Nir > Stock photo of the 15th Maccabiah Memorial Bridge erected in 2005 in memory of the tragic deaths of Greg Small, Yetty Bennett, Elizabeth Sawicki and Warren Zines, four Australian athletes, participants of the Maccabiah, in 1997. The Maccabiah is an international Jewish athletic event similar to the Olympics, taking place in Israel every four years. The 1997 Maccabiah Games were marred by the collapse of a bridge immediately before the opening ceremony, causing some athletes to fall into the highly-polluted Yarkon River. On the bridge at the time were athletes marching to enter the Ramat Gan Stadium in Tel Aviv. Shot December 2006.
Nir > Stock photo of the 15th Maccabiah Memorial Bridge erected in 2005 in memory of the tragic deaths of Greg Small, Yetty Bennett, Elizabeth Sawicki and Warren Zines, four Australian athletes, participants of the Maccabiah, in 1997. The Maccabiah is an international Jewish athletic event similar to the Olympics, taking place in Israel every four years. The 1997 Maccabiah Games were marred by the collapse of a bridge immediately before the opening ceremony, causing some athletes to fall into the highly-polluted Yarkon River. On the bridge at the time were athletes marching to enter the Ramat Gan Stadium in Tel Aviv. Shot December 2006.
Nir > Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights is an eight-day Jewish holiday observed in Jewish homes by the kindling of lights on each of the festival's eight nights, one on the first night, two on the second, and so on. The holiday marks the re-dedication of the Temple after its desecration under Antiochus IV. Hanukkah commemorates the Miracle of the Oilthat occured at the re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem following the victory of the Maccabees over the Seleucid Empire, there was only enough consecrated olive oil to fuel the eternal flame in the Temple for one day. Miraculously, the oil burned for eight days. Shot December 2006 in Jerusalem Israel.
Stock photo of the 15th Maccabiah Memorial Bridge erected in 2005 in memory of the tragic deaths of Greg Small, Yetty Bennett, Elizabeth Sawicki and Warren Zines, four Australian athletes, participants of the Maccabiah, in 1997. The Maccabiah is an international Jewish athletic event similar to the Olympics, taking place in Israel every four years. The 1997 Maccabiah Games were marred by the collapse of a bridge immediately before the opening ceremony, causing some athletes to fall into the highly-polluted Yarkon River. On the bridge at the time were athletes marching to enter the Ramat Gan Stadium in Tel Aviv. Shot December 2006.
Nir > Stock photo of the 15th Maccabiah Memorial Bridge erected in 2005 in memory of the tragic deaths of Greg Small, Yetty Bennett, Elizabeth Sawicki and Warren Zines, four Australian athletes, participants of the Maccabiah, in 1997. The Maccabiah is an international Jewish athletic event similar to the Olympics, taking place in Israel every four years. The 1997 Maccabiah Games were marred by the collapse of a bridge immediately before the opening ceremony, causing some athletes to fall into the highly-polluted Yarkon River. On the bridge at the time were athletes marching to enter the Ramat Gan Stadium in Tel Aviv. Shot December 2006.
Stock photo of the 15th Maccabiah Memorial Bridge erected in 2005 in memory of the tragic deaths of Greg Small, Yetty Bennett, Elizabeth Sawicki and Warren Zines, four Australian athletes, participants of the Maccabiah, in 1997. The Maccabiah is an international Jewish athletic event similar to the Olympics, taking place in Israel every four years. The 1997 Maccabiah Games were marred by the collapse of a bridge immediately before the opening ceremony, causing some athletes to fall into the highly-polluted Yarkon River. On the bridge at the time were athletes marching to enter the Ramat Gan Stadium in Tel Aviv. Shot December 2006.
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