Zoya Cherkassky Exhibits 'Pravda' at Israel Museum

Jerusalem, Israel. 21st April, 2018. Acclaimed Israeli artist Zoya Cherkassky exhibits Pravda in a first solo exhibition including some 50 paintings and 50 works on paper at the Israel Museum. Pravda focuses on Cherkassky's paintings addressing her personal experiences and the collective experience of the million strong Russian immigrant influx to Israel in the early 1990s. Cherkassky was born in 1976 in Kiev and immigrated with her family to Israel in 1991.

Memorial Day Commemorated in Jerusalem, Israel

Jerusalem, Israel. 18th April, 2018. An Israeli Navy officer pays respects at the INS Dakar Memorial Monument in the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery. The Dakar, a World War II British submarine, purchased by Israel in 1965, was lost en route to Israel on 25 January 1968 with her entire 69 man crew. Families, friends and comrades in arms pay respects and mourn the fallen at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery on Memorial Day, Yom Hazikaron for Israel’s fallen servicemen and victims of terror attacks, commemorating 23,646 fallen.

Israel Prepares to Celebrate Independence

Jerusalem, Israel. 17th April, 2018. The Israel Air Force rehearses for the Independence Day airshow flying over the Greek Orthodox Monastery of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem. Israel will celebrate its 70th Day of Independence 19th April, 2018. The monastery, consecrated in the 4th century under Constantine the Great, built in the 11th century, traditionally erected on the burial spot of Adam's head, enshrines an ancient tradition that pine, fir and cypress branches planted by Lot, grew miraculously into one tree (Isaiah 60:13). It is this tree from which the cross of Jesus was made.

Memorial Day Preparations in Jerusalem, Israel

Jerusalem, Israel. 16th April, 2018. IDF soldiers place Israeli flags with black ribbons on each of the graves and salute the fallen at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery ahead of Memorial Day, Yom Hazikaron, for Israel’s fallen servicemen and victims of terror attacks. Memorial day will be marked 18th April, 2018.

Beit Jamal is a Catholic monastery run by Salesian monks near Beit Shemesh, Israel. The site is identified with the Byzantine town of Caphargamala or Kfar Gamla and it is largely accepted that in Byzantine times this was considered to be the burial site of St. Stephen, Rabbi Gamaliel, Nicodemus and Gamaliel's son Abibos. The St. Stephen's Church was built in 1930 on the ruins of a 5th century Byzantine church discovered on the site in 1916. The monastery produces and markets its own honey, olive oil and wine and has a small shop that offers its produce.

Passover 2018 Preparations in Jerusalem, Israel

Jerusalem, Israel. 28th March, 2018. A woman enters an alleyway in a section of the Nachlaot neighborhood in Jerusalem besides a sign forbidding women's entrance unless dressed modestly.

Passover 2018 Preparations in Jerusalem, Israel

Jerusalem, Israel. 28th March, 2018. An elderly woman reads a Hebrew newspaper.

Passover 2018 Preparations in Jerusalem, Israel

Jerusalem, Israel. 28th March, 2018. A dead dove lies on the sidewalk in the Nachlaot neighborhood in Jerusalem.

Passover 2018 Preparations in Jerusalem, Israel

Jerusalem, Israel. 28th March, 2018. An ultra Orthodox Jewish man walks past mannequins displaying women's head dressing.

Palm Sunday 2018 in Jerusalem, Israel

Jerusalem, Israel. 25th March, 2018. Christian worshipers partake in Palm Sunday processions and prayer at the Church of The Holy Sepulchre.

Daily Life in Israel

Jerusalem, Israel. 26th February, 2018. An IDF soldier in uniform carries an M16 rifle and a shopping bag decorated with an Israeli flag.

Palm Sunday 2018 in Jerusalem, Israel

Jerusalem, Israel. 25th March, 2018. Christian worshipers partake in Palm Sunday processions and prayer at the Church of The Holy Sepulchre.

Palm Sunday 2018 in Jerusalem, Israel

Jerusalem, Israel. 25th March, 2018. Christian worshipers partake in Palm Sunday processions and prayer at the Church of The Holy Sepulchre.

Practicing Aikido in Jerusalem, Israel

Jerusalem, Israel. 15th March, 2018. Sensei ITZIK ASLAN (black bottoms), 4th Dan, conducts an Aikido class in his dojo in Jerusalem. Aikido is a Japanese martial art aspiring to resolve conflicts and self defense without harming the attacker, developed by Morihei Ueshiba it became a distinct and unique martial art in 1942.

Ethiopian Israelis Demonstrate in Jerusalem, Israel

Jerusalem, Israel. 12th March, 2018. Ethiopian Israelis demonstrate outside the Knesset, Israel's parliament. Holding photos of loved ones still stranded in Ethiopia they demand government fulfills a pledge to bring to Israel remaining 8,000 Ethiopian Jews waiting to immigrate. The Ethiopian Jewish community, called Beta Israel, lived in seclusion for over 1,000 years, only reconnecting to the Jewish world in the late 20th century.

Practicing Aikido in Jerusalem, Israel

Jerusalem, Israel. 15th March, 2018. Sensei DANIEL HERMAN (glasses), 5th Dan, and Sensei ITZIK ASLAN, 4th Dan, demonstrate techniques to students in an Aikido class in Jerusalem. Aikido is a Japanese martial art aspiring to resolve conflicts and self defense without harming the attacker, developed by Morihei Ueshiba it became a distinct and unique martial art in 1942.

Ethiopian Israelis Demonstrate in Jerusalem, Israel

Jerusalem, Israel. 12th March, 2018. Ethiopian Israelis demonstrate outside the Knesset, Israel's parliament. Holding photos of loved ones still stranded in Ethiopia they demand government fulfills a pledge to bring to Israel remaining 8,000 Ethiopian Jews waiting to immigrate. The Ethiopian Jewish community, called Beta Israel, lived in seclusion for over 1,000 years, only reconnecting to the Jewish world in the late 20th century.

Ultra Orthodox Jews Protest Draft in Jerusalem,Israel

Jerusalem, Israel. 8th March, 2018. Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest military conscription and the arrest by military police of draft dodgers, blocking the main entrance to Jerusalem, Israel's capital city. In fact, the ultra-Orthodox haredi draft candidates can report to the IDF recruitment office, declare their faith and be exempt from service but some refuse to do so in principal.