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This Israeli photo gallery contains all the pictures of the day from Israel. All images by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye
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An Israeli rescue and recovery drill in Kiryat ...
An Israeli rescue and recovery drill in Kiryat Malakhi on Monday Sep 1 2008. Today the IDF special rescue unit \'Shachar\
Date: September 2, 2008
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Israeli Children Back to School
Children are returning to school in Sderot, Israel to start the year overlooked by the Army with signs welcoming them on Monday September 1, 2008. Roughly 1.5 million Israeli children went back to school on Monday, as the start of the academic year went ahead with few disruptions. On the eve of back to school day, it emerged that a lack of security guards will leave the gates of one-third of Israeli schools unprotected. The difficulty in procuring security stems from low wages schools pay guards, who can easily receive more money at other establishments. Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye.
Date: September 1, 2008
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Schools Surrounding Gaza Open One Day Early
All schools in the surrounding Gaza strip region in Israel opened today for the first time this school year on Sunday August 31, 2008. The schools hope for a quiet year, free of Kassams and terror from Gaza strip. Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye.
Date: August 31, 2008
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Government too Busy with Primaries to Free Gila...
Hundreds of supporters gathered outside Suffa border crossing on Wednesday August 27, 2008 to celebrate Gilad Shalit\'s 22nd birthday tomorrow, his third in Hamas captivity. As hundreds gather outside Gaza crossing for first of several events marking grim milestone, Miki Goldwasser slams government inaction. Some 150 people gathered just outside the Gaza Strip on Wednesday evening to mark the 22nd birthday of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. It will be his third birthday spent in Hamas captivity. The event took place at the Suffa border crossing, where Palestinian gunmen abducted Shalit to Gaza on June 2006. Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye.
Date: August 27, 2008
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Israeli Leftist Arrested and Charged for Enteri...
American Israeli pro-Palestinian activist Jeff Halper was arrested in Sderot on Tuesday for illegally entering Hamas-ruled Gaza and is being taken to court on Wednesday August 27, 2008. Halper reached Gazan shores on Saturday with dozens of Free Gaza Movement activists on two boats aimed at \
Date: August 27, 2008
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Israel army (IDF) Search & Rescue Exercise
A search and rescue exercise took place on Tuesday 21 August 2006 .in coordination with the Turkish, American, and Israeli Air Forces in order to increase reaction speed in emergency situations in the sea. Photo by IDF Spokesperson/Chameleons Eye
Date: August 21, 2008
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Tzipi Livn Kadima Party
Tzipora Malka Tzipi Livni ?, born July 8, 1958 in Tel Aviv, Israel is Foreign Affairs Minister, Acting Prime Minister of Israel, and a leading member of the Kadima party.After the March 2006 Knesset election, Livni was described as the second most powerful politician in Israel. Livni is the second woman in Israel to hold the post of foreign minister, after Golda Meir. In 2007, she was included in the Time 100 Most Influential People in the World. Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye
Date: August 20, 2008
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Lunar Eclipse in Israel
The Earth\'s shadow falls on the Moon during a lunar eclipse in Israel on Sunday August 17, 2008. Middle East and northern Asia, Europe and northern America witnessed partial eclipse of the moon on the early morning of August 17. Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye.
Date: August 16, 2008
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Israel Gives 70 Million Dollars to the Palestin...
A Brinks security van from Israel is passing 70 million dollars through Erez crossing in Southern Israel on Tuesday morning, August 12, 2008 to the Palestinian Authority in Gaza Strip. The exchange came a day after a Kassam rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck the southern Israeli town of Sderot and a week after sporadic cross-border shelling and rocket launches broke the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas. Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye.
Date: August 12, 2008
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Rocket Fired from Gaza Strikes Sderot
A Kassam rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck the southern Israeli town of Sderot on Monday, August 11 2008 causing no damage or injuries, police sources said. The incident continues a pattern of sporadic cross-border shelling and rocket launches breaking the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas. The rocket landed right next to a home that was hit in the final rocket attack launched from the Strip before the truce went into effect in late June. There was no immediate claim of responsibility issued by any Palestinian group. Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye.
Date: August 11, 2008
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Former Settlers Marking Three Years to the Dise...
Thousands of former Israeli settlers from ex settlements of Gaza strip are marking three years to the disengagement near Kisufim pass on Wednesday August 6 2008. The settlers declared that soon they will return to Gaza strip and rebuild their destroyed homes and settlements. Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye.
Date: August 6, 2008
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A Palestinian Woman from Gaza Strip is giving a...
A Palestinian woman from Gaza Strip is giving labor to four babies in Barzilai Medical Center Ashkelon Israel on Wednesday August 6 2008. The Palestinian woman named Helwah (Means: Pretty in Arabic) arrived to the medical center in Israel two months ago in purpose to receive a special medical treatment to delay an early labor of the four babies. As time passed, her charming personality created a close relationship between her and the Israel medical team and as her husband could not get out from Gaza strip because of the security problem on the border she found comfort, love and care from the Israelis. A few days ago a risk to her pregnancy was found as toxic had been developing and the head of obstetrics and gynecology department Prof. Eyal Antebi decided to operate Helwah immediately and to take out the four babies. Today in an emergency surgery, the medical team delivered successfully all four babies, two boys and two girls safely. Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye.
Date: August 6, 2008
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NBA Player Jordan Farmar Visits Israeli and Pal...
Jordan Farmer, NBA Lakers player is helping to create peace between Israeli and Palestinian children through teaching them to play basketball in Kiryat Gat on Tuesday August 5th, 2008. The meeting was organised by the Peres Center for Peace which is a non-profit organization with the vision of bringing people together and to bring peace in the Middle East through interaction, cooperation and development. Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye.
Date: August 5, 2008
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Israel Transfers Fatah Refugees to West Bank
Fatah refugees in Israel are being transferred to Jericho in Erez crossing on Monday August 4, 2008. The Defense Ministry and the Palestinian Authority decided late Monday morning to transfer to Jericho the Fatah refugees who were still in Israel after fleeing Saturday\'s fierce fighting with Hamas in Gaza. The activists include members of the Hilles clan, some of the 188 Palestinian who escaped into Israel following a series of clashes with Hamas which left 11 people dead. The refugees will be granted temporary asylum in the West Bank city of Jericho, despite initial plans to transfer them to Ramallah. Israel originally admitted the men following a request from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, on the understanding that they would be sent on to the West Bank. Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye.
Date: August 4, 2008
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Hamas Arrests Returning Fatah Men from Israel t...
Injured Fatah men rest in Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon, Israel after being evacuated to Israel yesterday after bloody clashes in the Gaza Strip on Sunday August 3, 2008 in Ashkelon, Israel. Nine Palestinians were killed - including members of Hamas\'s security forces - and more than 90 were wounded in Saturday\'s fighting in Gaza City. Hamas confirmed it arrested the first group of 32 who were sent back to Gaza on Sunday. Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye.
Date: August 3, 2008
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French Israeli Immigrants Hold Protest Calling ...
A group of 200 French Israeli immigrants to Israel turned up on Ashkelon beach, Israel on Sunday August 3, 2008 to face Gaza Strip and protest, calling for the release of kidnapped French-Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit who has been held by Hamas in Gaza strip for 755 days. Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye.
Date: August 3, 2008
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150 Fatah Men Enter Israel After fleeing Gaza V...
Injured Fatah men are fleeing into Israel with the help of Israel\'s Defense Force and emergency services after bloody clashes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday August 2, 2008 in Nachal Oz, Israel. Over 150 loyalists of the Fatah-linked Hilles clan fled the Gaza Strip on Saturday and entered Israel, after bloody day-long battle of clashes with the ruling Hamas operatives in the Gaza Strip, had left at least four people dead and more than 80 wounded. In a humanitarian move, the Hilles clan members were allowed through the Erez and Nahal Oz border crossings between Gaza and Israel, some of them wounded, and some carrying guns, while Hamas gunmen followed and fired at them and shot mortar shells in their direction. Twelve of the wounded were children, hospital officials said, and eight people were in critical condition. Loud explosions and gunfire could be heard throughout the day across Gaza City. Hamas said its forces had arrested 15 people, including 10 who had tried to flee disguised as women, and confiscated weapons. Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye.
Date: August 2, 2008
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Three Years Since the Disengagement
Evacuated families at the temporary housing project for Gaza Strip evacuees are living with an uncertain future on Wednesday July 30, 2008 in Nitzan Settlement, Israel. Three years after the disengagement from Gaza, a survey shows 81% of the evacuees are still living in temporary housing and 50% are still unemployed. The trailer parks now house the evacuees will remain in use for at least five years, instead of the two years that the government intended. About half sense a drop in their physical health directly related to the Disengagement - including depression, sleeplessness, fears and various sicknesses. Over half - 55% - have required psychological help during the last three years. Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye.
Date: July 30, 2008
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Israel Prime Minister Will Step Down from Office
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert held a special press conference on Wednesday at 8 p.m. where he announced he will not run in the Kadima primary scheduled to take place in September. Olmert said he would resign from office upon selection of a successor, and would allow his successor to attempt to form a coalition. The prime minister has been under official criminal investigation in recent months over allegations of corruption in his former capacities as Jerusalem mayor and trade minister. Political sources had expected Olmert to announce that he would not run in upcoming leadership contest in his Kadima party, scheduled for September 17. This decision in effect signals an end to Olmert\'s political career. Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye. (File Photo)
Date: February 28, 2006
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Obama Reassures the Safety of Israel
Minister of Israeli Defense Ehud Barak, Mayor of Sderot Eli Moyal and American Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama are holding up a t-shirt reading \
Date: July 23, 2008
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210 Passengers make Successful Aliyah (Immigra...
210 North American olim (new immigrants) immigrated to Israel landing in Ben Gurion Airport, Tel-Aviv Israel on Tuesday July 22, 2008. This flight brought 210 new immigrants from North America. The oldest immigrant, Frances Greenberg, an 88 years old who made successful immigration to israel after 60 years of exodus and the youngest 3 months old. More than 2,000 North American and British Jews are expected to immigrate to Israel on five specially-chartered and eight group immigration flights. Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye.
Date: July 22, 2008
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Second Bulldozer Terror Rampage in Jerusalem
Sixteen people were wounded, one of them moderately, as a bulldozer driver went on a rampage in central Jerusalem on Tuesday July 22, 2008 in an apparent attempt to recreate the terror attack in the capital earlier this month. The vehicle left a construction site near Yemin Moshe neighborhood and set off towards Liberty Bell Park. It drove a distance of approximately 160 meters, attempting to overturn a bus and crashing into four other vehicles - one of which it flipped over. The man was then shot dead by a civilian and a border policeman. The wounded were evacuated to hospitals in the capital. The attack took place in a busy part of downtown Jerusalem, several hundred meters from the luxury hotel where US presidential candidate Barack Obama is supposed to stay Tuesday night as he kicks off a visit to Israel. The bus that was hit, No. 13, was of the same line of the one that was overturned in the previous attack. Photo by Zaka/Chameleons Eye.
Date: July 22, 2008
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Homecoming: Two Israeli Soldiers
Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser\'s coffins, moments after Hizbullah turned them over to the Red Cross. Kidnapped troops return in coffins from Lebanon on Wednesday 16 July 2008.Abduction affair which ignited Second Lebanon War comes to its tragic end as bodies of Eldad Regev, Ehud Goldwasser transferred to Israel, undergo final identification. Earlier, Samir Kuntar, four other Lebanese prisoners leave Israeli prison, arrive at IDF base in northern Israel before being returned to LebanonPhoto by IDF Spokesperson/Chameleons Eye
Date: July 20, 2008
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Bahai Shrines in Israel Chosen as World Heritag...
The Bahai Temple and gardens in Haifa, Israel on Monday July 14, 2008. The resting places of Baha\'u\'llah and the Bab in Acre and nearby Haifa, Israel have been designated World Heritage sites by UNESCO on July 8, 2008. Considered the two most sacred sites for Baha\'is, the shrines of the founders of the Baha\'i Faith. The shrines are noteworthy for the formal gardens that surround them, blending design elements from many cultures. In addition to Baha\'i pilgrims, they attract hundreds of thousands of visitors and tourists every year. Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye.
Date: July 14, 2008
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Water Shortage in Israel
Watering grass with valuable drinking water in Israel on Friday July 11, 2008. Israel is suffering its greatest drought in the past decade and will have to stop pumping from one of its main drinking water sources by the end of the summer. Israel has to stop pumping from the Sea of Galilee Ñ the source of about 40 percent of its drinking water Ñ it will have to step up extraction from already-depleted aquifers, underground water-bearing seams of rock. Israel\'s water problem stems from population growth and an improvement in quality of life that brings a greater desire to water lawns and gardens. This winter was the fourth that Israel received less than average rainfall, with only about 50-60 percent of the average in most areas. Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye.
Date: July 8, 2008
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The 23rd Folklore International Festival in Israel
The 23rd folklore international festival in Israel held in Ashkelon, Israel on Friday July 11, 2008. Among the participant dance groups that we invited from all over the world - Russia, Poland, Romania, Brazil, Greece, Serbia, Gruzia and Israel attended. There were thousands of spectators form all over Israel. Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye.
Date: July 10, 2008
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Wedding Room - Please Wait
Every year over 5,000 Israeli couples fly to the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, just a 55 minute plane trip to validate their relationship with a civil marriage ceremony. In Israel, the ultra-Orthodox rabbinical authorities exercise State-sanctioned control over family law and Jewish life cycle events; the only legal conversions, marriages, and divorces for Jewish citizens are those conducted by the Orthodox Rabbinate so many Israeli couples prefer or are forced to perform a civil marriage overseas and Cyprus is popular because of its proximity... Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye.
Date: June 27, 2008
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Israel Allows Goods Including Cement into Gaza
Supplies of concrete are ready to be passed through Sufa crossing to Gaza strip on Wednesday July 2, 2008. The State of Israel opened Sufa crossing allowing supplies of fuel, wheat, animal feed and dry cement into Gaza Strip, in accordance with ceasefire agreement. Israel allowed cement into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday for the first time in a year as crossings with the Palestinian territory reopened in accordance with the ceasefire agreement with Hamas. Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye.
Date: July 2, 2008
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NEW INTEL PLANT OPENS IN KIRYAT GAT
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert cuts the ribbon at the opening of Intel\'s new $5 billion Fab 28 chip plant in Kiryat Gat, in Southern Israel on Tuesday July 1, 2008. Intel\'s new plant - which will be the most advanced of its kind in the world opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony and was in the presence of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Israel\'s Industry and Trade Minister Eli Yishai. Fab 28, being constructed just next to Fab 18, will be the second Intel second plant able to build 45 nanometer circuitry processors. Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye.
Date: July 1, 2008
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Opening of Road 6 in Israel
The opening of the Southern part of road number 6 connection to intersection Maachaz attended by Minister of Transportation and Road Safety Shaul Mofaz on Tuesday July 1, 2008. The opening was attended by the five club (moadon hachamesh) for collector cars and the museum of warriors of the negev. The opening of the part of road no. 6 creates a connection allowing a faster and easier drive from Northern Israel to Southern Israel. Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye.
Date: July 1, 2008
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Kassam Rocket Hits Sderot Shaking Cease-Fire Ag...
Sderot residents inspect the damage to a vacant house in that was struck by a Palestinian Kassam rocket in Sderot City, Israel on Tuesday June 24, 2008. Residents of Israel\'s south were rattled to hear the \'Color Red\' rocket alert sirens blare throughout their towns twice on Tuesday evening as two Qassam rockets crashed in near Sderot. No injuries or damage were reported. The Color Red alert preceded the landings. A mortar fired by Palestinian gunmen in Gaza late Monday night landed in Israel\'s western Negev region. The shell landed in an open area in close proximity to a community, but no injuries or damage were reported. The incident was the first breach of the ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and armed Palestinian groups in the Strip, which went into effect Thursday morning. Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye.
Date: June 24, 2008
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Israel Reopens Gaza Crossings
Damage left from the last mortar shell attack by Palestinian militants at Erez crossing, Israel on Sunday June 22, 2008. Karni and Erez crossings reopened for the entering of humanitarian supplies today as part of the truce deal between Israel and the Palestinian terror groups. The parents of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Schalit petitioned the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem Saturday evening block a truce deal with Hamas as long as their son remains in captivity. Noam and Aviva Schalit petitioned the court claiming that part of the deal included opening the Gaza Strip\'s crossings. They said this would allow their son\'s captors to smuggle him out and harm efforts to free him. Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye.
Date: June 22, 2008
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