Batgirl at the Gabrieli Carmel School in Tel Aviv, March 15, 2022.
Our photo server, Flash90, was particularly generous this Purim, with a lovely assortment of costumes snapped by their talented photographers. And we sprinkled a few from other sources. So, without any ado at all, here is this year’s selection:
Here are two, count them, two versions of Muppet scientist Bunsen Honeydew’s lab assistant Beaker. Another experiment gone terribly wrong? / Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90You must have heard of the Boyaner cowboys. Well, here is where they get their initial training, in the Meah Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem. / Yonatan Sindel/Flash90This Tsfat kid is the ultimate kosher ham. / David Cohen/Flash90OK, time for political humor: MK Itamar Ben Gvir sent us this photo Purim morning. The guy on his chest is Ra’am Chairman MK Mansour Abbas, and the caption reads: My Prime Minister. / CourtesyInebriated folks in a Jerusalem alley. The photograph is from 2021, but we couldn’t ignore it. / Shir Torem/Flash90Some more current events Purim: a Jewish Ukrainian girl who fled the war zone is getting ready for a Purim party at a temporary shelter in Kishinev, Moldova. / Yossi Zeliger/Flash90The four leaders of the world (L-R): Zelinsky, Bennett, Putin, and Biden, at the Gabrieli Carmel School in Tel Aviv. They look a little eerie without eyes, more like an alien invasion than a political get-together. / Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90
This one is complex. It’s a Haredi guy carrying Avigdor Liberman in his wheelbarrow. The caption is from the Megillah 9:1: ‘…the opposite happened, and the Jews got their enemies in their power.’
Finally, what’s this Purim costume about? Is it for Netflix? Against it? Is it a reevaluation of the entire concept of online streaming? Please help. This man was at Gvurat Israel Synagogue in Tel Aviv for the Megillah. But that don’t solve the riddle. / Tomer Neuberg/Flash90
