driving down to the Gaza border with a truck filled with huge water containers, just so the soldiers could have […]
IDF soldiers are receiving care packages from citizens all over Israel.
I guess when you can't have a real victory in your genocidal attempts to wipe out the Jewish state, celebrating a kidnapping that apparently didn't happen is the next best thing.
The above appears to have been published in the British Telegraph on Friday. Remember, you read it here first.
A reservist says good-bye to his family, near the entry point to Gaza.
Despite the attacks from Gaza, these French Jews arrived in Israel today on Aliyah! Welcome home!
Berale Yackobovitz goes to his knees to propose to Margalit near a tank near the border with Gaza in South Israel, during Operation Protective Edge, on July 15, 2014.
Didn't your mother tell you not to jump on the bed? I know there's not much to do while hanging out in the bomb shelter as Gazan rockets land on your town. These kids look particularly bored. I think they need board games, not bored games. Anyway, the ceilings in this bomb shelter aren't that […]
The Arab enemy launched a barrage of rockets over central Israel last night. Doesn't it look like pretty fireworks?
IDF troops wait outside Gaza for orders to do something in response to the massive barrage of missiles launched at Israel.
Arabs in Shuafat spent the weekend destroying the Jerusalem Light Rail's infrastructure and fomenting civil war.
If you can't read the Hebrew, it says, "Price Tag Death to Jew"
Students at Makor Chaim Yeshiva comfort one another after hearing the news of the boys bodies being found.
A seemingly endless crowd filled up a Tel Aviv Kikar Rabin square, praying and rallying for the release of Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaar and Naftali Fraenkel, who were kidnapped by Hamas on June 12.
Israeli President Shimon Peres received this Congressional Gold Medal during his visit to D.C., on June 26, 2014.
The contrast between these two photos is astounding.
The Arabs in Battir acknowledge they are occupying the ancient Jewish town in Betar.
IDF soldiers are leaving no stone unturned in the search for the kidnapped boys, Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaar, and Naftali Fraenkel, who were kidnapped by Hamas. They are searching in caves, pits, wells, water tanks, tunnels. Everywhere.
In the photo above, IDF soldiers are at the Shiffon Bakery in Neve Daniel, Gush Etzion, where the bakery handed out free food to the soldiers searching for the kidnapped boys Gil-ad Shaar, Eyal Yifrach and Naftali Frenkel. Throughout Gush Etzion, people have been collecting and sending food to the thousands of soldiers involved in […]
IDF Soldiers load up a truck with some of the Hamas flags taken from Ramallah's Birzeit University. Hamas has been making deep footholds throughout Judea and Samaria, and they are a favorite on the university campuses. A week before he was arrested, one of Hamas's founders, Hassan Yousef spoke at Birzeit university, promising a surprise […]
Jews and Muslims joined together in prayer on Tuesday, praying for the safe return of three kidnapped Jewish boys.
Israeli Knesset Members and workers gather for a prayer in the Kneseet for the release of three Jewish boys who were kidnapped a few days ago by Hamas.
The photo above is of a standard and official Trempim post in Gush Etzion. It is clean, covered, well lit, and very popular.
Thousands of Jewish people gather for a mass prayer for the release of three Jewish teenagers at the Kotel in Jerusalem's Old City on June 14, 2014, Three Jewish teenagers hitchhiking in the West Bank have been missing since Thursday night and are were kidnapped by Hamas terrorists. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
Holocaust survivors, living in mental health hospitals, arrived at the Kotel on Thursday to celebrate their belated Bar Mitzvahs.
The Jerusalem Light Festival is back, and the Old City is all lit up.
July 31, 2026 
