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 and to al-Aqsa mosque for the first Friday prayers in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on 28 August 2009 as an Israeli policeman checks the identity card of a Palestinian. Israeli police first announced they would limit attendance to Palestinians over 50 years of age, but in the end allowed all to attend, and said some 90,000 Muslims attended the prayers.',700,700);)
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, South African Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu, and Indian human rights activist Ela Bhatt. Past the barbed wire and fence, on the far side, is an Israeli army outpost where soldiers watch the border area.',700,700);)
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, former Brazilian President Fernando Cardozo (C) and Mary Robinson, the first woman president of Ireland, listen to the young woman on the West Bank side of the Kalandia Checkpoint on 26 August 2009.',700,700);)
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![](javascript:doblowup('Teddy Kennedy','/images/uploaded/up_2UXEgR.jpg','Senator Edward M.Kennedy in the desert somewhere in the northern desert of Sudan, along the Ethiopian border, during a trip in December 1984 to see for himself the enormous famine that hit Sudan and Ethiopia. Kennedy, one of the most effective lawmakers in the history of the US Senate, died at age 77, more than a year after suffering a seizure due to brain cancer.<br />\r\n++++++++<br />\r\nI was in Ethiopian on assignment for UPI in December 1984, trying to get out from the capital Addis Ababa to see the famine hit areas in the north. There were rumors that the Jews in the country were trekking out from the north of Ethiopia in to the Sudan and were being secretly flown into Israel from desert airstrips. I was more interested in photographing the famine, but it was just impossible to get reliable transport and permissions to photograph. From out of the blue I heard of this Kennedy junket and managed to get hooked up with them, but I don\'t remember it it was via my connections in Addis itself or via Washington. I believe it was via UPI in the States. In any event I did get on Teddy Kennedy\'s plane in Addis and spent a few days touring the feeding centers with him,his son and entourage. We then went into Khartoum, Sudan and up into the desert along the border with Ethiopia to find Ethiopians trekking into the Sudan. We did find them, but the Sudanese officials kept driving us in circles in a convoy of Land Rovers as they officially kept changing their mind deciding where the border was between the two countries. This made Teddy pretty mad and it was all he could do to keep his cool at the incompetence of these officials. He does not suffer fools easily. Just as he was loosing it and beginning to approach yelling, on the horizon a group of some twenty people walking through the desert under these small, spreading deset trees, approached. It was a very emotional to see them limping into this gully area and then were told to head in another direction to a camp and feeding center. That is when I took this photo, as Teddy\'s mood lifted and he saw some encouragement that this small band of people who were literally wearing tatters arrived, but might just have survived. We went then to the feeding center. Later, we stayed in Khartoum and it was Christmas eve and Teddy invited the journalists over to the US Embassy or Consulate, and we went over, Martin Fletcher from NBC I remember was part of the group - and Kennedy broke out a bottle of Johhnny Walker Black from his briefcase, on the lawn of the Consulate, in "dry" Sudan, and we all toasted the Christmas, several times.<br />\r\n++++++++++<br />\r\nMy short Teddy Kennedy story. This was a long, long time ago. I have just turned sixty today - Whoosh! - and remember when this happened I was 35. Hardly a gray hair on my head, and a good 30 pounds thinner. Teddy as well. When I returned to Tel Aviv a few days before New Years, where I was based with UPI, I packed up my darkroom and moved into the Reuters building and set up shop in their kitchen for a few months. UPI had been bought out by Reuters who, under Charlie McCarty, was beginning their photo service. Ichanged jobs, changed darkrooms on the last day of the year, and on the first day of 1985 put out photos for Reuters of Jews who had been brought into Israel from secret airlifts that the Isralei Air Force had been carrying out from a secret airbase in the north of the country near the Ethiopian border. It is very interesting how things work out, trying to cover two sides of the story........ONWARDS ',700,700);)
![](javascript:doblowup('The Lessening GAP','/images/uploaded/up_qO5006.jpg','A shopper with arms-full of children\'s clothes checks out during the opening of the first GAP clothing store in a Jerusalem mall on 24 August 2009. Hundreds of people from the fashion and business industries attended the opening of the American retail clothing store, amid an announcement that another store would open in Tel Aviv.<br />\r\n+++++++++++<br />\r\nThe event seemed to be to turn into an anti-recession illustration, to say good times are back. I went with my daughter Mikella, herself the "fashionista" of the family and she was thrilled Not so thrilled I did not purchase the bag she wanted but thrilled to be at her first fashion event. Even got her own name tag. Maybe a budding fashion journalist?',700,700);)
. Hundreds of Israelis from both the fashion and business industries attended the opening of the American retail clothing store.<br />\r\n+++++++++++<br />\r\nA sign of the a large "green shoot" of the recession easing, or just a shop opening that should have happened ten years ago. Everyone enjoyed themselves and the clothing was in hot demand. ',700,700);)
![](javascript:doblowup('Cabinet POOL','/images/uploaded/up_7oMC7g.jpg','Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem offices on 23 August 2009. As the cabinet was meeting Israeli papers are reporting another 104 housing units are expected to be built in East Jerusalem.<br />\r\n++++++++++<br />\r\nShot as a Pool for the Foreign Press Association members, notably the "wires." We do a rotation of the weekly cabinet so every five weeks it is epa\'s turn, but today it took me at least 45 minutes of questioning to get through security and into the building as there are so few \'photo-ops\' with the prime minister these days, all the security people looked new and did not know me.',700,700);)
![](javascript:doblowup('The First Iftar in Ramadan','/images/uploaded/up_POjIKD.jpg','Palestinians of the Abu Smeheh family sit around a table in the middle of their family\'s sweet shop in the Old City of Jerusalem as they break the Ramadan fast, called "Iftar," as evening prayers are called on 22 August 2009, marking the end of the first day of fasting in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The family has been operating the sweet shop for over 50 years.',700,700);)
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 in East Jerusalem on 17 August 2008 as he listens to his guide, Daniel Luria (R), Director of the Ateret Cohenim, a group who raises money and purchases buildings so that Jews may settle in predominately Arab East Jerusalem. Huckabee is on a trip to Israel sponsored by Ateret Cohenim called the \'Jerusalem Reclamation Project.\' He will visit the controversial Shepherd\'s Hotel, a property purchased by Ateret Cohenim that caused the Obama administration to voice its concern over replacing the hotel with 20 housing units for Jewish families. Huckabee said the US has taken too harsh a stance against Israel on the issue of settlements and said the US should not \'be telling Jewish people in Israel where they should and should not live.\'',700,700);)
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 as he takes part in a mass prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on 12 August 2009 to free abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who has been held by Hamas forces in the Gaza Strip for over three years. About 1,000 people took part in the prayer, which falls on Shalit\'s 23rd birthday.',700,700);)
 as he walks in front of the West Wall in Jerusalem on 12 August 2009 after placing a small note in the cracks of the ancient stones. Gilad Shalit\'s father Noam (2,R) stands next to Rabbi Israel Lau (R)m, a former Chief Rabbi, at the end of a mass prayer asking for the abducted Israeli solder\'s release from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, which was attended by about 1,000 people at the Wall, Judaism\'s holiest site. Tomorrow is Gilad\'s 23rd birthday.<br />\r\n++++++++++<br />\r\nTwenty-five years here and I\'ve finally seen it. maybe PEACE is indeed around the corner. One brave dude! Sort of like the Dylan song goes, ...there\'s something going on here but you dontt know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?',700,700);)
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![](javascript:doblowup('Out of Her House','/images/uploaded/up_dehS5Z.jpg','Houla Hannoun, a Palestinian evicted from her home recently, lights a candle with other demonstrators, many of them international peace activists, during a candle demonstration opposite her former home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem on 10 August 2009. The protest was organized by Rabbis for Human Rights and was held in front of the Hannoun house where her family had lived for generations until a court order evicted her and her family in favor of right-wing Jews who moved in.<br />\r\n++++++<br />\r\nThis issue will be a "Deal breaker," I believe, in the coming year - if the Peace talk ever go forward, something looking very doubtful right now. Keep your eye on settlements and expansion in Jerusalem for keeping any peace talks from starting.',700,700);)
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 stand. The model was built to a scale of 1:60 with Rabbinic consultations throughout the project, and is meant to increase the Jewish connection to Jerusalem. ',700,700);)
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 chairman and the foreign minister.\' At right is Uzi Landau.',700,700);)
 on 02 August 2009 in the Church of the Nativity as he guides the dignitaries around the ancient church where Jesus Christ was born in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. Palestinians from Syria and Lebanon have traveled to Bethlehem to take part in the first Fatah party convention to be held in some 20 years. It begins on Tuesday and lasts some 4 days. In details leaked to the pres on Saturday the Fatah party plans to oppose recognizing Israel as a Jewish state, will call on its supporters to use civil disobedience in its struggle with Israel, and will consider launching a strategic dialogue with Iran.<br />\r\n+++++++++++++<br />\r\nThis should be a very interesting convention. Already security is so tight I could not get inside the building to do some features despite pulling strings. It all has to do with Hamas. Things are a mess. Democracy gone awry. How to patch it up? Big problems. Stay tuned.',700,700);)
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