Children are sometimes allowed to smoke during the Purim celebrations under the excuse of having fun. For more on smoking and drinking during Purim please visit "the people of Mea Shaerim" under the "meet the people" gallery. Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, Israel, 2012.
Ajdot 18 is currently doing her military service with the IDF. She waits for the bus early in the morning at the bus station in the Arab town of Akko. From here she will travel buy public bus to the border with Lebanon where she will carry out observation duties on the hostile neighbor. Although she is required to do a minimum of two years service, Ajdot would like to go for promotion and serve for an extra two years. Akko, Israel, 2012.
No one controls the main entrance at the Church of the Holy Sepulchreare. In 1192, Saladin assigned responsibility for it to the Muslim Nuseibeh family. The Joudeh Al-Goudia family were entrusted as custodian to the keys of the Holy Sepulchre by the Ottomans few hundred years later, and both families now share the responsibility. This arrangement has persisted into modern times. Church of the Holy Sepulchreare, Jerusalem, Israel, 2012.
