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    Holocaust survivors celebrate belated bar mitzvah

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    Holocaust survivors wearing 'Talit' (prayer shawls) and 'Tefilin' (phylacteries), sit in a synagogue during a Bar Mitzvah ceremony on May 17, 2012 in Ashkelon, Israel.

    Six Holocaust survivors who were unable as children to celebrate the bar mitzvah, the Jewish rite of passage that marks a boy's 13th birthday, were finally able to mark their coming of age in a ceremony in the Israeli city of Ashkelon on Thursday.

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    David Buimovitch / AFP - Getty Images

    A Holocaust survivor whose number tattoo is still visible puts on the 'Tefilin' during the ceremony.

     

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    Mazel Tov!

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  • 15
    May
    2012
    8:36am, EDT

    Palestinians clash with Israeli police during Nakba protests

    Menahem Kahana / AFP - Getty Images

    Palestinian women scuffle with Israeli policemen as they try to stop them from arresting a relative in the east Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Issawiya on May 15, 2012, as Palestinians took to the streets to mark Nakba day.

    Palestinians held a series of events and protests Tuesday to mark the Nakba ("catastrophe") of Israel's founding in a 1948 war, when hundreds of thousands of their brethren fled or were forced to leave their homes.

    On Monday, a Palestinian official said a deal had been reached with Israel to end a weeks-long high-profile hunger strike by hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. Read an analysis of the background to the hunger strikes by NBC News correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin.

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    Ammar Awad / Reuters

    A Palestinian suspected of throwing stones is detained by undercover Israeli police officers in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Issawiya May 15, 2012.

    Mohamad Torokman / Reuters

    A boy holds up a door key as Palestinians take part in a rally marking Nakba in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 15, 2012.

    Abir Sultan / EPA

    A Palestinian youth shoots fireworks at Israeli policemen in the east Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Issawiya on May 15, 2012.

    Ahmad Gharabli / AFP - Getty Images

    Israeli riot policemen arrest a Palestinian boy in the east Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Issawiya on May 15, 2012.

    Mohammed Abed / AFP - Getty Images

    The head of Gaza's Hamas government, Ismail Haniya (blue polo shirt), takes part in a marathon in Gaza City on May 15, 2012 to mark Nakba day.

     

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    Jerusalem is the Capital of the Jewish State. Jerusalem pre-dates Islam, Christianity, Alexander and Caesar. The Arabs had a chance for peace in 1948. They gambled, and they lost. Now, they need to try peace for a change. Israel abandoned Gaza. "Land for Peace".

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  • 11
    May
    2012
    7:58am, EDT

    Ammar Awad / Reuters

    Samaritan community mark Passover with mountain pilgrimage

    A man and child, members of the Samaritan sect, rest during a traditional pilgrimage marking the holiday of Passover atop Mount Gerizim near the West Bank city of Nablus, early on the morning of May 11, 2012. The Samaritans, who trace their roots to the biblical Kingdom of Israel in what is now the northern occupied West Bank, observe religious practices similar to those of Judaism.

    See more pictures of the Samaritan community on PhotoBlog.

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  • 10
    May
    2012
    7:52am, EDT

    Orthodox Jews celebrate Lag Ba'omer in Israel and New York

    Oded Balilty / AP

    Ultra-Orthodox Jews stand next to bonfires during Lag Ba'omer celebrations to commemorate the end of a plague said to have decimated Jews in Roman times, in Bnei Brak, Israel, on May 9, 2012.

    Reuters reports — Lag Ba'omer marks the end of a plague that killed thousands of Jewish scholars in ancient times, as well as the anniversary of the death of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, who had rebelled against Roman rule and is believed to be the author of the Zohar, the core text of Kabbalah mysticism. Holiday traditions include lighting bonfires and cutting the hair of three-year-old boys for the first time. 

    Previously on PhotoBlog:

    • Song, dance, costumes and wine at the Jewish festival of Purim
    • The wedding of Chananya and Nechama

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    Mike Segar / Reuters

    A young boy watches a bonfire burn as Orthodox Jews of the Satmar Hassidim dance and celebrate the Jewish holiday of Lag Ba'omer in the village of Kiryas Joel, Orange County, New York, on May 9, 2012.

    Ammar Awad / Reuters

    Ultra-Orthodox Jewish boys sit in front of girls and women as they look at a bonfire lit on the Jewish holiday of Lag Ba'omer in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood on May 9, 2012.

    Ariel Schalit / AP

    A man cuts a boy's hair next to the grave of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai during Lag Ba'omer celebrations at Mt. Meron in northern Israel, on May 10, 2012.

    Mike Segar / Reuters

    Men of the Orthodox Jewish Satmar Hassidim crowd the steps of a synagogue (backround) as women of the sect stand in a separate area (front) as they celebrate Lag Ba'omer in the village of Kiryas Joel, New York, on May 9, 2012.

    Nir Elias / Reuters

    An ultra-Orthodox woman prays during traditional festivities for Lag Ba'omer near the grave of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai on Mount Meron in northern Israel on May 10, 2012.

     

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    Very interesting. Thanks, cnn, for some coverage of a people that in fact HAS contributed greatly in a very positive way to the history and culture of the entire world.

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  • 10
    May
    2012
    4:51am, EDT

    Syria says dozens dead in twin Damascus blasts

    SANA via EPA

    Smoke rising from burning cars at the scene of two bomb blasts in Al Kazaz, a residential area in Damascus, Syria, on May 10, 2012.

    EDITOR'S NOTE: The images in this report were released by the state-controlled Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).

    Reuters reports — Two suicide car bombers killed 55 people and wounded 372 in Damascus on Thursday, state media said, in the deadliest attacks in the Syrian capital since an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began 14 months ago.

    The blasts further shredded a ceasefire which was declared by international mediator Kofi Annan on April 12, but which has failed to halt bloodshed pitting Assad's security forces against peaceful demonstrators and an array of armed insurgents.

    Two huge explosions in quick succession shook the Syrian capital of Damascus today. The suicide car bombs killed at least 55 people and wounded over 370. ITN's Paul Davies reports.

    The U.S. Embassy in Beirut said the bombing was "reprehensible and unacceptable," but added that it would not change U.S. demands for the Syrian government to implement Annan's peace plan.

    Opposition leaders said Annan's peace plan was dead, while Western powers insisted it remained the best way forward.

    Annan himself condemned the "abhorrent" bombings and urged all parties to halt violence and protect civilians. "The Syrian people have already suffered too much," he said in a statement.

    Read the full story.

    Previously on PhotoBlog:

    • Syrian soldiers injured in explosion while escorting UN convoy
    • 7 killed as Red Cross and Arab League warn of civil war in Syria
    • Deadly bombs in Syria's Idlib target security
    • From the front line to the front page: Syria's image war

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    SANA via AP

    Two Syrian soldiers, left, and civilians carry a dead body after the explosions.

    The official news agency SANA said the two explosions had occurred in a densely populated area where employees and students were on their way to work and school.

    SANA via AP

    An injured man, right, pictured after the blasts.

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    And to think there idiots here running this Country who want us involved in this mess.........

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  • 9
    May
    2012
    8:22am, EDT

    Syrian soldiers injured in explosion while escorting UN convoy

    Louai Beshara / AFP - Getty Images

    Wounded Syrian soldiers react following a roadside bomb attack that targeted their convoy as they escorted UN peace observers in the restive city of Daraa, Syria on May 9, 2012.

    Louai Beshara / AFP - Getty Images

    A Syrian army truck escorts the UN convoy just before the roadside bomb attack.

    A roadside bomb hit a Syrian army convoy accompanying United Nations ceasefire observers in the southern province of Deraa on Wednesday, Reuters reports.

    Activists and state media said the blast hit vehicles accompanying the U.N. monitors tasked with observing the implementation of Kofi Annan's April 12 ceasefire deal.

    The pro-government Addounia television station said eight members of the security forces were wounded in the blast. It said the explosion happened in front of the U.N. observers, but there were no reports that any of them were hurt. Read the full story.

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    Muzaffar Salman / AP

    A wounded Syrian soldier is carried by another vehicle to a hospital in Daraa.

     

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  • 8
    May
    2012
    10:18am, EDT

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    A Syrian man shot while smuggling medicine over the Lebanese border is carried into a field hospital in Qusayr, nine miles from Homs, Syria, on May 7, 2012.

    7 killed as Red Cross and Arab League warn of civil war in Syria

    Reuters reports — Security forces killed at least seven people in fighting across Syria on Tuesday, activists said, in a 14-month-old revolt that the Red Cross and Arab League warned was becoming a civil war.

    Across Syria, clashes between state forces and rebels who have joined the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad raged overnight and flared again on Tuesday afternoon, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

    Syria holds elections; opposition denounces them as 'farce'

    Despite a shaky truce, the carnage in Syria has not stopped even as the government held a parliamentary poll a day earlier. Damascus promoted it as a milestone on its path to reform, but the opposition slammed the election as a sham and boycotted the vote. Read the full story.

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  • 4
    May
    2012
    8:24am, EDT

    'Proud of what I did': Brother of Israeli PM's assassin freed after 16 years

    Jack Guez / AFP - Getty Images

    Hagai Amir, the brother and key accomplice of the man who assassinated Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, flashes the victory sign as he leaves Ayalon prison in Ramla near Tel Aviv on May 4, 2012. Amir was freed from prison after serving 16 years in prison for complicity in the murder of Rabin, and another six months for death threats he made against former prime minster Ariel Sharon.

    Reuters reports — Hagai Amir, the brother of the man who assassinated late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, said he was proud of his own role in the murder plot after he was freed from prison on Friday.

    Amir was released after serving 16 years in prison. Yigal Amir, his brother, killed Rabin at a peace rally in Tel Aviv in 1995 and is serving a life sentence. He said he shot the politician to stop him from handing parts of what he believed were the biblical land of Israel to the Palestinians in peace negotiations.

    "I am not regretful. I am proud of what I did," Amir, an Israeli Jew, told reporters as family members whisked him into a car and drove away. Read the full story.

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    Oliver Weiken / EPA

    Dozens of left-wing demonstrates gathered at the prison in central Israel to protest the release. "We will not forget, we will not forgive," they chanted.

    Oliver Weiken / EPA

    Shlomo and Geula, the parents of Hagai and Yigal Amir, wait for their son to be released from prison on May 4, 2012.

    Nov. 12, 2005: A memorial was held in Israel marking the 10 years since the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. NBC's Preston Mendenhall reports.

     

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    Those extremist pricks who had a hand in the murdering of Prime Minister Rabin, should've been sentenced with the death penalty!!

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  • 30
    Apr
    2012
    7:53am, EDT

    Khaled Abdullah / Reuters

    Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration calling for Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh to be put on trial, in Sanaa on April 30, 2012.

    Gone, but not forgotten: Protesters demand Yemen's Saleh be put on trial

    Two months after Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh stepped down as part of a deal brokered by Arab Gulf countries and backed by the United States, protesters continue to demand that he be put on trial.

    The power-transfer deal gave Saleh immunity from prosecution in return for relinquishing power, although his party still holds half of all government ministries. He has also remained in the country instead of going into exile as was anticipated.

    -- The Associated Press contributed to this report

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  • 30
    Apr
    2012
    7:21am, EDT

    SANA via EPA

    EDITOR'S NOTE: Image released by the state-controlled Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). A damaged building and cars at a site hit by two suicide bombings in Idlib, Syria, on April 30, 2012. According to SANA the bombing killed at least eight people, wounded a hundred others and caused heavy damage. Activists said 20 people were killed and believe the blasts were set off by 'regime agents'.

    Deadly bombs in Syria's Idlib target security

    Reuters reports — At least eight people, mostly Syrian military personnel, were killed and about 100 wounded on Monday in bomb blasts at security buildings in Idlib, state media said, as a bombing campaign intensified against government targets.

    Twin explosions, the latest to disrupt a shaky U.N. truce, blew fronts off nearby buildings and left craters in roads, according to images on state television which showed people at the scene in the restive northwestern city condemning the rebels who are fighting to oust President Bashar al-Assad.

    From the front line to the front page: Syria's image war

    State television said both blasts were suicide bombings.

    A prominent human rights activist said they appeared to target local headquarters of intelligence services for the air force and the army, two of the many security agencies that have helped keep the Assad family in power for four decades. The activist at the British-based Syrian Observatory of Human Rights put the death toll at over 20. Read more.

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  • 25
    Apr
    2012
    7:57am, EDT

    Israel marks Memorial Day for its fallen soldiers

    Abir Sultan / EPA

    A man weeps as he grips a stone monument to fallen soldiers that carries the name of a close relative at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, Israel, on April 25, 2012.

    Tsafrir Abayov / AP

    Israeli soldiers stand still as a siren marks the annual Memorial Day for fallen Israeli soldiers, near the Israel border with the Gaza Strip, on April 24, 2012.

    Related content:

    • Israeli army chief says Iran unlikely to make bomb
    • Israelis stand in silent remembrance of Holocaust victims

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  • 19
    Apr
    2012
    6:52am, EDT

    Israelis stand in silent remembrance of Holocaust victims

    Gali Tibbon / AFP - Getty Images

    People observe two minutes of silence during the annual ceremony at the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem, Israel, marking the annual Holocaust remembrance day on April 19, 2012.

    The entire country of Israel came to a halt on Thursday when a siren sounded to mark Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day. 

    The day is one of the most solemn on Israel's calendar. Restaurants and places of entertainment shut down, and radio and TV programming focuses on Holocaust documentaries and interviews with survivors.

    -- The Associated Press and EPA contributed to this report

    Oded Balilty / AP

    Holocaust survivor Meir Friedman waits to tell his personal testimony to an audience of Israeli border police officers during a ceremony in the Martyr's forest near Moshav Kesalon, in central Israel, April 19, 2012.

    Oded Balilty / AP

    Meir Friedman, center right, tells his story to a group of Israeli border police officers on April 19, 2012.

    Jim Hollander / EPA

    A man's eyes wells up with tears as he and everyone in a car of the electric light tram system comes to a stop in Jerusalem when a siren sounds for two minutes, April 19, 2012, marking Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day.

    Sebastian Scheiner / AP

    Israelis stand still next to their cars on a highway as a two-minute siren sounds in memory of victims of the Holocaust in Jerusalem on April 19, 2012.

     

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    Remembrance Day- for those who were victims of the Holocaust- all the Jews who perished in KZ camps in Ausschwitz,Sobibor,Bergen-Belsen,Madjannuk, Theresien Stadt (when Red Cross visited the Potamkin KZ-shipped out afterwards) usw. All the Roma (Gypsies)-who will partake in ceremonies with Jews toda …

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