At sea, off Jaffa beach.

2013 Rosh Hashanah eve. Among the thousands crowding in Uman, the Ukraine, to celebrate the beginning of the new year, the birthday of the first man, and the memory of Rabbi Nahman; a grandfather, father and son playing with a plastic gun, on the river bank where later the Tashlich ceremony will be held.

A religious Jew who turned his car into his home, reading from the Torah on Shushan Purim. The Bukharin neighborhood, Jerusalem.

Waste Bank - in the garbage dump near Kfar Yatta (the West Bank), young people live in temporary dwellings that they made out of the refuse left by the nearby settlements and the city of Hebron. Most of them are illiterate and some are mentally disabled. All through the day and night they collect metal and other objects that can be recycled and sell them for a few shekels. They spread out pipes under the garbage heaps through which they produce natural gas that serves them for cooking and heating in the winter.

At the end of the 1970s the IDF announced that a 30 thousand dunam area, south of Har Hebron, which is home to 12 communities, would become a closed military zone. This was to be firing zone 918. In 1999, contrary to international law, the army expelled some of the Bedouins and Palestinian inhabitants, despite the fact that their communities had been living there prior to 1967. After submitting a petition to the Supreme Court some of the inhabitants returned to their land, where they live under grueling conditions. They suffer from a lack of infrastructure, a water shortage and harassment on the part of the settlers in the region. The decision on the future of the area is still unclear after a petition was submitted to the Supreme Court.

In July 2010, policemen, with the aid of helicopters and bulldozers, began demolishing the unrecognized Bedouin village of El-Arakiv (north of Beersheba), in order to evacuate it. The inhabitants refused to leave and rebuilt their homes. In the three years that have elapsed since then 50 attempts have been made to demolish the village and empty it of its inhabitants. After every demolition operation the inhabitants return to build their homes and their children return to the football field. The adamant battle in El- Arakiv is now joining hands with the opposition to the Praver Bill.

A tank carrier at a filling station near the Israel-Gaza border during the Operation Pillar of Defense. The operation took 8 days, in the course of which 167 Palestinians were killed (87 of them civilians), and 4 Israeli citizens.

The Atarim Square in Tel Aviv near the beach, on a particularly stormy winter’s day.

Over the three days of Eid al-Fitr, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living in the West Bank were allowed to enter Israel. Tens of thousands of them chose the beach between Tel Aviv and Jaffa as their preferred spot to spend leisure time. For those living beyond the Separation Wall, this was their first and perhaps only visit to the beach. The three days of the vacation gave the Palestinians a one-time glimpse of life within the borders of Israel, and the Israelis - an example of co-existence in a shared region.

On the day the Jewish Agency declared the completion of the Kanfei Yona Operation with the immigration of 450 Ethiopians to Israel, members of the Falash Mura community demonstrated in front the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, waving photographs of their beloved ones who remained in Gundar, and called upon him not to abandon their brethren.