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![](javascript:doblowup('Burning Hametz-I','/images/uploaded/up_mXMauk.jpg','An ultra-Orthodox Jewish girl rubs smoke from her face as she watches the burning of food stuffs containing leavening, or "Hametz," in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem on 18 April 2008 when Jewish households burn their leavening left over after cleaning their homes before the onset of the high Jewish Passover holiday.',700,700);)
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 in Jerusalem as an air raid siren sounds on 08 April 2008 morning in what Israel is saying is the largest emergency drill ever held. A Jewish man (R) and a Palestinian woman make their way to the shelter as instructed, which was an underground parking lot. The drills, called \'Turning Point 2,\' are being conducted by the Home Front Command and the army to check preparedness for various war scenarios.',700,700);)
![](javascript:doblowup('...and Done!','/images/uploaded/up_KoI908.jpg','An ultra-Orthodox Jewish young man shows off a batch of freshly baked hand-made \'Matzah,\' as they come out of the olive wood oven in a small religious community near Kiryat Gat on 7 April 2008, as the community finishes tries to get as many of the breads done before Passover as they can. One Rabbi working here said their Matzah is "the best in the world."',700,700);)
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 and then laid out on the stone for his body to be washed prior to burial. Thousands of Christians are flocking to this church, one of the oldest in the world, to pray and commemorate Holy Week and Easter tomorrow.<br />\r\n+++++++++++++<br />\r\nIt\'s made on a small tripod at 1.3-second exposure at F14 on 200 ASA, set for daylight white balance, for the techies out there.',700,700);)
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![](javascript:doblowup('Angela Merkel at Knesset','/images/uploaded/up_ipkC1i.jpg','German Chancellor Angela Merkel, accompanied by Dalia Itzik, Speaker of the Israeli Knesset, as they turn on the red carpet after Merkel laid a wreath on the plaza of the Parliament in Jerusalem during her welcoming ceremony 0n 18 March 2008. Merkel later addressed the plenum and spoke of many subjects including the Holocaust, Iran\'s nuclear threat not just to israel but to Western Europe and the world, and Germany\'s "shame" for World War II.<br />\r\n+++++++++<br />\r\nThe photo was done as a Pool, and I asked the Knesset for permission to be on a small ledge overlooking the plaza where one isralei TV camera was positioned. I had to argue for it, as we were two Pool photographers and I convinced the Knesset spokesman there was no tsense in the two of us duplicting our work. This was published in the Herald Tribune.',700,700);)
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![](javascript:doblowup('Tzipi & Condi','/images/uploaded/up_1aOsGt.jpg','US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni in their joint press conference in a Jerusalem hotel on 05 March 2008 at the close of Rice\'s visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority on 05 March 2008. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to return to negotiations with Israel, Rice announced and stressed that Hamas in the Gaza Strip should stop its rocket attacks against Israel, but did not call for a ceasefire.<br />\r\n++++++++++++++=<br />\r\nSpirits and not running high that the road map to peace will advance, but rather that now is just a pause and hostilities will resume soon. This was done as a Pool, so it was distributed to all the foreign press outlets and all the "wires."<br />\r\nI shot at a slow shutter speed to deliberately blur her hands while she was gesturing.',700,700);)
 into their joint press conference after their lengthly meeting in the \'Muqata,\' or Palestinian Authority headquarters, in the West Bank town of Ramallah during their meeting on 04 March 2008. Rice stressed in a joint press conference that that both the Palestinians and Israelis must try hard to overcome obstacles in order to make the post-Annapolis agreement peace agreement work.',700,700);)
![](javascript:doblowup('Victory, Now Take Cover','/images/uploaded/up_w2onea.jpg','An Israeli gives the \'V\' sign as he and others take shelter in the doorway of a reinforced bus stop in the center of Sderot as a \'red alert\' is sounded, signaling a rocket attack by Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip. At right a woman runs to another shelter.Some 240 rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel since last Wednesday. Israel ended it\'s ground operations early this morning. Some 240 missile have been shot into Israel from the Gaza Strip in less than one week, when hostilities increased dramatically last Wednesday.<br />\r\n++++++++++++++++<br />\r\nI wonder, does this man really thing he has won? Does the Churchillian "V" sign still means Victory, or does it now mean Peace? Hard to tell sometimes. One thing for certain, the \'missile conflict\' Israel faces with the Gaza Strip is not won, nor will it ever be, unless real, lasting peace is someone discovered. <br />\r\n',700,700);)
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