Judaism

Lag B’Omer

A firefighter extinguishes a fire in Jerusalem as Israelis celebrated the holiday of Lag B'Omer with bonfires on May 8, 2023. Photo by Yoav Dudkevitch/TPS

yeshiva

Haredi students studying in the Ateret Shlomo Yeshiva of Rishon LeZion on Dec. 2, 2024. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/TPS-IL

Lighting the seventh candle of Hanukkah in Mea Shearim Haredi neighborhood

Ultra-Orthodox Jews light the seventh candle of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah in the Haredi neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem. Jerusalem, Dec 13, 2023. Photo by Eitan Elhadez-Barak/TPS

Lighting the seventh candle of Hanukkah in Mea Shearim Haredi neighborhood

Ultra-Orthodox Jews light the seventh candle of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah in the Haredi neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem. Jerusalem, Dec 13, 2023. Photo by Eitan Elhadez-Barak/TPS

Temple Mount

Jews visit the Temple Mount on Tisha B'Av, a holiday marking the anniversary of the destruction of the First and Second Temples, on Aug. 13, 2024. Photo by TPS-IL

Tisha B’Av 2024 in Jerusalem

Thousands of Jews arrived on Tisha B'Av eve at the Western Wall Plaza in the Old City of Jerusalem to read the Book of Lamentations on the ninth day of the month of Av in the Hebraic calendar. The fast of Tisha B'Av mourns the destruction of the two Temples by the Babylonians and by the Romans throughout Jewish history. Jerusalem, Aug 12, 2024. ...

Tisha B’Av in Jerusalem

Thousands of Jews pray at the Western Wall on the night of Tisha B'Av on Aug. 12, 2024. Tisha B'Av marks the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av when both the First and Second Temples were destroyed. Photo by Eitan Elhadez-Barak/TPS-IL

Tisha B’Av 2023 in Jerusalem

Jews arrive at the Southern Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem to read the Book of Lamentations on Tisha B'Av, the ninth day of the month of Av in the Hebraic calendar. The fast of Tisha B'Av mourns the destruction of the two Temples by the Babylonians and by the Romans throughout Jewish history. Jerusalem, Jul 26, 2023. Photo by Eitan ...

Prayer at Joshua Ben Nun and Caleb Ben Yefuneh tombs

An Israeli border policewoman secures the area around the tombs of biblical figures Joshua Ben Nun and Caleb Ben Yefuneh, in the Arab village Kifl Hares near Ariel, as Jews arrive for a prayer on tenth of Tevet, a Jewish fast day on June 1, 2020. Photo by Yehonatan Valtser/TPS

Shavuot in Kibbutz Yehiam

The festival in Kibbutz Yehiam in northern Israel for the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, which marks the wheat harvest in Israel and the day when God gave the Torah to the nation of Israel at Mount Sinai. Yehiam, May 17, 2021. Photo by Sara Yahimovich/TPS