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![](javascript:doblowup('Holocaust Survivors','/images/uploaded/up_in1Iry.jpg','Israeli Holocaust survivors and family members react during a speech given in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on 28 April 2008 as an art exhibition opens called, "My Homeland," honoring the Holocaust survivors and their multitude of contributions to the state of Israel, as it turns 60, and how those have shaped Israeli society.',700,700);)
![](javascript:doblowup('Yad Vashem','/images/uploaded/up_JZAzZP.jpg','Photographs on the wall of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorials museum in Jerusalem selected as icons of the state that were made by Holocaust survivors and are part of the new exhibit called, "My Homeland", on 27 April 2008.',700,700);)
![](javascript:doblowup('Holocaust Survivors Exhibit','/images/uploaded/up_smbWgb.jpg','Museum-goers at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorials museum in Jerusalem pass the new exhibit "My Homeland" on 27 April 2008, a day before it\'s official opening. The exhibit, which opens in coordination with Israel\'s Holocaust Martyr\'s and Heroes\' Remembrance Day, or Holocaust Day, and with Israel\'s 60th anniversary, presents the story of Holocaust survivors\' role in shaping the state of Israel and its identity and how that influence has permeated every aspect of Israeli society from the design of bathing suits to scientific, high-tech instruments. As Israel turns 60, some 250,000 Holocaust survivors still lve in the state.',700,700);)
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![](javascript:doblowup('Burning Hametz - III','/images/uploaded/up_XDl7TN.jpg','Ultra-Orthodox Jews dance near a fire burning food items containing leavening or "Hametz" in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem on 18 April 2008 as Jewish households burn the leftover leavening prior to the start of the high holiday of Passover, commemorating the Israelites exodus from Egypt.',700,700);)
![](javascript:doblowup('Burning Hametz-II','/images/uploaded/up_8nlc7n.jpg','A girl swings high in a playground as ultra-Orthodox Jews recite prayers and throw food products containing leavening or "Hametz" into fires in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem on 18 April 2008. Jewish households burn their leavening left over after cleaning their homes before the onset of the high Jewish Passover holiday. Passover, which commemorates the Israelites exodus from Egypt, begins tomorrow night with the \'Seder,\' dinner, and Jews refrain from eating products containing leavening, such as bread, whiskey, and cakes, for the coming week.',700,700);)
![](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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