“Oded Balilty is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Israeli photographer. Born and raised in Jerusalem, he began his career as a photographer for the Israeli army magazine Bamahane. In 2002, at the height of the second Palestinian uprising, he joined The Associated Press. In 2007, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of a lone Jewish settler confronting Israeli security officers during the evacuation of a West Bank settlement outpost. He is the first and only Israeli photographer to receive the Pulitzer Prize. From 2007-2008, he was based in Beijing for AP. Balilty lives in Tel Aviv and photographs current events and documentary features for AP in Israel, the Palestinian Territories, and around the world”. – Wikipedia

An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish girl wears a plastic cover to protect her from the smoke as others burn leavened items in a final preparation before the Passover holiday, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, April 8, 2009. (Photo by Oded Balilty/AP Photo)

Nuns of the congregation of Mother Teresa of Calcuta pray inside the Grotto, on the site where Christians believe Jesus was born, within the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem Friday, December 23, 2005. (Photo by Oded Balilty/AP Photo)

Israeli troops operate in the northern Gaza Strip Friday, July 7, 2006. (Photo by Oded Balilty/AP Photo)

A Palestinian youth uses a sling-shot to hurl a stone at Israel soldiers during a demonstration against the construction of Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank town of Bil'in, Friday, October 21, 2005. (Photo by Oded Balilty/AP Photo)

A gust of wind blows a nun's veil as she stands in front of St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Thursday, March 14, 2013. (Photo by Oded Balilty/AP Photo)

A Jewish settler struggles with an Israeli security officer during clashes that erupted as authorities evacuated the West Bank settlement outpost of Amona, east of the Palestinian town of Ramallah, in this February 1, 2006, file photo. (Photo by Oded Balilty/AP Photo)

An Israeli Arab man swims with a horse in the Mediterranean Sea off the beach in Tel Aviv, Israel, the third day of Eid al-Fitr, Tuesday, August 21, 2012. (Photo by Oded Balilty/AP Photo)

Ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Hassidic sect Vizhnitz gather on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean sea as they participate in a Tashlich ceremony in Herzeliya, Israel, Thursday, September 12, 2013. (Photo by Oded Balilty/AP Photo)

Ultra-Orthodox Jews stand next to bonfires during Lag Ba'Omer celebrations to commemorate the end of a plague said to have decimated Jews in Roman times, in Bnei Brak, Israel, Wednesday, May 9, 2012. (Photo by Oded Balilty/AP Photo)

In this December 6, 2012 photo, an employee of the Mizra pork factory poses with a pig's head in a refrigerated warehouse in Kibbutz Mizra, northern Israel. The million-strong Soviet immigrant community has increased customer demand for pork in the country, a non-kosher food rarely eaten by Israeli Jews. (Photo by Oded Balilty/AP Photo)

Ukrainian students try on gas masks as part of a safety drill in a school in Rudniya, just outside the Chernobyl contamination zone, Monday, April 3, 2006. (Photo by Oded Balilty/AP Photo)

Ultra-orthodox Jewish men pray as they gather for the mourning ritual of Tisha B'Av at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in Jerusalem's Old City, early Sunday, July 29, 2012. (Photo by Oded Balilty/AP Photo)

A costume shop employee, dressed as batman, pulls a cart with a mannequin to advertise the shop, ahead of the upcoming Jewish holiday of Purim, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, February 10, 2013. (Photo by Oded Balilty/AP Photo)

A woman mourns over the body of her relative in Hanwang town, in China's southwest Sichuan province, on Friday, May 16, 2008. (Photo by Oded Balilty/AP Photo)

An Ultra Orthodox Jewish man seen through a net during Siyum Ha’Shas, a celebration marking the completion of the learning cycle of the Babylonian Talmud, a collection of oral Jewish laws and traditions passed down from generation to generation, in Jerusalem, Tuesday, July 31, 2012. Each of the Talmud’s 2711 pages is studied in sequence, one day at a time, in a process that lasts about of a seven and a half years. More than 10,000 people attended in the event. (Photo by Oded Balilty/AP Photo)