
An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish family lights Hanukkah candles in Mea Shearim neighbourhood in Jerusalem December 14, 2009


An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man stands in front a menorah on the third eve of Hanukkah, at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site in Jerusalem's old city, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009

Israeli rightwingers and settlers demonstrate in the center of Jerusalem against the Israeli government's decision last month to freeze construction of new houses in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, Wed Dec. 9, 2009


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009

Israel's military chief Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, center, watches President Shimon Peres, right, and a soldier light the menorah on the fourth eve of Hanukkah, in an army base near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, Monday Dec. 14

A Palestinian Hamas militant is pictured during an anti-Israel rally in Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, Sunday Dec. 13

A Palestinian man shows charred remains from a fire that burned holy books in a mosque in the West Bank village of Yasuf south of Nablus, Friday, Dec. 11, 2009

Palestinian students crowd outside a mosque that was vandalized by Jewish settlers on Friday, during a demonstration in the West Bank village of Yasuf, near Nablus, Sunday, Dec.13, 2009

Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger, center, visits the West Bank village of Yasuf, near Nablus, where the local mosque was vandalized last Friday, Monday, Dec.14, 2009

Israel's Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger stands with Salfit Governor Munir Abboushi after his visit to a vandalised mosque in the West Bank village of Yasuf near Nablus December 14, 2009

Yona Metzger, the Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel shakes hands with a Palestinian security officer in the West Bank village of Yasuf near Nablus, Monday, Dec. 14, 2009

Palestinian youths throw stones at Israeli army jeeps as they patrol in the West Bank village of Yasuf, near Nablus, Monday, Dec. 14, 2009

Israeli border police officers stand guard as Palestinian men pray in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, Friday, Dec. 11, 2009

An Israeli soldier from a paratroopers unit takes part in a military exercise in the Golan Heights near the northern town of Katzrin, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009

An Italian artist from the Madonnari Neapolitan School works on a painting of Jesus Christ, outside the Church of the Nativity in the biblical West Bank city of Bethlehem, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009

A Palestinian woman lights a candle in the Church of the Nativity, the site revered as the birthplace of Jesus, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem November 29, 2009

A nun looks at a painting after Catholic mass on the first Sunday of Advent at the Church of St. Catherine, which is connected to the Church of the Nativity, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem November 29, 2009

Israel's Civil Administration Bethlehem DCO Commander Lt.Colonel Eyad Sirhan meets with representatives of Churches in the West Bank and Jerusalem in an effort to coordinate the upcoming Christmas events at a military base near the the West Bank Jewish settlement of Alon Shvut. Monday, Dec. 14, 2009



A Gilad Shalit sticker is seen near a protest tent outside Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009

Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009, a Palestinian in a wheel chair waits inside a newly built passageway
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