Highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.
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Pictures of the Week
Highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.
Miss Trans Israel
Photos by Oded Balilty Contenders in Israel’s first transgender pageant polished their moves and competed in “Miss Trans Israel.”
Pictures of the Week
Highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.
Purim in Israel
Photos by Oded Balilty & Ariel Schalit The Jewish holiday of Purim commemorates the Jews’ salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Book of Esther.
A Traditional Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Wedding
Photos by Oded Balilty The marriage ceremony is perhaps the greatest highlight in the life of an ultra-Orthodox Jew. And when it comes to the community’s most prominent members, it turns into a public spectacle.
Deep in Israel Desert, Shimmering Glass Mountains
Photos by Oded Balilty Deep in the heart of Israel’s desert, shimmering mountains of glass dominate the landscape.
10 Years on, AP Photographer Remembers Pulitzer Moment
Ten years ago today, AP photographer Oded Balilty captured the powerful image of a Jewish settler woman defying Israeli soldiers as they forcibly removed her from a West Bank settlement.
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Israel’s Healing Horses
Photos by Oded Balilty At Israel’s main equine hospital, the animals can be wild patients, creating some unique challenges for the veterinarians treating them.
Israel Fashion Week Displays Talent Amid Tensions
Photos by Oded Balilty This year’s Tel Aviv fashion week showcased local talent to international fashionistas even as a rash of deadly violence had Israel on edge.
Daily Life Around the World
AP’s Daily Life series is a visual exploration of imagery from around the globe.
AP Photographers Featured at The Fence Exhibit
The work of three AP photographers — Oded Balilty, Muhammed Muheisen and Maye-E Wong — are on display in Atlanta, Boston, Brooklyn and Houston as part of The Fence exhibit.
History Buffs Re-enact Holy Land Crusader Battle
Photos by Oded Balilty The year is 1187 and the crusader kingdom of Jerusalem is beginning to collapse. At the Battle of Hattin, sword-wielding soldiers on horseback chant in Arabic, looking to behead their Christian targets.
AP Photographers Honored with NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism Awards
The National Press Photographers Association announced this week the results for its annual Best of Photojournalism contest and several AP photographers were awarded prizes.
For Israeli Teens, Military is Rite of Passage
Photos by Oded Balilty Israeli high school seniors have more on their minds than prom and final exams.
Daily Life Roundup
For this week’s installment of AP’s Daily Life series, we feature photography from all over the world: A man lights a controlled fire in a pasture near Lawrence, Kansas, a Pakistani girl crosses a stream in a suburb of Islamabad, and a fisherman throws his line under a bridge during a foggy morning in Lisbon.
March 10, 2015
Worldview: Israel Daily Life
For this installment of Worldview: Daily Life, we focus on Israel.
Hanukkah in Israel
Hanukkah, also known as the festival of lights, is an eight-day Jewish holiday that commemorates the Jewish uprising in the second century B.C. against the Greek-Syrian kingdom. Today marks the eighth day of Hanukkah when the last candle will be lit on the menorah.
October 22, 2014
Daily Life Roundup: Oct. 22, 2014
For this week’s installment of AP’s Daily Life series, we feature captivating photography from all over the world: A cyclist rides along Forbidden Drive in Philadelphia, Palestinian school children walk through destroyed houses in Gaza City, and A Portuguese fisherman pulls a net out of the sea on the Caparica coast.
Israel Desert Ablaze With ‘Burning Man’
Photos by Oded Balilty For the Bedouin Arab shepherds tending their flocks in Israel’s Negev desert last week, it was almost as if aliens had landed from outer space.
