Still Playing with Fire After All These Years, photograph by Joshua Miller.On the beach in Tel Aviv, Israel, a fire-juggler pauses to listen to a didjeridoo.
Flames from fire-performers on the beach light up the Tel Aviv night.
For other photos of fire-performers on the beach of Tel Aviv, click “more.”
A man shows off his fire-spinning skills in an impromptu performance at a large street party in Tel Aviv, Israel on Yom Ha’atzmaout, Israeli Independence Day. Thousands of people descended on Florentin Street in southern Tel Aviv for a boisterous party in the street that pulsed on, techno music thumping, until the early hours of the morning. All over Israel people celebrate that their country, against all odds, has survived — and prospered — for 59 years.
Two other photos from the street party: 
The Palestinian village of Faqu’a, as seen from Har Barkan, is pictured with the controversial separation fence in the foreground. Faqu’a, a village with about 3,200 residents, is located in the northeast corner of the West Bank. (For a larger version of this photo, click here. For a more detailed photograph of a nearby portion of the separation fence, click here.)
For an interesting take on the separation fence, check out this Op-Ed in the New York Times.
A cow and a bird stand next to each other near rows of crops on Moshav Gan Ner, about five miles southeast of Afula, Israel.
A gust of wind blows blades of grass near Israel’s border with Lebanon, at Hok Akhziv Nature Reserve near Rosh Hanikra, Israel.
