2024: Israel’s year in photos December 27, 2024Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov and Shlomi Ziv aboard the IDF helicopter. (Twitter Screenshot)(Twitter Screenshot)2024: Israel’s year in photosAs 2024 comes to an end, here is a selection of the most memorable photos of an eventful year taken by The Press Service of Israel’s photographers across the country.By Pesach Benson, TPSIsraeli army reservists training in the Golan Heights on Jan. 4, 2024. Photo by Yoav Dudkevitch/TPSWorshipper light candles inside Jaffa’s St. Peter’s Russian Orthodox Church as Israel’s Orthodox Christian communities celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7, 2024. Photo by Eitan Elhadez-Barak/TPSA rare double rainbow over the Jezreel Valley on Feb. 4, 2024. The phenomenon usually occurs when the sun is positioned at a low angle in the sky during a rain shower. Photo by Pini Shvartzman/TPSA helicopter evacuates Israelis injured in a car accident near the town of Pedu’el in Samaria on Feb. 20, 2024. Photo by Batya Sharabi/TPSAn Israeli tank fires at a Hamas position in the southern Gaza area of Khan Yunis on March 12, 2024. Photo by Elad Zagman/TPS-ILPalestinians in central Gaza loot a convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian aid on May 18, 2024. Photo by Majdi Fathi/TPS-ILFires sparked by Hezbollah rockets and drones rage in the area of Kiryat Shmona on June 3, 2024. Photo by Erez Ben Simon/TPS-ILAn Israeli cannon fires at a Hamas position in central Gaza in June 2024. Photo by TPS-ILThe scene of a Hezbollah rocket strike on a soccer field in Majdal Shams which killed 12 Druze youth and injured more than 30 on July 28, 2024. Photo by Erez Ben Simon/TPS-ILThe Perseid meteor shower as seen in Nahal Paran in Israel’s southern Negev region on Aug. 8, 2024. Photo by Adele Raemer/TPS-ILIsrael’s Banias Nature Reserve in the Golan Heights damaged by fires caused by Hezbollah rocket and drone barrages on Aug. 8, 2024. Photo by Shay Yadel El Porat/TPS-ILIsraeli soldiers in southern Lebanon in September 2024. Photo by Eytan Schweber/TPS-ILPalestinian children are vaccinated against polio, at a United Nations healthcare center in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on Sept. 1, 2024. To facilitate vaccinations, Israel designated a humanitarian corridor and safe areas. Photo by Majdi Fathi/TPS-ILMissiles seen over Jerusalem during an Iranian barrage on Oct. 1, 2024. Photo by TPS-ILHaifa Bay as Hezbollah fired 100 missiles during the afternoon of October 8, 2024, the heaviest barrage of the war. Photo by Antony Hershko/TPS-ILIsraelis in Tel Aviv protest the dismissal of Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Nov. 5, 2024. Photo by Gideon Markowicz/TPS-ILYoav Galant salutes Israel’s military forces at the end of a press conference in Tel Aviv following his dismissal as Defense Minister on Nov. 5, 2024. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/TPS-ILEmergency teams in Bnei Brak where falling fragments from an intercepted Hezbollah injured five people and started fires on Nov. 18, 2024. Photo by Shimon Baruch/TPS-ILIsraeli forces on the Syrian side of Mt. Hermon in the Golan Heights on Dec. 9, 2024. Israel, in coordination with UN observers, took control of the buffer zone to prevent Syrian rebels from advancing on the border. Photo by TPS-ILIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court to give testimony in his corruption trial on Dec. 16, 2024. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/TPS-ILShips waiting to be unloaded at the entrance to the port of Haifa on Dec. 17, 2024. Photo by Sharon Leibel/TPS-IL 2024GazaIDFpicturesWar
