Photo by Yehuda Weinberg/TPS on 15 August, 2023

2023: Israel’s Year in Photos

Human Interest By Pesach Benson • 31 December, 2023

Jerusalem, 31 December, 2023 (TPS) -- As 2023 comes to an end, here is a selection of some of the year’s most memorable photos taken by the Tazpit Press Service’s photographers.

 

IDF troops ready for entry to the Gaza Strip

Israeli troops in an assembly area near the Gaza border on Nov. 13, 2023. Photo by Eitan Elhadez-Barak/TPS

 

heat wave

Children play in a Jerusalem water park during a heat wave on July 12, 2023. Photo by Kobi Natan/TPS

 

Hostage Square

Teddy bears in Tel Aviv’s “Hostage Square” on Oct. 25, 2023, placed in solidarity with Israelis held captive by Hamas in Gaza. Photo by Gideon Markowicz/TPS

 

Western Wall notes

Ahead of the High Holidays, workers from the Western Wall Heritage Foundation cleaned out thousands of notes to God left in in the Western Wall on Sept. 9. 2023. The notes were then buried in a cemetery. Photo by Yoav Dudkevtich/TPS

 

Muslim girls

Muslim girls study the Koran during a summer camp at a mosque in Gaza City on June 13, 2023. Photo by Majdi Fathi/TPS

 

star trails

Star trails dance over the vineyards of Moshav Ramat Magshimim in the Golan Heights during the grape harvest on Aug. 14, 2023. Photo by Yehuda Weinberg/TPS

 

storks

A family of storks nesting in the Golan Heights, northern Israel on June 27, 2023. Photo by Meni Tzuberi/TPS

 

judicial reform protests

Israelis protest against the government’s controversial judicial reform initiative in Tel Aviv on July 11, 2023. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/TPS

 

Israel Space Week

Children at Jerusalem’s Bloomfield Science Museum during a “Space Fair” on Feb. 1, 2023. Photo by Shalev Shalom/TPS

 

Rabbi Gershon Edelstein funeral

Thousands of Orthodox men return to Jerusalem following the funeral of spiritual leader Rabbi Gershon Edelstein in Bnei Brak on May 30, 2023. Photo by Omer Savir/TPS

 

Chanukah

Israeli soldiers in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis light Chanukah candles on Dec. 12, 2023. Photo by TPS